Hya,

System
Debian jessie (amd64), with xfce4.
No display manager (gdm, xdm or whatever) installed. So, login to console (command line) and "startx". So, after logging out xfce4 (via logout button on a panel), I am supposed to see command line prompt on console.

Problem
After logging out xfce4, I get login prompt, (I am logged out!!)

What I did
1. I cleared up .config/xfce4-session, as suggested by this thread, which did not work.
2. I cleaned up panel items and made them from scratch. -- did not work either.

Bingo
I cleaned up contents of .config/xfce4/panel/ and rebuild panels again.

Closing remark
If anybody else runs into same situation, try above. If it it does not work, try something else.

Have a happy Penguin!

Hya,

Self reply.

Correction!!

The solution(?) above worked for several days, then same problem again!!

Sorry for an incorrect post.

cheers

I don't see the problem.
If you don't want to be logged out, then don't log out!

Hya,

I guess my description was not clear enough. Apology

After logging out xfce (finishing xfce session), I am supposed to see command line prompt on console. However, what I get is lonin prompt on console, not command line prompt.

My usage of the term "logout" was ambiguous.

I should have said

After finishing xfce4 (via xfce4 logout command), I am logged out from login shell.

I regret any confusion I made.

cheers

I'm not sure I understand your problem. If you are logged into an x-session like xfce4 and then log out your are not automatically logged into a tty. It's the same as if you are logged into a tty and then start an x-session you are not automatically logged in. Also I can be simultaneously logged in as root on one tty and and a normal user on my x-session. But as I said, maybe I don't understand your problem.
jdk

Hya

jdkaye:
I guess you understood.

This is what I get.
1. login to a tty (console). -> I have my shell prompt.
2. start xfce4 session. do whatever I have to do.
3. finish xfce4 session.
4. I get a login prompt on my console. (Where is my login shell??)

At step 4, I am supposed to see my shell prompt.


cheers.

Do you use the Ctl-Alt keys to move from the Gui to the tty? For example, I am now logged in to my gui (KDE) but not logged into any tty(1-6). I hit ctl-alt F1 and I get a black screen with the following text:
If I then hit ctl-alt-F7 I am back to my KDE session still logged in since I never logged out from it.
jdk

Hya,

I do not use ctl-alt-Fn to switch tty. I simply finish xfce session.

In that case it you are not logged into anything when you log out of your xfce session (assuming you didn't start your xfce session via a tty). This means you don't have a problem. This behaviour is normal. Try using your ctl-alt-Fn keys to switch to a tty. You will see that logging in or out of one of them has no impact on your xfce session. You get back via ctl-alt-F7
jdk

Hya,

I guess something is wrong with that penguin.

Many wired things happen.
This original problem,
kernel freeze after xfce session (unable to do anything including remote access),
first login console after boot is not tty1, (it is a kind of random, tty3, tty2...)
remote file access error.

One possibility is heat related issue, another possibility is logic board related (memory??), ....

Thanks for your attention.