Monitor turns off on exit, never to return
Submitted by Olivier Brunel (jjacky)
Assigned to Xorg Project Team
Description
Arch x86_64 system (though w/out systemd), starting Xorg via startx on tty.
When exiting Xorg, instead of returning to tty the monitor powers off, pressing keys or trying to switch to another tty does nothing and I can't get it back on (so a reboot is due).
This started happening w/ 1.17.3 and still does w/ 1.18.0; I finally found some time to bisect, and the offending commit is "privates: Clear screen-specific keys during CloseScreen"[1]
Indeed after reverting it, I'm now running 1.18.0 w/out problems, getting back to tty on exit. Not sure what causes the issue or how to actually fix it though, nor did I get anything in Xorg/system logs (so no segfault) when it happened.
[1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=82eb490b0a341729f25d0c42a937fe29d99da521