Comment 3 for bug 459376

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 459376] Re: resume menu item doesn't start gdm

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:41:08AM -0000, Michael Vogt wrote:
> The problem is that the gdm upstart file has:

> script
> ...
> # Check kernel command-line for inhibitors
> for ARG in $(cat /proc/cmdline)
> do
> case "${ARG}" in
> text|-s|s|S|single)
> exit 0
> ;;
> esac
> done
> ...
> end script

This is reported as bug #436936.

> Combined with friendly-recovery just doing a "exit" on resume. To fix we
> need to change the upstart script and make friendly recovery emit that we
> are now resuming.

I'm not convinced that's the best thing to do architecture-wise, but it may
be necessary as a solution for karmic.

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