Ubuntu
gdm package

  1. Bug #396226
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 396226

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote :

I suspect that what is going on is:

 - getty starts on tty1
 - X starts on tty1
 - since they're both on the same tty, they both receive the input, but the tty is now in RAW input mode so getty receive nonsense and choses to believe a Klingon is logging in
 - getty times out the login after a period of inactivity and exits
 - Upstart respawns the tty1 getty
 - the new getty claims ownership of the console
 - X is signalled that it has lost ownership of the console and exits