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kdebase-workspace package

  1. Bug #538524
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 538524

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote : Re: [Bug 538524] Re: boot hangs on splash screen, doesn't switch to KDM

On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 01:12 +0000, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:

> Scott's latest patch to gdm checks to see if plymouth's running and if it is
> whether it has the active vt, and if it does, starts gdm. If it doesn't have
> the active vt, it kills plymouth and starts gdm.
>
The other part of the patch (which is just as important, btw) is that
after X has been started by gdm, it runs plymouth quit --retain-splash.
This means "all is well, now you can quit".

If X fails to start, it runs just plymouth quit; this means "X failed,
please clean up VT7 and restore the text console".

KDM really should be doing the exact same transition. Jonathan had a
work item which he's marked DONE, I guess it isn't.

Scott
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