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Re: [Bug 625239] Re: Pressing Enter crashes both X and plymouth in graphical mode

 

On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 20:24 +0000, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Bilal,
> 
> X sends no requests at all to plymouth.  The display manager (gdm, kdm,
> etc) does this; and each of these DMs are patched in Ubuntu to send
> plymouth a quit request at the appropriate time.  If you are not using
> the Ubuntu 10.04 packages for the display manager

FYI I am using Maverick with all updates installed.

> 
> plymouth is NOT supposed to quit on 'deactivate' requests, and any patch
> to make it do this would be rejected.
> 
> Anyway, if pressing enter causes X to exit, the problem is most
> specifically *not* a result of plymouth capturing and responding to
> these keypresses; it's almost certainly a result of X being started on
> the wrong VT, one which already has a getty running on it.  What VT is X
> listed as running on in a process list when this happens?  (You'll want
> to switch to another VT and log in on the console to check this.)
>

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Pressing Enter crashes both X and plymouth in graphical mode
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/625239
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