gdm does not start X unless remove "tty-device-added KERNEL=tty7" from upstart gdm.conf
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
gdm (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Scott James Remnant (Canonical) | ||
Lucid |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Scott James Remnant (Canonical) |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gdm
[Problem]
gdm does not start up unless I remove the line " and tty-device-added KERNEL=tty7" from /etc/init/gdm.conf
[Background]
This is an Insprion 1420 I did a fresh install of the Karmic Beta on, updated to Karmic Release a few weeks ago, and just now upgraded it to Lucid by doing s/karmic/lucid/ in /etc/apt/
On rebooting, xsplash showed the grey ubuntu logo, this faded out and I found myself at the console login prompt. X started up fine via startx, and gdm fired up fine via service gdm start. I rebooted a second time and again was left at the console with no evidence gdm was trying to start.
I noticed that hitting ctrl-alt-f7 did not perform a vt switch, so on a hunch I commented out one line in gdm.conf:
#start on (filesystem
# and tty-device-added KERNEL=tty7
# and (graphics-
start on (filesystem
and (graphics-
I don't know what that line means or why removing it made my system work. Hope this helps give a clue.
Related branches
Changed in gdm (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
assignee: | nobody → Ubuntu Desktop (ubuntu-desktop) |
Changed in gdm (Ubuntu Lucid): | |
milestone: | none → lucid-alpha-1 |
Changed in gdm (Ubuntu Lucid): | |
milestone: | lucid-alpha-1 → lucid-alpha-2 |
Changed in gdm (Ubuntu Lucid): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
Scott kindly agreed to debug this next week, he has some idea what's actually going wrong here.