Ubuntu
kde-workspace package

transition from plymouth to kdm not smooth

Bug #553567 reported by Harald Sitter on 2010-04-01

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	kde-workspace (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: kdebase-workspace

The transition from plymouth to kdm/autologin-ksplash is not smooth. It seems as if it is spending some times on a TTY instead of going to kdm right away.

What is expected is that plymouth switches directly to kdm (and in consequence ksplash if autologin is turned on) without first showing some TTY screen.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: kdm 4:4.4.2-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-18.27-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-18-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Apr 1 22:41:35 2010
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100318)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
LANG=de_AT.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: kdebase-workspace

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Related branches

lp:~kubuntu-packagers/kubuntu-packaging/kde-workspace

lp:ubuntu/raring-proposed/kde-workspace

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Harald Sitter (apachelogger) wrote on 2010-04-01:

Dependencies.txt Edit (6.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Changed in kdebase-workspace (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Harald Sitter (apachelogger)
importance:	Undecided → Medium
milestone:	none → ubuntu-10.04
status:	New → Confirmed

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KBios (kbios) wrote on 2010-05-17:

It seems that kdm ignores X option "nr" if autologin is enabled. I looked at both kdm source and plymouth transition patch but it's quite complex there.

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KBios (kbios) wrote on 2010-10-29:

Still present on Maverick and kde 4.5 (intel gpu).

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Removed by request (removed1836289) wrote on 2011-04-21:

Still a major issue in natty. Fedora closed this bug a while back:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=659684
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=660461

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george panta (adgeruy) wrote on 2011-08-19:

kdm-plymouth-autologin.patch Edit (702 bytes, text/plain)

Hello, I believe I have solved this bug. (Using Archlinux but it should of course be applicable to any distro).

I have edited my /usr/bin/startkde and I believe that accordingly one should patch startkde.cmake in the kde-workspace source tarball.

You have to comment lines 32, 33, 34 ie:

if test -z "$XDM_MANAGED" || echo "$XDM_MANAGED" | grep ",auto" > /dev/null; then
xsetroot -solid "#000000"
fi

Also attaching a patch to kde-workspace-4.7.0.

I do not believe this has any implications however maybe some corner case could need it, so I do not know if the patch is "upstream-able". :)

Brian Murray (brian-murray) on 2011-08-20

tags:

added: patch

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KBios (kbios) wrote on 2011-09-11:

Thanks! This worked also for me (still on KDE 4.4)

Harald Sitter (apachelogger) on 2011-10-02

affects:	kdebase-workspace (Ubuntu) → kde-workspace (Ubuntu)
Changed in kde-workspace (Ubuntu):
milestone:	ubuntu-10.04 → none

Harald Sitter (apachelogger) on 2012-11-02

Changed in kde-workspace (Ubuntu):
assignee:	Harald Sitter (apachelogger) → nobody

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-12-23:

This bug was fixed in the package kde-workspace - 4:4.9.95-0ubuntu1

---------------
kde-workspace (4:4.9.95-0ubuntu1) raring; urgency=low

[ Jonathan Riddell ]
* New upstream RC release

  [ Harald Sitter ]
  * Drop kubuntu_kdm_plymouth_transition.diff as discussed on the mailing
    list. Since we do not use KDM by default anymore and since the patch
    introduces issues that are not present with a vanilla KDM.
    LP: #886946, #578732, #553567
  * Update kdm.upstart script to quit-wait-sleep on plymouth regardless of
    the runlevel.

[ Rohan Garg ]
* Update install files
-- Jonathan Riddell <email address hidden> Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:22:32 +0000