GDM makes console jump to X on upgrades.

Bug #7804 reported by Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
8
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gdm
Fix Released
Unknown
gdm (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Sebastien Bacher

Bug Description

if a user is upgrading on console, and he is not logged in on X, gdm will
restart and switch from console to X. This behaviour is really really annoying,
specially because the console buffer is lost.

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Thom May (thombot) wrote :

Don't see how this is a major bug, dude :-)
Sure, it's an irritation, but no more than that.

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In , Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote : gdm: switch from the console to gdm on upgrades

Package: gdm
Severity: minor

- start the box
- switch to a real console
- login and upgrade gdm ("apt-get install --reinstall gdm" is enough to
get the bug)
=> the screen is switched to gdm

This can be annoying because the console switch break the scrolling in
the real console, so it could be better to stay on the console.

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In , Ryan Murray (rmurray) wrote : tagging 289020, tagging 287725, tagging 300738, tagging 299300

# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.8.14
tags 289020 pending
tags 287725 pending
tags 300738 pending
tags 299300 pending

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In , Ryan Murray (rmurray) wrote : tagging 289020

# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.8.14
tags 289020 - pending

Changed in gdm:
status: Unknown → Unconfirmed
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Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

 Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

Changed in gdm:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Closing this bubg since there was no reply for a month and I am not able to reproduce this. Thanks.

Changed in gdm:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
Changed in gdm:
status: New → Fix Released
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