Light Display Manager

  1. Bug #1192051
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 1192051

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 1192051] Re: plymouthd spinning at 100% CPU after I log in

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 08:26:31PM -0000, Christopher Townsend wrote:
> I've been investigating the plymouth part of this and what I have
> discovered is that plymouth is waiting on an event from lightdm on VT
> 7(tty7) to tell it to stop. However, with Xmir, as far as I can tell,
> nothing is happening onVT 7, so the event never occurs causing plymouth
> to spin out of control.

No, it has nothing to do with signals on any VT. It's waiting for lightdm
to call 'plymouth quit [--retain-splash]', which is not VT-dependent. Is
lightdm failing to call 'plymouth quit' correctly before starting Mir?