Comment 239 for bug 554172

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Andy Whitcroft (apw) wrote : Re: system services not starting at boot

It should be noted that the commentary is #238 is from the fix which eliminated that error, not introducing that error. This fix is also already applied to both Lucid and Maverick kernels.

commit f278a2f7bbc2239f479eaf63d0b3ae573b1d746c
Author: Dave Young <email address hidden>
Date: Sun Sep 27 16:00:42 2009 +0000

    tty: Fix regressions caused by commit b50989dc

    The following commit made console open fails while booting:

        commit b50989dc444599c8b21edc23536fc305f4e9b7d5
        Author: Alan Cox <email address hidden>
        Date: Sat Sep 19 13:13:22 2009 -0700

        tty: make the kref destructor occur asynchronously

    Due to tty release routines run in a workqueue now, error like the
    following will be reported while booting:
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    Fix it as per the following Alan's suggestion:
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