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nvidia-graphics-drivers package

  1. Bug #625239
  2. Comment #152

Comment 152 for bug 625239

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 625239] Re: X starts on wrong tty because gdm starts before nvidia driver is ready

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 07:38:49PM -0000, Seth wrote:
> > This could be brittle, because all this could do
> > is reduce the time window for the race condition to happen
> I can confirm my suspicion to be right because after - granted: many-
> some reboots I saw the log message again in successive reboots:

> /var/log/syslog:Sep 14 20:38:39 localhost gdm-binary[984]: WARNING:
> GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.695752 seconds
> /var/log/syslog:Sep 14 20:42:04 localhost gdm-binary[1060]: WARNING:
> GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.198205 seconds

Can you include the gdm/X logs from these sessions, showing why it reset so
quickly - just to be absolutely certain of what we're seeing?

> This was running _with_ my fixed gdm package, but from the analysis we
> know that in this case the X desktop would have ended up shared with a
> getty.

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