Comment 46 for bug 522692

I can reproduce it pressing 2 on an Italian QWERTY, so I think it's
definitely a 2 :)

On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 14:07, Martin Karlsson <email address hidden>wrote:

> Does that character happen to be a 2 or an @? :) There's a related bug
> #522554 where that happens, it's marked as a duplicate of this bug.
>
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> Pressing <Enter> key causes gdm to restart on first boot
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/522692
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> Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: plymouth
>
> Pressing the enter key sometime during the first X session after boot will
> kill X and gdm will restart. Subsequent logins will work fine. On
> investigation, this occurs because X is being sent SIGQUIT (see
> http://paste.ubuntu.com/382615/ - using trace-signal.ko). After X is
> killed it starts on a different VT and will no longer be sent SIGQUIT when
> pressing enter.
>
> It seems that other distributions are working around this by starting X on
> a different VT to plymouth.
>
> Original description:
> Pressing the enter key causes the whole system to freeze. The system still
> respond to ssh.
>
> It does not happen on every boot, but a visible screen corruption in the
> top left side of the screen is a symptom that the crash will happen in that
> session.
>
> Note: This is not a duplicate of bug #516412 as stated by Steve Langasek in
> the comment #78 there.
>
> WORKAROUND (thanks to Simon Baconnais): kill X by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Print+K
> fixes the problem until the next reboot. Some also may want to remove the
> plymouth package until this bug is fixed.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> CheckboxSubmission: 56f6196d6c59b6b05a94181cc3955a09
> CheckboxSystem: c4d84cd56dc0e1c868ed7fe87c94fd31
> Date: Tue Feb 16 16:15:36 2010
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> Package: plymouth 0.8.0~-10
> ProcEnviron:
> LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-9.13-generic
> SourcePackage: plymouth
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-9-generic i686
>
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> Architecture: i386
> CheckboxSubmission: 56f6196d6c59b6b05a94181cc3955a09
> CheckboxSystem: c4d84cd56dc0e1c868ed7fe87c94fd31
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> MachineType: LG Electronics E200-A.CP29B
> Package: plymouth 0.8.0~-10ubuntu1
> PackageArchitecture: i386
> ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-9-generic
> root=UUID=f1e83727-9d0c-4969-8f3c-f5dd6fa01dbc ro quiet splash
> ProcCmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-9-generic
> root=UUID=f1e83727-9d0c-4969-8f3c-f5dd6fa01dbc ro quiet splash
> ProcEnviron:
> LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcFB: 0 VGA16 VGA
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-9.13-generic
> Tags: lucid
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-9-generic i686
> UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout fuse lpadmin plugdev sambashare
> dmi.bios.date: 10/02/2007
> dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
> dmi.bios.version: ELBRSF0C
> dmi.board.name: Lhotse-II
> dmi.board.vendor: LG Electronics Inc.
> dmi.board.version: Rev0.4b
> dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
> dmi.chassis.type: 1
> dmi.chassis.vendor: LG Electronics Inc.
> dmi.chassis.version: N/A
> dmi.modalias:
> dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologiesLTD:bvrELBRSF0C:bd10/02/2007:svnLGElectronics:pnE200-A.CP29B:pvr0100:rvnLGElectronicsInc.:rnLhotse-II:rvrRev0.4b:cvnLGElectronicsInc.:ct1:cvrN/A:
> dmi.product.name: E200-A.CP29B
> dmi.product.version: 0100
> dmi.sys.vendor: LG Electronics
>
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