Comment 115 for bug 439138

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Tom Jaeger (thjaeger) wrote : Re: [Bug 439138] Re: [karmic] Xorg 100% CPU utilization -- only after first login

Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 07:05:18PM -0000, Tom Jaeger wrote:
>> Now if someone familiar with the cryptsetup package could explain why it
>> needs console ownership, we could actually get anywhere.
>
> Because it needs to be able to prompt users for passphrases. How does
> knowing that bring us any closer to solving this bug?

Okay, so the job must complete before X is started then anyway[*]. Can
someone please remind me again why making gdm/kdm depend on cryptsetup
or even executing cryptsetup before anything else is not a solution?

[*] actually, this is true only in the minority of cases where that
there are encrypted disks that need to be mounted on startup.