Comment 77 for bug 969489
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| Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) wrote Re: [Bug 969489] Re: lightdm tries (and fails) to start too early? | #77 |
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Excerpts from bwat47's message of 2013-07-16 22:02:03 UTC:
> respawn workaround works fine here, but frankly I find it troubling that
> such a severe issue has gone unfixed for so long... Will we ever get an
> official update that fixes this? New users shouldn't be expected to edit
> config files just to get their system to boot correctly. This type of
> bug should never even make it out of a beta release, and definitely
> shouldn't go unfixed in multiple "stable" releases.
>
First, this is a race. Races are really hard problems to reproduce and
solve reliably.
Second, I'm pretty sure this is a hardware specific problem caused
by drivers lying to the system about the state of the hardware, and
subsequently dying when actually asked to function. This is only exposed
on systems that boot extremely fast.
Please be patient, it has been looked at by some of the brightest minds
in Ubuntu, and has thus far remained a bit of a mystery.