I'm also afflicted by this bug, which looks like it was exacerbated by enabling bootlogd (which introduces sufficient delay to allow gdm to grab VT2 before the gettys on VT1-6 are run).
gdm isn't respecting the
FirstVT=7
VTAllocation=true
options in gdm.conf. Xorg was invoked with
/usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -dpi 96 -audit 0 -auth /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth
-nolisten tcp
It is not using the 'vtXX' option to select a VT, as documented in
Xorg(1). As a result, it is always grabbing the first available VT,
irrespective of the gdm configuration. Because of this, gdm is
vulnerable to a race between gdm starting and init forking the gettys
on init script completion.
Regards,
Roger
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