On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 05:39:07PM -0000, William Pietri wrote: > Aesthetically, making something vital (UI startup) depend on something > decorative (splash screens) seems odd. Perhaps future versions of this > can be made more robust.
To clarify, plymouth is not "merely decorative". It is the boot-time interface used for interacting with the user regarding any boot problems; so it's always present, and it needs to hand off control of the console reliably to lightdm, which means that the lightdm job can't start until it knows for sure plymouth has started up. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/982889 Title: X trying to start before plymouth has finished using the drm driver To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/oem-priority/+bug/982889/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
