Excerpts from Ivo Anjo's message of 2013-07-22 16:39:16 UTC: > > I have not seen data that proves it has 0 bad effects. I'd suspect that > > it would have a minor impact on time between power-on and login for > > those users who are not affected, but I also have no data on that either. > > Sorry... say what!? I will just quote it for you, from canonical's upstart > documentation: > http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#respawn > "6.26 respawn > Without this stanza, a job that exits quietly transitions into the > stop/waiting state, no matter how it exited. > With this stanza, whenever the main script/exec exits, without the goal of > the job having been changed to stop, the job will be started again." > > So please don't make up suppositions and compare them to facts. >
Ease up, we're all working together right? Respawn is a mitigation strategy and I actually thought that was in the file already. Good idea to just add it, though it will fail to help if it respawns too fast. The workaround I thought you were referring to was changing the "start on". Perhaps open a second bug, reference this one, and submit a patch? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/969489 Title: lightdm tries (and fails) to start too early? Status in Upstart: New Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Sometimes lightdm comes up fine. Other times it appears to fail. x-0.log shows it tried to load 'nv' (rather than 'nvidia' which is what actually exists). When I then log into console and 'start lightdm', it comes up fine (on :1). I've not had it come up ok today, so I don't know if, when it comes up fine, it starts on :0. No idea if the lightdm.conf needs a change to 'start on'clause, or if this is just a case of a bad shipped config file (for module 'nv'). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: lightdm 1.1.9-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.33-generic 3.2.12 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Mar 30 13:40:27 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120323) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/upstart/+bug/969489/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
