[Bug 665195] Re: plymouthd alive when umountroot runs (prevents clean unmount)

2011-10-02 Thread Harald Sitter
** Package changed: kdebase-workspace (Ubuntu) => kde-workspace (Ubuntu) -- 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/665195 Title: plymouthd alive when umountroot runs (prevents cle

[Bug 665195] Re: plymouthd alive when umountroot runs (prevents clean unmount)

2010-10-22 Thread Steve Langasek
It's not unpredictable; it just requires that, once the gdm or kdm job starts, it takes care of stopping plymouth before it exits. There is no simpler design that satisfies the boot-time requirements. -- plymouthd alive when umountroot runs (prevents clean unmount) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bug

[Bug 665195] Re: plymouthd alive when umountroot runs (prevents clean unmount)

2010-10-22 Thread Dan Muresan
I'm getting the feeling that the mechanism used to keep plymouth up / down appropriately AND avoid a VT change all the while is brittle; there are too many unpredictable interactions between plymouth, plymouth-stop, [gkx]dm and "rc*.d stop". That's why I filed against plymouth in the first place -

[Bug 665195] Re: plymouthd alive when umountroot runs (prevents clean unmount)

2010-10-22 Thread Steve Langasek
someone should check whether this also affects kdm - it probably does. -- plymouthd alive when umountroot runs (prevents clean unmount) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/665195 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm in ubuntu.

[Bug 665195] Re: plymouthd alive when umountroot runs (prevents clean unmount)

2010-10-22 Thread Steve Langasek
Ah, sorry for misreading. The thing is that plymouthd is supposed to be run *twice* on the system, once at startup and once at shutdown. I assumed that what you were seeing was a plymouthd process running at shutdown like it's supposed to; the open /var/log/boot.log (and the --mode=boot argument