On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 01:12 +0000, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > Scott's latest patch to gdm checks to see if plymouth's running and if it is > whether it has the active vt, and if it does, starts gdm. If it doesn't have > the active vt, it kills plymouth and starts gdm. > The other part of the patch (which is just as important, btw) is that after X has been started by gdm, it runs plymouth quit --retain-splash. This means "all is well, now you can quit".
If X fails to start, it runs just plymouth quit; this means "X failed, please clean up VT7 and restore the text console". KDM really should be doing the exact same transition. Jonathan had a work item which he's marked DONE, I guess it isn't. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com -- boot hangs on splash screen, doesn't switch to KDM https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/538524 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to kdebase-workspace in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
