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Since Ibex, opening a new session will create it on vt9, even if vt8
has been released from usplash activities at kernel boot by
console=ttyX, unless vt8 is specifically forced (through startx)
So somehow the dm seems just to assume that vt8 is permanently assigned
to usplash or the info is not reset somewhere.
Bug reproduction:
- Boot 9.04 by adding, say, console=tty4 to the kernel boot line to redirect
usplash screen messages from vt8 to vt4
- Log in new console session on tty1
- "startx -- :1 vt8" will create new graphical session on vt8
- but "startx -- :1" will create new graphical session on vt9 by "default"
This default behaviour of course also happens at "New Session" from
inside the graphical session, but there you have no option to force vt8.
The bug is however related to usplash since this does not occur if
usplash is disabled. Guess is usplash sets some info that vt8 is busy
even if console is redirected but xdm (?) does not check or resets the
info.
** Affects: gdm (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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x display manager won't open session on next free vt
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/429616
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