Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gdm
[Problem]
gdm does not start up unless I remove the line " and tty-device-added
KERNEL=tty7" from /etc/init/gdm.conf
[Background]
This is an Insprion 1420 I did a fresh install of the Karmic Beta on, updated
to Karmic Release a few weeks ago, and just now upgraded it to Lucid by doing
s/karmic/lucid/ in /etc/apt/sources.list and apt-get update; apt-get
dist-upgrade. There did not appear to be any errors during the upgrade.
On rebooting, xsplash showed the grey ubuntu logo, this faded out and I
found myself at the console login prompt. X started up fine via startx,
and gdm fired up fine via service gdm start. I rebooted a second time
and again was left at the console with no evidence gdm was trying to
start.
I noticed that hitting ctrl-alt-f7 did not perform a vt switch, so on a
hunch I commented out one line in gdm.conf:
#start on (filesystem
# and tty-device-added KERNEL=tty7
# and (graphics-device-added or stopped udevtrigger))
start on (filesystem
and (graphics-device-added or stopped udevtrigger))
I don't know what that line means or why removing it made my system
work. Hope this helps give a clue.
** Affects: gdm (Ubuntu)
Importance: High
Assignee: Ubuntu Desktop (ubuntu-desktop)
Status: New
** Affects: gdm (Ubuntu Lucid)
Importance: High
Assignee: Ubuntu Desktop (ubuntu-desktop)
Status: New
** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop (ubuntu-desktop)
** Also affects: gdm (Ubuntu Lucid)
Importance: High
Assignee: Ubuntu Desktop (ubuntu-desktop)
Status: New
** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu Lucid)
Milestone: None => lucid-alpha-1
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gdm does not start X unless remove "tty-device-added KERNEL=tty7" from upstart
gdm.conf
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/491162
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