has anyone reproduced this nvidia+gdm crash on maverick? Marking
incomplete for maverick pending confirmation.
** Description changed:
+ This bug has been repurposed based on the comments beginning at #15.
+ The original submitter's bug was a duplicate of bug #626723.
- After the system boots and the plymouth screen disappears and X starts up on
tty1 or tty2, if I press the enter key in a few minutes X shuts down and starts
again. In the session of X that comes up after this, the problem doesn't occur.
-
- The problem happens when gdm starts X and X crashes silently. gdm
- restarts X but X starts on tty1(2) as getty hasn't yet started and it
- isn't the first X start. When getty does start on tty1 it eventually
- interferes with X by setting ISIG on the tty.
-
- In the cases discussed here, the computer systems are very fast and gdm
- is starting X before the nvidia kernel module is ready to run.
-
- NOTE WELL--the original reporter had the problem that his system was starting
on tty7 and others were discussing tty1 starts here as well. At comment 30
- the problem was split with regard to tty1/tty7 starts and tty7 discussion
moved to #626723. See original description below for his original report.
+ When booting certain systems with fast disks, gdm will start up and
+ attempt to launch X before the nvidia kernel driver has fully
+ initialized. This results in gdm restarting X again, without the 'vt7'
+ argument, which may cause X's first-available-VT autoselection to pick a
+ VT between 1 and 6 because the getty jobs have not all yet started.
+ Ultimately this leads to X crashing when pressing certain keys (such as
+ Enter or '2') because the tty has been set into a mode by getty that X
+ is not prepared to handle.
** Package changed: plymouth (Ubuntu Maverick) => gdm (Ubuntu Maverick)
** Package changed: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu Maverick) => nvidia-
graphics-drivers (Ubuntu Maverick)
** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu Maverick)
Status: Invalid => Confirmed
** Also affects: gdm (Ubuntu Lucid)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu Lucid)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
This bug has been repurposed based on the comments beginning at #15.
The original submitter's bug was a duplicate of bug #626723.
When booting certain systems with fast disks, gdm will start up and
attempt to launch X before the nvidia kernel driver has fully
initialized. This results in gdm restarting X again, without the 'vt7'
argument, which may cause X's first-available-VT autoselection to pick a
VT between 1 and 6 because the getty jobs have not all yet started.
Ultimately this leads to X crashing when pressing certain keys (such as
Enter or '2') because the tty has been set into a mode by getty that X
is not prepared to handle.
+
+ This bug is currently only reported against lucid.
** Tags added: lucid
** Tags removed: maverick
** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu Lucid)
Status: New => Confirmed
** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu Maverick)
Status: Confirmed => New
** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu Maverick)
Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu Maverick)
Status: New => Incomplete
** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu Lucid)
Status: New => Confirmed
** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu Maverick)
Importance: Medium => High
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X starts on wrong tty because gdm starts before nvidia driver is ready
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/625239
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