Whew, after some very puzzling results I finally figured out what the problem was.
When I ran the patch, I included the -b option to create a backup of the original file; I had never used patch before, so I wanted to make sure I could get the original back in case I messed things up somehow. This created a file called tty1.orig in /etc/event.d, along with the patched version of tty1. After much fun and games, I finally figured out something that you guys probably already know: the computer was reading anything that started with "tty1", regardless of its ending. (I realized this after I accidentally applied the patch to an already- patched version of tty1 and it created a file called tty1.rej, consisting of the parts it couldn't insert; on the next boot I saw an error message about not being able to interpret tty1.rej.) So once I renamed my backup version of tty1 to something else that didn't start with tty1, and deleted tty1.rej, the patched version worked flawlessly. The bootup looks good, and the login doesn't appear until after all the scripts are run. Thanks for coming up with this patch! -- startup messages continue on screen after first login prompt appears https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/65230 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
