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Bug 681340 - [PATCH] Bind gdm to VT1 unconditionally
[PATCH] Bind gdm to VT1 unconditionally
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 511168
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-08-06 23:09 UTC by Lennart Poettering
Modified: 2012-08-07 01:17 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
the patch (24.97 KB, patch)
2012-08-06 23:09 UTC, Lennart Poettering 		none Details | Review

Description Lennart Poettering 2012-08-06 23:09:59 UTC 
Created attachment 220501 [details] [review]
the patch

The old logic of allocating the first free VT is racy since more parallelized init systems might print on /dev/console which is already sufficient to cause the VT to be busy and hence results in undeterministic VT assignments.

See attachment and https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DisplayManagerRework
Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2012-08-06 23:10:16 UTC 
Oh, this patch applies on top of https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=681339
Comment 2 Ray Strode [halfline] 2012-08-07 01:17:49 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 511168 ***