[Bug 29236] Re: [Bug 29236] Re: "Failed to start X" screen on tty2

[Sami Haahtinen]

Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> The issue happens only on boot, a /etc/init.d/gdm restart doesn't
> have that issue. The same source package on Debian has no issue on
> boot. Changing S13gdm by S99gdm has no effect neither so it doens't
> seems to be a boot order issue. Does anybody has an idea of what
> could create that issue during the boot?

My best guess is that it's not about when it's started in the boot
process, but whether or not gettys are started before the dialog. the
dialog is launched in to first available tty but the tty is not locked.

my guess is that if gdm was able to lock the tty that is used to launch
the dialog so that getty would wait for it to become available, the
problem would go away.

But this is just guesswork nothing more.

- S
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"Failed to start X" screen on tty2
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/29236