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gdm3 package

  1. Bug #1795637
  2. Comment #21

Comment 21 for bug 1795637

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Iain Lane (laney) wrote : Re: No login screen when booting Cosmic

I think it's like this (line numbers added)

bad:

line 423: [ply-boot-server.c:388] print_connection_process_identity:connection is from pid 677 (/bin/plymouth deactivate) with parent pid 668 (/usr/sbin/gdm3)
line 498: [./plugin.c:649] activate:taking master and scanning out

good:

line 402: [./plugin.c:649] activate:taking master and scanning out
line 573: [ply-boot-server.c:388] print_connection_process_identity:connection is from pid 711 (/bin/plymouth deactivate) with parent pid 665 (/usr/sbin/gdm3)
line 583: [./plugin.c:679] deactivate:dropping master

In the bad case, we don't see "dropping master" because boot_splash is NULL, because we were already deactivated.

I asked upstream about the attached patch, will see what they say and in the meantime it's on https://launchpad.net/~laney/+archive/ubuntu/plymouth if somebody would care to test.