Comment 9 for bug 626723

Ok, I rebooted and dug around a bit.

When I boot up, when gdm starts I go to vt1 and see it initially starts on tty7:
$ ps auxww | grep [/]usr/bin/X
root 1329 0.4 0.4 135052 17908 tty7 Ss+ 11:19 0:00 /usr/bin/X :0 -nr -verbose -auth /var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-hUHdva/database -nolisten tcp vt7
$ sudo lsof -p 1329 | grep tty
Xorg 1329 root 6u CHR 4,7 0t0 4611 /dev/tty7

If I go to vt7, I see the gdm prompt. When I try to login with gdm, gdm restarts on tty8:
$ ps auxww | grep [/]usr/bin/X
root 3759 4.9 0.8 153928 33828 tty8 Ss+ 11:22 0:16 /usr/bin/X :0 -br -verbose -auth /var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-eigZMv/database -nolisten tcp
$ sudo lsof -p 3759 | grep tty
Xorg 3759 root 7r CHR 4,8 0t0 4612 /dev/tty8

If I now go to vt7, I see boot messages like:
* Starting Commun Unix Printing System: cupsd [OK]

But after all the boot messages, the last thing I see is (leading space intended):
 * Checking battery state...
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