Bill Nottingham wrote:
Dan Nicholson (dbn.lists(a)gmail.com) said:
> Oh, very good point. Let's try again. In the attached patch, all the
> logic is handled in event.d/prefdm. In particular, when we want to
> spawn a getty on tty1, we use initctl to emit a new event
> "tty1-getty". This also includes some logic to try to make sure that
> the display manager is gdm before assuming that it will be able to
> start on tty1.
>
> What do you think?
It's still problematic in that whichever vt you run telinit from will
get gdm, which may not be tty1. (Also, it's just getting a little complex
overall.)
What happens if you aren't on a vt at all (ssh, remote X, vncserver,
freenx, etc.?).
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Les Mikesell
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