On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 09:36:14AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 17 novembre 2010 à 13:47 +1100, david b a écrit : > > After upgrading from lenny to squeeze, gdm starts on vt8 always (even > > after restarting it). It should start on vt7 as this is the expected > I noticed this happens often to me too, and I can assure you it???s not a > GDM bug. The Linux VT interface wrongly reports vt7 as being in use, > before gdm is even started. Well, to me, it does indeed appear to be a GDM bug: I can not reproduce this permanent VT allocation with either KDM, XDM or startx. The issue does only show up with GDM. And it does never show up when starting GDM the first time after boot, GDM needs to be stopped and started again for the issue to show up here on my systems. > It does not happen on all systems, so it > might be related to KMS - for example it happens with my radeon-based > Which graphics hardware are you using? I can reproduce this on Intel graphics (KMS) and VIA Chrome graphics (no KMS, afaik). regards Mario -- The secret that the NSA could read the Iranian secrets was more important than any specific Iranian secrets that the NSA could read. -- Bruce Schneier
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