Re: boot in console mode from grub2
On Thu 08 May 2014 at 12:10:02 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Mon, 05 May 2014, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > if grep -wqs text /proc/cmdline; then
> > log_warning_msg "Not starting Light Display Manager (lightdm); found 'text' in kernel commandline."
> > [...]
> > fi
>
> This is broken. It will misfire on foo.text=<something>.
It will.
> This same issue has caused problems already, and IMHO it deserves a
> preemptive fix (even to stable).
'text' on the kernel command line was introduced to Debian via Ubuntu:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/256125
The justification for it is absent so it is difficult to know what need
it satisfies. A user who knows enough to edit a grub file and avoid
using 'service gdm3 start (which will not work) knows enough to disable
gdm3, which is no less effective and no less work.
'text' was originally aimed solely at gdm. It has crept into lightdm but
not xdm or kdm. Could the 'preemptive fix' be to remove it?
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