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Re: Bug#660940: usbfs error causes kdm to not load on startup or reboot



On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 15:31:12 -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:

> On Wed 04 Jul 2012 16:34:18 Julien Cristau escribió:
> > On Tue, Jul  3, 2012 at 17:42:22 +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
> > > Hi debian-x people,
> > > 
> > > Alle giovedì 23 febbraio 2012, david mckisick ha scritto:
> > > > Update to this. The issue is related to - xf86OpenConsole:
> > > > VT_WAITACTIVE failed: Interrupted system call.
> > > > 
> > > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/441653
> > > > 
> > > > For now I have inserted a sleep 1 just before the kdm start line.
> > > 
> > > This (bug #660940) would seem a xserver-xorg issue, fixed with upstream
> > > commit 88c4622b594a1725d0cee86bc82ad640d241c520 (part of 1.10.99.901 and
> > > onward).
> > > Would you be able to confirm that could be indeed the case, or anyway
> > > provide hints about the issue?
> > 
> > The EINTR from VT_WAITACTIVE indeed should go away with this commit.
> > It's still not clear to me why it happened in the first place, but I
> > guess if the system is busy on cold startup things being slower than
> > usual might trigger it.
> 
> Hi debian-x people!
> 
> I was looking trough our RC bugs and stumbled upon this one. It is not clear 
> to me if this is or not a bug in kdm or xserver-xorg. Anyway, for solving this 
> RC bug for Wheezy, we can:
> 
> - Add the hack in kdm. Ugly and punishes other users with a 1 second delay, 
> but it still can work.
> - Add the aforementioned commit to xserver-xorg and reassign this bug.
> - Any other ideas?
> 
This bug was fixed in wheezy ages ago.

Cheers,
Julien

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