Bug#772728: systemd: plymouth never quits if kdm and gdm are installed

[Matthias Klumpp]

2014-12-10 15:51 GMT+01:00 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org>:
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> Other information that may be relevant:
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> When installing gdm3, the following message is displayed:
> Setting up gdm3 (3.14.1-3) ...
> WARNING: /lib/systemd/system/kdm.service is the selected default
> display manager but does not exist
> Job for gdm.service failed. See 'systemctl status gdm.service' and
> 'journalctl -xn' for details.
> invoke-rc.d: initscript gdm3, action "reload" failed.
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> Masking gdm3 resulted in a booting system. This is strange because
> failure to boot with gdm3 masked is what prompted me to unmask the
> service and discover this problem :/
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> Any other information I can provide, please let me know

Hey there!
This *might* actually be a Plymouth bug. We work around that in
Tanglu, but upstream is working on a better patch.
If you know how to patch Debian packages and rebuild them, you could
try to apply the patch in
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73585
to Plymouth and see if that fixes it. If so, wait for a proper patch later ;-)
Note: There might still be a systemd-unit issue, but the description
of this bug looks very familiar.
Cheers,
    Matthias

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