Bug#562646: New upstream version

[Guido Günther]

On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 01:04:04PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le samedi 27 mars 2010 à 09:16 +0100, Guido Günther a écrit : 
> > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:24:36PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> > > The init script is called gdm3 in the new package, so it isn't having
> > > any effect. 
> > You're right. I though it'd provide gdm and gdm3 but it doesn't.
> > In this case you should disable the start target alltogether in
> > plymouth's init script.
> 
> I thought I’d make it provide gdm, but unfortunately insserv chokes when
> you do that.
> 
> > > That's a good question, when I have a little more free time I will try
> > > out the patches and see if the VT switch is a problem.
> > Well shouldn't this work out if we launch plymouth on the same VT as
> > gdm3? Upstream has quiet a bunch of new code for this in 0.8.x.
> > Cheers,
> 
> Launching plymouth directly on vt7 could indeed be a solution, but I
> wonder whether X will actually use vt7, or whether it will think it’s
> already occupied and launch itself on vt8.

Fedora has this patch for that:

http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/gdm/F-13/plymouth.patch?revision=1.2&view=markup

Plymouth touches a force-display-on-active-vt to tell gdm to take over.
This part is upstream in plymouth but the gdm part isn't, as it seems.
Cheers,
 -- Guido