Seems we don't use the patch since long, and it seems to work fine even with plymouth. Sorry for the delay.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/799069 Title: xf86OpenConsole: setpgid failed Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Binary package hint: lightdm Oneiric i386 on nvidia (xorg-edgers) got logged into xorg.log: xf86OpenConsole: setpgid failed: Operation not permitted xf86OpenConsole: setsid failed: Operation not permitted i've found similar issue reported but against xdm/slim/wdm: Bug #585853 #19 post seems to point the real problem: - This appears to be caused by the lightdm package not integrating with upstart. - The plymouth process which holds the console open is waiting for a signal that the lightdm job is starting up, so that it can let go of the console; but the lightdm package doesn't have an upstart job, so there's no signal sent, which means the plymouth and lightdm processes are fighting over the console. Note: need to check that the above comments are correct ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.4.0-0ubuntu5 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0-1.2-generic-pae 3.0.0-rc3 Uname: Linux 3.0-1-generic-pae i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: i386 Date: Sat Jun 18 09:26:09 2011 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=fr_FR:fr:en_GB:en PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=fr_FR.utf8 LC_MESSAGES=fr_FR.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/799069/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp