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    <B>Colin Guthrie</B> 
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<PRE>'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 16/04/12 14:34 did gyre and gimble:
&gt;<i> BTW why not displaying a message &quot;switch to tty2 for a login&quot;?
</I>
In the normal case of X or prefdm.service failing, this is exactly what
happens (it's actually a message saying &quot;your graphical login is broken
blah blah, press any key to switch to multi-user.target (aka runlevel 3&quot;.

This  case is different (if I'm correct in my assumption). The fact is
that the non-lsb legacy initscripts impose a very, very strict ordering
on startup (based on their priority numbers in /etc/rcX.d/S??foo filenames).

This strict order is typically full of loops (a -&gt; b -&gt; c -&gt; a), so
somthing has to give. In order to do that systemd will delete jobs to
break the loop. Frequently this job turns out to be &quot;the prefdm.server
start job&quot;. When this happens we simply don't know that things are
failing in order ot display the error message (likewise, if we added a
totally separate unit for this it too could be deleted by these jobs).

Ultimately the correctly solution is to provide native systemd or
LSB-compliant sysvinit scripts.

I've fixed a couple and have previously linked a spreadsheet where
everyone can help out and track progress etc.

Col

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