James, the vt definitely needs to be cleared after plymouth exits (i.e., after lightdm starts up), not before, in order to avoid races. Brian Murray has been looking into this; Brian, any further progress?
> As for the second bullet, basically the way to fix this is to make sure that > upstart > schedules in the plymouth job immediately after lightdm stops and before any > other shutdown jobs are scheduled. First, there's no such facility in upstart. Second, it doesn't change the fact that any other jobs that are /already stopping/ at the time lightdm stops may generate output. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/967229 Title: Text mode shown briefly with various "cryptic" texts when logging out or shutting down To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/oem-priority/+bug/967229/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs