Comment 5 for bug 439284

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote : Re: [Bug 439284] Re: Please allow for an easy way to disable xsplash

On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 20:13 +0000, emarkay wrote:
> This is not how Jaunty appeared, and I want to see the boot process code
> as long as possible without having to look at logs and all that later.
> See: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1284677

So xsplash is started by gdm; and gdm is started by upstart.

The main thing is that we're running startup scripts in a dependency
order rather than serially.

I get the motivation though, but I don't think xsplash is involved in
solving the issue at all.

-Rob