the upstart job is missing support for 'text' command

Thank you for your bug reprot

That's how the issue was fixed in gdm by then:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-desktop/gdm/ubuntu/revision/99

We should probably apply that to the lightdm upstart job as well

seems like that was reverted in gdm due to bug #436936 though
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-desktop/gdm/ubuntu/revision/309

hum... i see. how can we have a non UI (e.g. single?) boot on ARM, then?

Well, I don't say that we shouldn't fix it or add a "text" option, I'm just pointing it that we might need to be a bit smarted that the first commit I pointed there ;-)

looking at that gdm commit it simkly looks like an oversight that "text" isnt identical to single user mode at all.
i subscribed james so he can comment but i guess he didnt even remove the option to use "text" on cmdline on purpose, it just happened to be in the single user code chunk that was replaced.

I put the updated lightdm upstart script into the packaging bzr. Upload to oneiric needs to wait for a bit, as there is another SRU currently being tested.

I also put a corresponding fix into plymouth, to avoid keeping the plymouth splash around forever if "text" is given: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/precise/plymouth/precise/revision/1412

Martin, I disagree with this change to the plymouth job and am reverting it. The changes to the lightdm job should take into account the need to stop plymouth even when booting with the 'text' option - the single user mode handling already does this, there's no reason text should be different.

BTW, the lightdm change could just as well be added to the if [ -n "$UPSTART_EVENTS" ] block, instead of creating a separate if [ -n "$JOB" ] block.

Ah, thanks Steve, that's even easier.

lightdm fix updated in bzr.

Hello Nicolas, or anyone else affected,

Accepted lightdm into oneiric-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Could you test if the fix work?

This bug was fixed in the package lightdm - 1.0.6-0ubuntu2

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lightdm (1.0.6-0ubuntu2) precise; urgency=low

  * Upload to precise.

lightdm (1.0.6-0ubuntu1) oneiric-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * debian/lightdm.upstart: Put back check for "text" in kernel command line,
    for inhibiting automatic lightdm start. Check $JOB to still allow a manual
    "start lightdm" command to work. (LP: #873334)

  [ Robert Ancell ]
  * New upstream release:
    - Use lchown for correcting ownership of ~/.Xauthority instead of chown

lightdm (1.0.5-0ubuntu1) oneiric-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    [1.0.5]
    - Relax AppArmor guest profile to allow compiz to start
    - Connect up VNC settings for width, height, depth
    [1.0.4]
    - Fix --enable-gtk-greeter=yes not working
    - Fix X sessions with arguments in Exec not working
    - Use previous session for automatic login or if greeter does not request
      one. (LP: #834515)
    - Correct ownership of ~/.Xauthority if upgrading from buggy version of
      LightDM that had it root owned. (LP: #871667)
    - Set default resolution of VNC to 1024x768, add settings for width, height,
      depth into lightdm.conf.
    - AppArmor profile: Fix broken gnome-keyring and dbus/gwibber, and quiesce
      annoying kernel audit messages for privileges that we definitively do not
      want to grant. (LP: #877736) (LP: #874635)
    - Set LOGNAME environment variable (LP: #875705)
    - Mark strings as translatable in GTK greeter (LP: #868613)
    [ 1.0.3]
    - Fix reference counting issue in ConsoleKit code
    - Really add the lightdm-guest-session-wrapper
    [ 1.0.2 ]
    - Fix daemon from blocking if Accounts Service does not exist
    - Fix greeter log file not being written
    - Don't set LANG environment variable if using Accounts Service.
    - Fix gdmflexiserver not working due to it not being in PATH
    - Don't authenticate the greeter user
    - Allow greeters to be disabled in configure flags
    - Fix over allocation of read buffer in greeter protocol
    - Make sure objects are cleaned up on exit
    - Fix minor memory leaks
    - Fix hugely oversized allocation in greeter buffer. Can trigger
      crashes when entering very long passwords.
  * debian/patches/00bzr_guest_session_wrapper.diff:
  * debian/patches/07_long_password_crash.patch:
  * debian/patches/08_correct_ck_ref.patch:
    - Applied upstream
  * New upstream release.
 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Thu, 10 Nov 2011 07:19:12 +0100

Successfully tested on Panda Board.
Thanks

This bug was fixed in the package lightdm - 1.0.6-0ubuntu1

---------------
lightdm (1.0.6-0ubuntu1) oneiric-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * debian/lightdm.upstart: Put back check for "text" in kernel command line,
    for inhibiting automatic lightdm start. Check $JOB to still allow a manual
    "start lightdm" command to work. (LP: #873334)

  [ Robert Ancell ]
  * New upstream release:
    - Use lchown for correcting ownership of ~/.Xauthority instead of chown

lightdm (1.0.5-0ubuntu1) oneiric-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    [1.0.5]
    - Relax AppArmor guest profile to allow compiz to start
    - Connect up VNC settings for width, height, depth
    [1.0.4]
    - Fix --enable-gtk-greeter=yes not working
    - Fix X sessions with arguments in Exec not working
    - Use previous session for automatic login or if greeter does not request
      one. (LP: #834515)
    - Correct ownership of ~/.Xauthority if upgrading from buggy version of
      LightDM that had it root owned. (LP: #871667)
    - Set default resolution of VNC to 1024x768, add settings for width, height,
      depth into lightdm.conf.
    - AppArmor profile: Fix broken gnome-keyring and dbus/gwibber, and quiesce
      annoying kernel audit messages for privileges that we definitively do not
      want to grant. (LP: #877736) (LP: #874635)
    - Set LOGNAME environment variable (LP: #875705)
    - Mark strings as translatable in GTK greeter (LP: #868613)
    [ 1.0.3]
    - Fix reference counting issue in ConsoleKit code
    - Really add the lightdm-guest-session-wrapper
    [ 1.0.2 ]
    - Fix daemon from blocking if Accounts Service does not exist
    - Fix greeter log file not being written
    - Don't set LANG environment variable if using Accounts Service.
    - Fix gdmflexiserver not working due to it not being in PATH
    - Don't authenticate the greeter user
    - Allow greeters to be disabled in configure flags
    - Fix over allocation of read buffer in greeter protocol
    - Make sure objects are cleaned up on exit
    - Fix minor memory leaks
    - Fix hugely oversized allocation in greeter buffer. Can trigger
      crashes when entering very long passwords.
  * debian/patches/00bzr_guest_session_wrapper.diff:
  * debian/patches/07_long_password_crash.patch:
  * debian/patches/08_correct_ck_ref.patch:
    - Applied upstream
  * New upstream release.
 -- Robert Ancell <email address hidden> Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:37:43 -0400