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Re: [opensuse] Console login before x login
- From: jdd sur free <jdanield@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 10:00:17 +0200
- Message-id: <48956591.7050707@xxxxxxx>
Brian K. White a écrit :
we had first to understand before beeing able to answer (eventually)
this assertion is not entirely true. The boot system is parallel,
several processes starts at the same time to improve speed. Usually
console is speeder than x, so one can see briefly a console prompt
before x being started (I see you said that also below)
I don't know how the parallel system works exactly, may be it can be removed
>, and that it's blocking the rest of the startup process until it
finisheds, but it never finishes, and so init never reaches the point
where it would start the console gettys. And if that's so, then it
shouldn't matter what video driver is in effect. the more critical
parts of the server should never depend upon the video hardware.
not true. some video modes don't allow using system console, it was frequent some years ago with the frame buffer, control alt Fx could freeze the hole system. This was odd, I hope it wont come again.
of course, he sees it :-)
it is probably set by default. is not it's worth a try
before hacking, better try to see where is the problem, it's not the usual behavior of 11.
may be the /var/log/message could give us a hint
jdd
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He's not ignorant of Ctrl-Alt-F1 What he's saying basically is that
the xdm rc script is running before the console gettys get run
we had first to understand before beeing able to answer (eventually)
this assertion is not entirely true. The boot system is parallel,
several processes starts at the same time to improve speed. Usually
console is speeder than x, so one can see briefly a console prompt
before x being started (I see you said that also below)
I don't know how the parallel system works exactly, may be it can be removed
>, and that it's blocking the rest of the startup process until it
finisheds, but it never finishes, and so init never reaches the point
where it would start the console gettys. And if that's so, then it
shouldn't matter what video driver is in effect. the more critical
parts of the server should never depend upon the video hardware.
not true. some video modes don't allow using system console, it was frequent some years ago with the frame buffer, control alt Fx could freeze the hole system. This was odd, I hope it wont come again.
It appears that what he's describing is entirely possible.
of course, he sees it :-)
One thing you may be able to do quick-n-dirty for now is just set
RUN_PARALLEL in sysconfig. (vi /etc/sysconfig/boot, or, yast,
System, /etc/sysconfig editor, System, Boot, RUN_PARALLEL, yes) That should make all rc scripts run in the background, which is an
ugly but easy way to get init.d/xdm to run in the background.
it is probably set by default. is not it's worth a try
Another possible approach is move the getty lines in /etc/inittab
so they come before the init.d/rc lines. Doesn't look like that
would cause any problems, but you never know.
before hacking, better try to see where is the problem, it's not the usual behavior of 11.
may be the /var/log/message could give us a hint
jdd
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Jean-Daniel Dodin
Président du CULTe
www.culte.org
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