https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=335267 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=335267#c62 --- Comment #62 from Dieter Jurzitza 2011-04-25 18:22:53 UTC --- Hi Roland, good you found that. Even better to look into kdfontop.c from openSUSE (as distributed with 11.4): #if 1 // We no longer try PIO_FONT* calls. // A former patch even added a possible 5 seconds delay loop here, in an attempt to // gain victory over kdm. We no do this fight, as it can only result in races. // https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=302010 // // Two effects: // a) Without the delay loop, we are fast enough to run early. // Moving setfont calls to an earlier point most likly // avoids the race. // b) Without the old compat calls, it should be easier to // fix this in kernel side. // fprintf(stderr, "%s: putfont: %d,%dx%d: failed: %d\n", progname, count, width, height, i); perror("putfont: KDFONTOP"); return -1; #else ********** And the reffered bug #302010 is very old. So the issue has been well known for a decent amount of time. I guess the only fix would be to ensure sequencing /etc/init.d/kbd and /etc/init.d/earlyxdm - but I do not know whether this would be possible at all. And, I have seen this on much faster machines. It may refer to the speed of the cpu, but not neccessarily. On top of this, on all machines I see this there are only 6 tty's - just to tell about. Maybe it would make sense to ask Mr. Eich or Mr. Fink about this - at least they have been involved in #302010 (see comment above). Thank you for looking into this, take care Dieter Jurzitza -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.