-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2008-09-22 at 04:26 +0200, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 02:03:19AM +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
[...] runlevel 3. I see that now it goes to runlevel 5, with option "x11failsafe" which is new for me and I don't know what it is. Is that what you mean?
Exactly. It's not expected that you know what x11failsafe is. In short, it means that X.Org uses xorg.conf.install instead of xorg.conf, which I'm calling a failsafe X configuration. It's expected to work. Otherwise the installation wouldn't have been possible. x11failsafe also helps when X using xorg.conf still starts, but freezes the machine or results in a blank screen. You cannot detect such a scenario automatically at all. You find more details about this in Bug #246158.
(Very intersting bugzilla. Should have been mentioned earlier)
Of course a third boot option would have been imaginable ("X11 failsafe") without the other kernel options, but I didn't even consider to request it. I'm sure it would have been rejected to prevent requests for even more boot options with people's favorite kernel boot options.
Dunno :-) I think you should reconsider that third boot option. I almost never would have tried booting into failsafe nor recomend anyone to do so in order to get the X going. I haven't used failsafe in years, I think. This "x11failsafe" seems too good a thing to be hiding in there. I have read at least three posts here, not newbies, declaring that they did not know it. I think it could be a boot option, plus a command line; when runlevel 5 fails, it could print a little text recomending to use one of those alternatives: reboot in x11failsafe mode start X11 in x11failsafe (print exact command) start sax2 (print exact command) Perhaps display a text dialog for all that. Perhaps request root password, it would not be nice for a user to reboot a server. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjXeAsACgkQtTMYHG2NR9Ui9QCfdyu1TiFdUarhjpA/5AGFcXuO aSsAoIafNsVvIpUmF5koTJXZMw27FpuO =MpXM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org