Brian K. White a écrit :
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
, 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
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 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 -- Jean-Daniel Dodin Président du CULTe www.culte.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org