Stacey Marshall wrote:
> When you say the login screen, do you mean the command login prompt or
> the GUI login?
> 
> The first time Solaris boots it seems to take a while for the GUI screen
> to be displayed.  the Disk light on my Acer 4005 can be seen to be
> flashing away so I presume its doing something.  After a short delay -
> over a minute possibly - the GUI screen displays and I can login OK.


On the first boot the SMF manifests get imported and munged
into their internal db format. Gui-wise, what happens on your
first boot is that the fonts in the system are processed by
the fc-cache service. This can indeed take many minutes.

James C. McPherson
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Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris
Sun Microsystems
http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp       http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
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