On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 04:44:28PM +0100, Frédéric Boiteux wrote: > > Using bootchart to profile the boot time of my laptop (Thinkpad X31), I've > noticed that it takes a long time in keyboard-setup and console-setup init > scripts. > > I've searched and found that setupcon, tool called by these 2 init scripts, is > always rebuilding keyboard definition from Xorg files at each boot time ! > > I've used the '--save' command of setupcon to save it to disk (in > /etc/console-setup/boottime.kmap.gz and now, these boot scripts run very > quickly, > and bootchart tells me I gained 9 seconds :-) > > Perhaps a mechanism could be added to save config or suggest it ?
Setupcon uses /etc/console-setup/boottime.kmap.gz only if it is not older than the configuration file /etc/default/console-setup. If it is older this means the keymap has to be regenerated. In order to avoid future time consuming regenerations, setupcon has to overwrite boottime.kmap.gz. But this file is situated in /etc so accordingly to the policy it is a configuration file and may not be overwriten without administrator's knowledge. I'd like to ask if I can make an exception for this case. The standard solution -- move boottime.kmap.gz from /etc to /var -- is not available because setupcon must be able to work when /var is not yet mounted. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
