On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 08:30:58AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 06 Aug 2006, Jack Carroll wrote: > > In general, it's _most_ unwise for any program to touch video modes, > > until the user has logged in and taken control. Otherwise, there is too > > Agreed. But AFAIK the initscript package does not have any code that change > video modes, or program console fonts, or do anything else of the sort...
Then maybe it's some program that initscript calls. console-screen.sh looks like a possibility. I'll disable it and reboot, and let you know what happens. > Anyway, please send us the output of ls -l /etc/rcS.D and ls -l /etc/rc2.d > (or equivalent information from your system). OK. Some of the output from dmesg may also be useful. I've added comments to that. $ ls -l /etc/rcS.D ls: /etc/rcS.D: No such file or directory $ ls -l /etc/rcS.d total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 785 2006-07-25 13:51 README lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2006-06-10 18:19 S01glibc.sh -> ../init.d/glibc.sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2006-06-10 18:19 S02mountkernfs.sh -> ../init.d/mountkernfs.sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2006-06-10 18:22 S03udev -> ../init.d/udev lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 2006-06-10 18:19 S04mountdevsubfs.sh -> ../init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2006-06-10 18:19 S05bootlogd -> ../init.d/bootlogd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2006-06-10 18:22 S05keymap.sh -> ../init.d/keymap.sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2006-06-10 18:19 S10checkroot.sh -> ../init.d/checkroot.sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2006-06-29 23:47 S18hwclockfirst.sh -> ../init.d/hwclockfirst.sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2006-06-10 18:20 S18ifupdown-clean -> ../init.d/ifupdown-clean lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2006-06-10 18:20 S20module-init-tools -> ../init.d/module-init-tools lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2006-08-06 19:39 S20modutils -> ../init.d/modutils lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2006-06-29 23:47 S22hwclock.sh -> ../init.d/hwclock.sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 2006-06-10 18:19 S25libdevmapper1.02 -> ../init.d/libdevmapper1.02 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2006-06-10 18:19 S30checkfs.sh -> ../init.d/checkfs.sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2006-06-10 18:19 S30procps.sh -> ../init.d/procps.sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2006-06-10 18:19 S35mountall.sh -> ../init.d/mountall.sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2006-06-10 18:23 S36discover -> ../init.d/discover lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 2006-06-10 18:19 S36mountall-bootclean.sh -> ../init.d/mountall-bootclean.sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2006-06-10 18:19 S36mtab.sh -> ../init.d/mtab.sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2006-06-10 18:22 S36udev-mtab -> ../init.d/udev-mtab lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2006-06-10 18:20 S39ifupdown -> ../init.d/ifupdown lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2006-06-10 18:19 S40hostname.sh -> ../init.d/hostname.sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2006-06-10 18:20 S40networking -> ../init.d/networking lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2006-06-10 18:45 S43portmap -> ../init.d/portmap lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2006-06-10 18:19 S45mountnfs.sh -> ../init.d/mountnfs.sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 2006-06-10 18:19 S46mountnfs-bootclean.sh -> ../init.d/mountnfs-bootclean.sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2006-06-10 18:23 S48console-screen.sh -> ../init.d/console-screen.sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2006-06-10 18:45 S50alsa-utils -> ../init.d/alsa-utils lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2006-06-10 18:19 S55bootmisc.sh -> ../init.d/bootmisc.sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2006-06-10 18:19 S55urandom -> ../init.d/urandom lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2006-06-10 18:20 S70nviboot -> ../init.d/nviboot lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2006-06-10 18:42 S70x11-common -> ../init.d/x11-common lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2006-06-10 18:46 S75sudo -> ../init.d/sudo lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 2006-06-10 18:23 S80installation-report -> ../init.d/installation-report lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 2006-06-10 18:19 S99stop-bootlogd-single -> ../init.d/stop-bootlogd-single $ ls -l /etc/rc2.d total 4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2006-07-01 10:51 K77ntp-server -> ../init.d/ntp-server -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 556 2006-07-25 13:52 README lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2006-06-10 18:20 S10sysklogd -> ../init.d/sysklogd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2006-06-10 18:20 S11klogd -> ../init.d/klogd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2006-06-10 18:45 S15bind9 -> ../init.d/bind9 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2006-06-10 18:46 S15lwresd -> ../init.d/lwresd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2006-06-10 18:23 S20acpid -> ../init.d/acpid lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2006-06-10 18:47 S20cupsys -> ../init.d/cupsys lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2006-06-10 18:46 S20dbus -> ../init.d/dbus lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2006-06-10 18:45 S20exim4 -> ../init.d/exim4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2006-06-10 18:46 S20hotkey-setup -> ../init.d/hotkey-setup lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2006-06-10 18:45 S20lpd -> ../init.d/lpd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2006-06-10 18:19 S20makedev -> ../init.d/makedev lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2006-06-10 18:20 S20openbsd-inetd -> ../init.d/openbsd-inetd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2006-06-10 18:45 S21nfs-common -> ../init.d/nfs-common lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2006-06-10 18:45 S89atd -> ../init.d/atd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2006-06-10 18:20 S89cron -> ../init.d/cron lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2006-06-11 16:31 S99fetchmail -> ../init.d/fetchmail lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2006-06-10 18:49 S99gdm -> ../init.d/gdm lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2006-06-10 18:19 S99rmnologin -> ../init.d/rmnologin lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2006-06-10 18:19 S99stop-bootlogd -> ../init.d/stop-bootlogd I think the following line flashed on the screen right after "starting portmap daemon". Something like this was in dmesg the first time I looked. When I looked in dmesg again, the message about portmap was gone. e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog_task: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex This one might have flashed on the screen too. It was too quick to catch. NET: Registered protocol family 10 And after that the bottom half of the screen went black. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]