Patrick R. Wade wrote: >My situation: ever since i started using GNOME with GDM, i've been annoyed >that the GDM startup interfered with my view of the tail end of the bootup >messages. Since my last "apt-get upgrade", things have gotten worse; >GDM starts up on VC 2, and promptly forgets how to accept keyboard input. > >Since X historically tries to appear on "the VC after the last one" (i.e., >if you have getty on VC 1-6, X appears on VC7), this symptom makes me think >that GDM is trying to spawn before init has quite figured out what to do >with the VCs. > >I want to try and deal with this by delaying the GDM startup to the end of >the init sequence, which i gather i can do by increasing the number on >the SNNgdm scripts in /etc/rcN.d ; is there much prospect of me shooting >myself in the foot or otherwise spectacularly screwing up by doing this? > I think the only real rule here is that the order of dependecies should match. Moving a service like gdm (I don't think anything depends on this) should be fine. If it doesn't work, just change it back. I'm not convinced that this will solve your problem though...
Kahli
