Unfortunately Aurora fails to time out on these hangs and instead leaves
the console in an apparently "stuck" state. While Aurora does a nice job
of making startup "pretty", it seems rather lacking in function and
recovery. One issue that concerned me was that while Aurora indicated
that it was waiting for nmbd to start, a quick "samba status" from
another machine (fortunately sshd had already started) showed that both
smbd and nmbd had started properly.
Is there some method - other than DrakConf - to disable Aurora in cases
like this? For example, what if I didn't happen to have X installed on
my 7.2 server or I didn't happen to have Exceed on my Win2K laptop?
Chances are, I would still be stuck at the Aurora login screen. Does
failsafe prevent Aurora from starting?
Sorry for all the questions - I was unable to install 8.0 and while Freq
is a development image, I would hate to see 8.1 end up with some real
functionality issues such as these. For all of my "semi-techie" friends
that want to try Linux, I would push them to either LM72 or RH71 right
now. I would like to be able to recommend Freq or 8.1!
== Original Message ==
Aurora is closely linked to initscripts and will hang when things are
changed
in them, and there is usually a lag until Aurora is modified to catch
up.
Civileme
