On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Nick Cunningham <[email protected]>
wrote:
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> 2009/1/6 Francisco Ares <[email protected]>
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>> Hi, guys
>>
>> I've been seeing this for several months now, and I couldn't fix it. It
is easy to workaround, so I didn't want to bother the list before.
>>
>> But when it's enough, it's enough.
>>
>> While booting, I can see the init scripts progress up to the time xdm
(kdm) starts. Then I lo gin and start to work. Suddenly I remember that I
have to issue a Ctrl-Alt-F1 to return to the boot console and only then the
scripts go on, looking like they froze when X started (or some other related
app).
>>
>> That was for several months and has come back now. During a few months
interval (I suppose that those time periods were coincident to kernel
updates) I got the opposite: the scripts kept going, X appeared for very few
seconds and then the boot console reappeared without intervention. I always
had to hit Ctrl-Alt-F7 to return to kdm.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks a lot
>> Francisco
>>
>
> Have checked to make sure your init scripts are in the right place, run
rc-update and it will show all your init scripts and in what order group
they are in (boot, default etc). It may be that one got added to the wrong
group which causes X to start too soon. Also check your running the latest
versions of baselayout (and openrc if you run ~arch).
>
> For reference xdm should be the 2nd to last (or thereabouts) script to
run, normally just before local.
>
> (also, are you sure this is X starting and not just a framebuffer splash?)
>
> - Nick
Sorry to answer a question with another one, but how do I know to which
group the services should be added?
That really might be the solution of my problem. And, yes, it is really X .
This is the output from rc-uptate -s :
acpid | default
alsasound | default
apcupsd | default
bootmisc | boot
bootsplash | default
checkfs | boot
checkroot | boot
clock | boot
consolefont | boot
consolekit | default
cupsd | default
dbus | default
ddclient | default
fbcondecor | default
gpm | default
hald | default
hdparm | default
hostname | boot
keymaps | boot
kmyfirewall | default
lm_sensors | default
local | default nonetwork
localmount | boot
modules | boot
net.eth2 | default
net.lo | boot
numlock | default
rdate | default
rmnologin | boot
serial | boot
smartd | default
sysklogd | default
urandom | boot
vixie-cron | default
xdm | default
Thanks again
Francisco
