On Tue, 04 Apr 2006 09:54:59 +1200 Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > The Ugly: > > * When booting, a whole lot of messages scroll past for about 15~20 > > seconds complaining that it can't remove certain files - "operation > > not permitted". > > I suspect this is part of a clean-up operation. If I could find the > > script that's doing this, I could knock it on the head. > You need to direct the error output from these operations to /dev/null > rather than not doing them. The boot-up process is done by a shell script > called /sbin/rc and scripts called therefrom. You might care to examine it > and try to work out what's happening. You could probably get a big hint > from the messages on the screen, because they will have the name of the > file being executed somewhere in that line. You can stop the scrolling by > pressing the ScreenLock key. ( or possibly CTRL-S, CTRL-Q to get going > again ) > > > Not a show stopper, but also not a good look if I want to demo gentoo > > to a potential convert, hence I've categorised it under "ugly". > I thought that this was 'somewhat odd and rather undesirable' too.
gentoo forums reveals this: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-379090.html -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
