Bug#589250: insserv: Strange sequencing of xdm

2010-07-17 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
severity 589250 minor thanks [Ian Zimmerman] So, probably demote this bug to minor, mostly targeting documentation so as to avoid the same confusion in other curious people. Any proposals on where to add such information? Which manual page or other documentation would have worked for you?

Bug#589250: insserv: Strange sequencing of xdm

2010-07-17 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Petter Any proposals on where to add such information? Which manual Petter page or other documentation would have worked for you? I read /usr/share/doc/sysv-rc/README.Debian and I wasn't cured of my delusion, so I guess it should be there. -- Ian Zimmerman i...@buug.org gpg public key:

Bug#589250: insserv: Strange sequencing of xdm

2010-07-16 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Ian Zimmerman] As elaborated in [1] , one of the easiest ways to speed up booting, or at least improve the perception of speed (and isn't perception everything? :-P ) is to start the X display manager (xdm, kdm, gdm or whatever) early in the sequence. I just did the insserv transition and

Bug#589250: insserv: Strange sequencing of xdm

2010-07-16 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Petter I would expect some script having X-Start-Before (reverse Petter dependency) on xdm. There is no special handling of xdm in Petter insserv. I looked at the graph, and also at the insserv source code. I didn't find any more dependencies involving xdm than the ones we already knew about.

Bug#589250: insserv: Strange sequencing of xdm

2010-07-15 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Package: insserv Version: 1.14.0-2 Severity: normal As elaborated in [1] , one of the easiest ways to speed up booting, or at least improve the perception of speed (and isn't perception everything? :-P ) is to start the X display manager (xdm, kdm, gdm or whatever) early in the sequence. I just