On booting up a Debian Sid box sometimes the Wings Display Manager starts on VT4 instead of VT7. Messages are sent to VT1 indicating that the getty is respawning too fast on VT4 and will stop trying for 5 minutes or words to that effect.
I imagine that this problem is caused by some kind of a race. ie the display manager starts before the gettys have started on the first 6 ttys. Has anyone else seen this or know what causes it? As I don't need all the VTs I have commented out the lines that start VTs 2 to 6 in the inittab which bypasses the problem but would like to know the cause. The second problem is that sometimes some fonts disappear. For example on login the menus in icewm will display the small icons but the accompanying text will be missing or in an application there will be no text on the toolbar only icons. The problem can be fixed by logging out then logging into VT1 as root and doing: /etc/init.d/wdm stop /etc/init.d/wdm start Has anyone seen this before or know where I should look for clues? cheers, Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
