Alex L. Mauer wrote: > David Kempe wrote: >> Anders Häggström wrote: >>> Anyone know why this happens? >> upstart is event driven, so things happen after other things. The login >> prompt comes up, but is overwritten by other things happening in the >> background. This will be different for different hardware etc, as the >> event driven init works that way. >> >> the upside in decreased boot time, the downside is that things may >> happen in strange orders sometimes... > > Hmm > > Before this thread got all sidetracked, it did have a point: regardless > of whether upstart is event based, the login prompt on the console (the > tty that is /dev/console, not just any text screen: the other 5 virtual > ttys should be fine) should not come up until everything else is done on > the console. Alternatively, the console should be moved elsewhere so as > not to interfere with the login prompt.
I guess I don't see the problem. The console is subject to receiving messages anytime the kernel wants to put them there. And it often does. How is this so different? Michael -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server
