On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 21:18 -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote: > >>>> * If I start kdm from /etc/ttys, I get a blank > >>>> screen on startup. If I start it from a root > >>>> login, it works okay for the first login. > >>> This sounds more like it is waiting on hal/dbus to start up than > >>> anything. > > > > So, basically X should wait on hal/dbus t become ready. > > Looking at the code, this might be impossible. > > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hal does some very strange > gyrations to delay its own start until after > at least one getty process has started. That would > make it highly improbable that hal can start before X > if X is being started from /etc/ttys. > > I'm not familiar enough with hal to know why it might > want to do this. Any ideas? It's ok for hal to start later... It's dbus that has to be alive. As long as dbus is up, X will wait around on hal to show up for a bit. robert. > Tim -- Robert Noland <rnoland_at_FreeBSD.org> FreeBSD
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