Re: [gentoo-user] init script freezes when xdm (kdm) starts

[Nick Cunningham]

2009/1/6 Francisco Ares <frares@×××××.com>

> Hi, guys
>
> I've been seeing this for several months now, and I couldn't fix it.  It is
> easy to workaround, so I didn't want to bother the list before.
>
> But when it's enough, it's enough.
>
> While booting, I can see the init scripts progress up to the time xdm (kdm)
> starts.  Then I lo gin and start to work.  Suddenly I remember that I have
> to issue a Ctrl-Alt-F1 to return to the boot console and only then the
> scripts go on, looking like they froze when X started (or some other related
> app).
>
> That was for several months and has come back now.  During a few months
> interval (I suppose that those time periods were coincident to kernel
> updates) I got the opposite: the scripts kept going, X appeared for very few
> seconds and then the boot console reappeared without intervention.  I always
> had to hit Ctrl-Alt-F7 to return to kdm.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks a lot
> Francisco
>
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>

Have checked to make sure your init scripts are in the right place, run
rc-update and it will show all your init scripts and in what order group
they are in (boot, default etc). It may be that one got added to the wrong
group which causes X to start too soon. Also check your running the latest
versions of baselayout (and openrc if you run ~arch).

For reference xdm should be the 2nd to last (or thereabouts) script to run,
normally just before local.

(also, are you sure this is X starting and not just a framebuffer splash?)

- Nick