On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 11:10 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
Hi,
I've tried the new GDM early login feature, it's really nice to get a
better desktop experience at little cost IMHO. One problem, though : After
just enabling the services included with gdm ("chkconfig --add" run for
the 3 included : gdm-allow-login, gdm-early-login and zzz-bootup-
complete), it wouldn't work until much further on as the X server couldn't
start because of xfs not running. Could this be because I added early-
login to my kernel command line but removed rhgb? If so, should this be
considered a bug, or are all users who use gdm supposed to also be running
rhgb?
Last question : Will this early-login be considered to become the default
for FC4?
From Ray Strode's initial early-login howto:
Next thing you'll want to do is to change the chkconfig: line
in /etc/init.d/xfs to
# chkconfig: 2345 08 97
and also change the chkconfig: line in /etc/init.d/syslog to
# chkconfig: 2345 07 98
then run
/sbin/chkconfig xfs on
/sbin/chkconfig syslog on
/sbin/chkconfig --add gdm-early-login
/sbin/chkconfig --add gdm-allow-login
/sbin/chkconfig gdm-early-login on
/sbin/chkconfig gdm-allow-login on
to regenerate the symlinks in /etc/rc5.d
The last thing that needs to be changed is grub.conf. It should be
modified such that the kernel cmdline has "early-login" in it.
For instance, it might look like this:
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1208_FC4 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
quiet
vga=0x317 early-login
It's all probably pretty fragile right now, so be careful.
tjb
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