On Fri, 2012-08-31 at 13:51 +0200, Damjan Georgievski wrote:
And this is yet another example how initscripts are broken. I had a friend whose GDM was not coming up because it was starting too fast after dbus. As a last resort we rearranged the DAEMONS and moved gdm as the last daemon (after NM etc) and it magically started to work.
Isn't it more likely that dbus and GDM are broken and it should be started last anyway, there's no magic.
I use GDM too, but it's not in the DAEMONS list.
[root@archlinux spinymouse]# grep DAEMONS /etc/rc.conf # DAEMONS DAEMONS=(69switch_xorg.conf hwclock syslog-ng !network !netfs crond acpid dbus networkmanager rtirq) [root@archlinux spinymouse]# pacman -Qi gdm Name : gdm Version : 3.4.1-3
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You probably use the inittab method
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Display_Manager#inittab_method
Will this be an issue for him if he switches to full systemd as it has removed inittab (the one piece of init that all Linux distros had in common). -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) _______________________________________________________________________