[PATCH] - rhgb, inittab and xorg

[Essien Essien]

Hi all,

This is my first patch against kadischi. I hope: diff -Naur format is ok?
The attached patch does 3 things:

1. It adds the two kernel parameters 'rhgb' and 'quiet' to the kernel
lines
in isolinux (they're just kernel parameters and if not used are ignored so i
didn't think there was any need to add them conditionally)

2. 08inittab.sh is a post install script that sets up /etc/inittab on the
livecd to runlevel 5
3. 09xorg.sh sets a default xorg.conf. Without this, rhgb tries to start,
and borks on unknown resolution.

NB. the patches are small, that's why i sent them in one patch. if this is
undesirable, please let me know, and i'll put them in a better format.

cheers,
Essien

[J. Hartline]

Essien Essien wrote:

>  Hi all,
>
>  This is my first patch against kadischi. I hope: diff -Naur format is ok?
>  The attached patch does 3 things: 
The patch will fail against Kadischi's CVS, for anyone who uses it.
Also they are not deployable, you can't explicitly set rhgb, inittab to 
runlevel 5 or write an xorg.conf file
without first checking if:
1) rhgb was installed
2) X.org was installed

Writing out an xorg.conf file based upon installed packages is something 
Anaconda does during writeXCofniguration().
What would be better is to look into if and why Anaconda is failing to 
do this with Kadischi.

[Filip Tsachev]

Hello,

Also rhgb is something I personally find not useful because you can't
automatically make it display details you have to press key combo to
do so..
(correct me if I'm wrong about the key only method)

On 06/02/06, J. Hartline <jasperhartline(a)adelphia.net&gt; wrote:
>  Essien Essien wrote:
>
>  > Hi all,
>  >
>  > This is my first patch against kadischi. I hope: diff -Naur format is ok?
>  > The attached patch does 3 things:
>
>  The patch will fail against Kadischi's CVS, for anyone who uses it.
>  Also they are not deployable, you can't explicitly set rhgb, inittab to
>  runlevel 5 or write an xorg.conf file
>  without first checking if:
>  1) rhgb was installed
>  2) X.org was installed
>
>  Writing out an xorg.conf file based upon installed packages is something
>  Anaconda does during writeXCofniguration().
>  What would be better is to look into if and why Anaconda is failing to
>  do this with Kadischi.
>
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[Essien Essien]

On 2/6/06, J. Hartline <jasperhartline(a)adelphia.net&gt; wrote:
>  Essien Essien wrote:
>
>  > Hi all,
>  >
>  > This is my first patch against kadischi. I hope: diff -Naur format is
>  ok?
>  > The attached patch does 3 things:
>
>  The patch will fail against Kadischi's CVS, for anyone who uses it.
>  Also they are not deployable, you can't explicitly set rhgb, inittab to
>  runlevel 5 or write an xorg.conf file
>  without first checking if:
>  1) rhgb was installed
>  2) X.org was installed
>
>  Writing out an xorg.conf file based upon installed packages is something
>  Anaconda does during writeXCofniguration().
>  What would be better is to look into if and why Anaconda is failing to
>  do this with Kadischi.
>
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>  
You're right. Apparently, i patched in the reverse order.

Also, after our discussion on #fedora-livecd, it appears that the
anaconda.patch for FC4 causes this problem. It would be better to actually
fix anaconda.patch for those on FC4. Attached is teh corrected
anaconda.patch. This makes 08inittab.sh and 09xorg.sh unneccessary.

 I'll look into rhgb parameter passing more... i think i have a neat
solution for it.

[Essien Essien]

hmm... it seems making anaconda to proceed to the writeXconfig step unveils
some errors on FC4. I'm away from my box now, so i can't send the message.
I'm looking into this some more.

[Chitlesh GOORAH]

>  The patch will fail against Kadischi's CVS, for anyone who uses
> it.
>  Also they are not deployable, you can't explicitly set rhgb, inittab to
>  runlevel 5 or write an xorg.conf file
>  without first checking if:
>  1) rhgb was installed
>  2) X.org was installed
>
>  Writing out an xorg.conf file based upon installed packages is something
>  Anaconda does during writeXCofniguration().
>  What would be better is to look into if and why Anaconda is failing to
>  do this with Kadischi. 
True we must look at what is failing.
We must also try not to damage kadischi as well.
If there is something wrong about anaconda or any other 3rd party
elements, we need to push it upstream, just like JasperHartline did
for anaconda :)

Good job though, Essien,
if you can figure out something that could switch off unneccessary
services, it would ease my load :)

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[Chitlesh GOORAH]

ChitleshGoorah, about more control of services... you mean ability to
turn them on/off before writing the livecd right?

Essien im lagging on irc:
in case you didn't get my answer :)

yeah the ability to turn on/off services and gdm-early login as well
if its supported

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[Essien Essien]

On 2/6/06, Chitlesh GOORAH <chitlesh(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  ChitleshGoorah, about more control of services... you mean ability to
>  turn them on/off before writing the livecd right?
>
>  Essien im lagging on irc:
>  in case you didn't get my answer :)
>
>  yeah the ability to turn on/off services and gdm-early login as well
>  if its supported
>
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gotcha. gonna see what i can do about that.

[Essien Essien]

On 2/6/06, Essien Essien <essiene(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  On 2/6/06, Chitlesh GOORAH <chitlesh(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  >
>  > ChitleshGoorah, about more control of services... you mean ability to
>  > turn them on/off before writing the livecd right?
>  >
>  > Essien im lagging on irc:
>  > in case you didn't get my answer :)
>  >
>  > yeah the ability to turn on/off services and gdm-early login as well
>  > if its supported
>  >
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>
>
>  gotcha. gonna see what i can do about that.
>  
i have a basic idea on this, but its untested yet. i'm actually on the road
from now till prolly friday. i'm relocating from one town to another. if i'm
settled by weekend, i should have time to verify this. The idea is:

#! /bin/bash
# script is 10services.sh
# first check for ntsysv on new install if installed, call it up chrooted.
rpm -q ntsysv --root $1 && chroot $1 /sbin/ntsysv

#end of script

if someone can test this out before i have the time to by weekend. that will
be nice. Chitlesh? ;)

[Chitlesh GOORAH]

>  The idea is:
>
>  #! /bin/bash
>  # script is 10services.sh
>  # first check for ntsysv on new install if installed, call it up chrooted.
>  rpm -q ntsysv --root $1 && chroot $1 /sbin/ntsysv
>
>  #end of script
>
>  if someone can test this out before i have the time to by weekend. that will
>  be nice. Chitlesh? ;) 
the actual path is /usr/sbin/ntsysv
It doesnt work, but Ill try to find time to hack on it tonight or does
anyone has any suggestions :)

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[Filip Tsachev]

Maybe early_login is also an applicable kernel parameter?

On 06/02/06, Essien Essien <essiene(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Hi all,
>
>   This is my first patch against kadischi. I hope: diff -Naur format is ok?
>   The attached patch does 3 things:
>
>  1. It adds the two kernel parameters 'rhgb' and 'quiet' to the kernel
> lines
>  in isolinux (they're just kernel parameters and if not used are ignored so i
>  didn't think there was any need to add them conditionally)
>
>  2. 08inittab.sh is a post install script that sets up /etc/inittab on the
>  livecd to runlevel 5
>  3. 09xorg.sh sets a default xorg.conf. Without this, rhgb tries to start,
>  and borks on unknown resolution.
>
>   NB. the patches are small, that's why i sent them in one patch. if this is
>  undesirable, please let me know, and i'll put them in a better format.
>
>  cheers,
>  Essien
>
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>
>
>  

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Filip

[Essien Essien]

On 2/6/06, Filip Tsachev <filip.tsachev(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Maybe early_login is also an applicable kernel parameter? 

what does early_login do?

[Chitlesh GOORAH]

On 2/6/06, Filip Tsachev <filip.tsachev(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Maybe early_login is also an applicable kernel parameter? 
I haven't really understood whether it has been replaced my
readahead_early or now. Or is readahead_early another addon?
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