Kudzu freezing during graphical boot

Jason Luka jason at geshp.com
Mon Sep 22 04:59:38 UTC 2003


Bill Nottingham wrote:

>Jason Luka (jason at geshp.com) said: 
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>>The kudzu program has a problem while the graphical boot is running.  
>>When it detects new hardware that has to be configured, the program 
>>runs, but there is no opportunity for the user to make the selection 
>>whether or not to configure the hardware.  Not even ctrl-alt-bksp will 
>>get you to the right screen.  Depending on how much hardware needs to be 
>>configured, this could cause delays upward of three minutes or more.  As 
>>a solution, I suggest this change to the kudzu startup script.  This 
>>should run kudzu without requiring any user input.
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>The fact that you're running X shouldn't mean that you don't want
>to see the messages; there are better ways to fix this; I should
>actually build one of them one of these days.
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>Bill
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What about `/sbin/pidof rhgb`? I haven't read the startup scripts too 
thoroughly, but that might be a simple fix for it.

Jason Luka





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