[gentoo-dev] minor problems with _rc6

[Collins Richey <erichey2@home.com>]

Excellent distro.  Here are a few minor problems.

1) Is there any way to avoid having messages from initialization bleed
through to the console after boot?  When I boot, the first login
prompt is overlaid by "eth0: Setting half duplex ..." which is
apparently a late message from starting eth0.  Some distros have this
problem; some don't.

2) After login and password (run level 3), I always get the following
two messages.  Is this a new feature or a minor bug?  The user logs in
normally.

	pam_group [n] : not opened
	PAM_pwdb [n] : (login) session opened for user uuuuu by LOGIN(uid=0)

3) As I reported on _rc5, package xfce as installed has a dependancy
for sox.  xfce by default issues the play command (part of sox) to
play sounds.

4) The lines in /etc/devfsd.conf for sound and snd should have
permissions 666; otherwise, no normal user mode program (like xfce)
can play sounds.

5) I can't find any way to get the aliases in /etc/profile to be
recognized when starting an xterm window under xfce.  I've tried
adding a ~/.bashrc that does source /etc/profile.  I've added --login
to both the startxfce and xfterm scripts.  Nothing.  If I enter ls, no
colorization.  If I manually source /etc/profile, then ls works with
colorization.  What am I missing?

TIA
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Collins Richey
Denver Area
gentoo_rc6 xfce+sylpheed