[gentoo-user] set xdm to start after agetty

[gentoo-user] set xdm to start after agetty

[Thanasis]

How can we set the xdm/gdm not to start before the agetty processes 
(during the boot phase)?
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Re: [gentoo-user] set xdm to start after agetty

[Albert Hopkins]

On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 22:41 +0300, Thanasis wrote:
> How can we set the xdm/gdm not to start before the agetty processes 
> (during the boot phase)?

I actually run /etc/init.d/xdm manually after a boot because, chances
are, if I've rebooted my machine there's stuff I'm gonna want to do from
the command line before I start a desktop.

Or as a previous poster said.

# rc-upate del xdm
# echo '/etc/init.d/xdm start' >> /etc/conf.d/local.start

I don't think you'd need to add anything to local.stop but you may wanna
verify that.

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Re: [gentoo-user] set xdm to start after agetty

[Dan Farrell]

On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 06:31:58 -0500
Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org> wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 22:41 +0300, Thanasis wrote:
> > How can we set the xdm/gdm not to start before the agetty processes 
> > (during the boot phase)?
> 
> I actually run /etc/init.d/xdm manually after a boot because, chances
> are, if I've rebooted my machine there's stuff I'm gonna want to do
> from the command line before I start a desktop.
> 
> Or as a previous poster said.
> 
> # rc-upate del xdm
> # echo '/etc/init.d/xdm start' >> /etc/conf.d/local.start
> 
> I don't think you'd need to add anything to local.stop but you may
> wanna verify that.
> 
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> Albert W. Hopkins
> 
You might want to stop XDM gracefully rather than pulling the rug out
from under its feet with the TERM signal.  I don't know why it would
matter, but I bet you'll end up with artifacts in /tmp, ~/, or
something otherwise.  
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Re: [gentoo-user] set xdm to start after agetty

[Albert Hopkins]

On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 19:43 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote:
> > # rc-upate del xdm
> > # echo '/etc/init.d/xdm start' >> /etc/conf.d/local.start
> > 
> > I don't think you'd need to add anything to local.stop but you may
> > wanna verify that.
> > 
> > --
> > Albert W. Hopkins
> > 
> You might want to stop XDM gracefully rather than pulling the rug out
> from under its feet with the TERM signal.  I don't know why it would
> matter, but I bet you'll end up with artifacts in /tmp, ~/, or
> something otherwise.  

What I meant is that I think the shutdown/reboot process will
automagically runs a '/etc/init.d/xdm stop' even if you start it via
local.start.  I know it does so if you start it manually.

Anyway nothing in my /tmp survives a reboot.

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Re: [gentoo-user] set xdm to start after agetty

[Daniel Iliev]

On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:41:52 +0300
Thanasis <thanasis@asyr.hopto.org> wrote:

> How can we set the xdm/gdm not to start before the agetty processes 
> (during the boot phase)?

Just an idea for a possible direction to point your investigation to...

/etc/config-archive/etc/conf.d/xdm:
===
# Tell X to always start on VT7. Otherwise it autodetects the first available
# VT, which means it has to wait until all gettys are started so it doesn't suck
# up a VT that should have had a login prompt (very slow).
# If XSTATICVT is on, the login manager will start as soon as possible during
# the boot process. If you want X to dynamically start on the first unoccupied
# VT after all gettys have started and you are using xdm, also remove the "vt7"
# from /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers.
XSTATICVT="yes"
===

I'm not sure if it is still valid because the new xdm file is different.

/etc/conf.d/xdm:
===
# We always try and start X on a static VT. The various DMs normally default
# to using VT7. If you wish to use the xdm init script, then you should ensure
# that the VT checked is the same VT your DM wants to use. We do this check to
# ensure that you have't accidently configured something to run on the VT
# in your /etc/inittab file so that you don't get a dead keyboard.
CHECKVT=7
===

"/etc/conf.d/xdm" is provided by x11-apps/xinit


HTH


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Re: [gentoo-user] set xdm to start after agetty

[Matthias Bethke]

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Hi Thanasis,
on Friday, 2007-09-28 at 22:41:52, you wrote:
> How can we set the xdm/gdm not to start before the agetty processes 
> (during the boot phase)?

Have a look at the depend() function in /etc/init.d/xdm. It specifies
what should be started before xdm, so adding agetty to an "after" line
in this function should do it.

cheers,
	Matthias
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