Re: xdm takes so long to start [was Re: New X Server crashes]
Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
>
> Erik,
>
> Not sure if this will help at all, but if you are running kde, there may
> be a problem with xdm as window manager - I didn't read long on it, but
> kde is a "session-manager" and therefore requires I guess kdm to run.
>
> So, if you are running kde, might wanna post a note to debian-kde and
> see if they can help. What i recall is that kde will battle for control
> of x or something like that.
I am not sure what it means using kde. I have lots of kde apps
installed (and libs as well, of course), but I do not run any part of
kde at startup (AFAIK).
also, to be precise, the delay is even before the xdm login script
appears, after I type in username/password it gets started pretty
quickly. What the whole process of booting looks like is: there are
normal bios/lilo/kernal messages, the the startup scripts are run, one
of the last messages is from xdm startup script (saying it is started)
and then I get login prompt (on the virtual console). X is not started,
there is nothing on vt7. I can login as usual. After about one minute
the X starts, the xdm login screen appears on the vt7.
does anybody else experience this delay?
erik
>
> hth
>
> On Friday 15 December 2000 09:38, Erik Steffl wrote:
> > Joey Hess wrote:
> > > Shao Zhang wrote:
> > > > xdm on my machine(laptop) takes about 50 seconds to start.
> > > >
> > > > If no one knows why, then I am going to fire up a bug report against
> > > > it.
> > >
> > > I've already tracked down this bug and filed a report, so please don't
> > > bother.
> >
> > any news on this? xdm still takes a LONG time (one minute?) until it
> > start X server (the login window)
> >
> > erik
>
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