[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#524751: Timing-related bugs

[Josef Spillner (kuarepoti-dju.net)]

Hello,
just saw this bug report linked from Petter Reinholdtsen's blog entry and
found it applicable also to my problem. In my case, a live system is
created by bootstrapping a Debian/squeeze base system and installing
kde-full onto it. Now booting it on real hardware from USB works out of the
box (on Intel graphics, probably on others as well). However, running it in
QEmu without acceleration and even booting it from a slow DVD drive makes
the kdm boot fail with the very same system image which works when booting
from USB. I don't know how the ServerTimeout setting is interpreted, but in
any case the software should not assume *any* absolute number of seconds as
a limit because virtualisation like in my case can make the assumption
invalid and the software fail.
Therefore, unless there is a better fix available, I think raising the
ServerTimeout limit sounds like a good workaround to me. I haven't read
about any negative side effects of doing so.

You can try for yourself if you want to download a large system image
file:
http://download.serviceplatform.org/spaceflight-1.0beta3/