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

[Andreas Beckmann]

I think with Josef's report we should go for a wishlist bug against kde
(and gdm?) to increase the default timeout because this problem is also
reproducible in setups not involving the nvidia drivers. And with
parallel boot enabled by default it may happen to more people if the
timeout was just sufficient previously, but due to parallel startup more
cpu time is consumed by other processes and less is left for X.

Andreas

Josef Spillner (kuarepoti-dju.net) wrote:
> 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.

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