[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#583312: possible fix

[Romane]

Good morning

Further hunting around, and may have found a solution. A little background :

Adding the line "ServerTimeout=120" to the [X-*-Core] section of 
/etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc enabled the system to boot to a normal login screen. 
In comparison to while having the problem, where was counting 7 to 8 
seconds, give or take, and then being dropped from the green nVidia logo 
back to the console, adding that line I was counting 12 to 15 seconds, 
and then being presented with the logon screen.

  Wanting to test boot order, I deleted the line from kdmrc, and went to 
/etc/rc2.d. The order of the scripts was :

S01nvidia-kernel
S01quemu-kvm
S01speech-despatcher
S14portmap
S15nfs-common
S17nvidia-glx

Changed the S17nvidia-glx to S7nvidia-glx, and the beastie booted up to 
a login screen no problems, and at about the same speed (give or take) 
as before the installation of the initscripts and sysv... stuff yesterday.

Now, this is not optimal - some update at some time in the future will 
again reorder the scripts, and the problem is very likely to repeat itself.

If I could suggest a change to the way that the scripts that do the 
ordering of scripts in rc2.d to be altered so as to action nvidia-glx 
earlier in the boot sequence. Though the problem may not affect 
everyone, doing so may reduce or even eliminate the incidences of this 
issue in the future.

With greetings

Romane