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From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>
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Subject: Re: Xorg hangs on first boot
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Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Jan 2009, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> 
> DF> > After thorough upgrade (ugh!!!) almost all work as expected, except one thing:
> DF> > 
> DF> > on initial machine boot, X starts, gdm executes -- and then this console is not 
> DF> > responded to either keyboard or mouse; however, I can switch to text console, 
> DF> > log in and kill X server. After that, everything works correctly.
> DF> > 
> DF> > Any hints? Thank you in advance.
> DF> > 
> DF> 
> DF> You are facing the same problem as Oliver. Your X starts before the connection
> DF> between hald und dbus is established and hence X does not find hald.
> 
> Well, but gdm rc.d script contains
> 
> # REQUIRE: LOGIN cleanvar moused syscons dbus hald
> 
> and console log shows correct order: ...> 
> Rather strange for me.
> 

Yes, they start in the correct order, but the connection between them is not done
in time. This is a conceptual problem that can only be fixed properly upstream in
Xorg (the problem also exists with Linux distributions). The only workaround that
comes to mind is to operate X without hald or delay the start of gdm.