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Date:      Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:21:21 -0500
From:      Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: KDE4 and input events stalled
Message-ID:  <1239078081.1908.41.camel@balrog.2hip.net>
In-Reply-To: <49DAD429.6090309@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 21:18 -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> >>>>   * If I start kdm from /etc/ttys, I get a blank
> >>>>     screen on startup.  If I start it from a root
> >>>>     login, it works okay for the first login.
> >>> This sounds more like it is waiting on hal/dbus to start up than
> >>> anything.
> >=20
> > So, basically X should wait on hal/dbus t become ready.=20
>=20
> Looking at the code, this might be impossible.
>=20
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/hal does some very strange
> gyrations to delay its own start until after
> at least one getty process has started.  That would
> make it highly improbable that hal can start before X
> if X is being started from /etc/ttys.
>=20
> I'm not familiar enough with hal to know why it might
> want to do this.  Any ideas?

It's ok for hal to start later... It's dbus that has to be alive.  As
long as dbus is up, X will wait around on hal to show up for a bit.

robert.

> Tim
--=20
Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
FreeBSD

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