Hi, Starting with build 105 I've got trouble with cde-login. When computer boots, it takes very long time to get from console to login prompt, usually it's matter of minutes. Mostly time is spent in gray/white X startup phase. Pressing ENTER after typing password blanks the screen again for ~1-2 min, and everything works reasonably fine afterwards (beside some glitches in gnome).
Problem persists across several boxes and across two sxce builds, 105 and 107. I've tried to change to gdm on Toshiba Tecra M9 running snv 107, but login time is compatible with this from dt-login screen, although initial time from grub till gui login prompt is considerably shorter (order of magnitude). Second and much more severe problem with X was related to initial startup, when network misconfiguration leaves system in permanent service initiation and configuration phase w/o anything happening. While it is rather easy to fix in single-user mode by starting/stopping nwam/ network/physical:default (or vise versa), dependence of X on networking state is quite hard to understand. It may be justified by need of remote login from dt-login menu, but complete lack of X when network access is lacking on machine with networking enabled seems quite strange. I didn't notice first problem with prior builds on my stationary box. In fact, time from grub menu till gui login screen was under a minute for me, plus few seconds extra to initialize gnome session (I'd say ~15s). On my new laptop I tried only newer sxce builds, namely 105 and 107, and solaris 10/8 and osol 2008.11-rc2. Both sxce builds had both mentioned problems. Solaris 10/8 boots quickly but I didn't test networking much with it due to lacking support of intel wifi card. Boxes info: 1st- Toshiba Tecra M9 with 1Gb ram and NVidia Quadro NVS 130M, Intel Centrino vPro. 2nd- Self-assembled box with Asus M2A-MX with integrated ATI Radeon gpu, 2Gb ram. SXCE is installed on ufs on Tecra due to memory limitations. Enabling of gdm was done by issuing following commands: # svcadm disable cde-login:default # svcadm enable gdm Any help would be appreciated. Igor Ralets -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
