Eldee Stephens wrote: > alan, et al, > > after upgrading my opensolaris install to build 107 i saw something i noticed > on the december Xorg test binaries, but never got around to debugging. at > some point when GDM launches and tries to start X, the screen would flash > back and forth between a black screen and the console and eventually dump me > back in the console with various reasons listed in Xorg.0.log. killing gdm > and relaunching it via svcadm would have everything come up just fine. > > as it turns out, the reasons were because hald on my system takes a very long > time to launch (over 20sec in fact). by adding hal as a dependency to > svc:/application/graphical-login/gdm:default, my laptop starts up properly. > i'm not sure if anyone else has this issue -- i couldn't find anything on > defects.opensolaris.org -- but wanted to give a heads up. since Xorg 1.5 and > beyond uses hald, it might make sense to include that as a dependency on the > default manifest for gdm. > > i love SMF. ;) i'll go ahead and CC the desktop group as well since they are > probably the folks who make the call on adding the dependency if thought > reasonable. > > -- eldee @ IBMUS > What build did you upgrade from?
- James
