Todd Lyons wrote: > Felix Miata wrote on Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 09:03:13PM -0500 :
> > Counting the betas and RC's, I've installed 9.0 more than 10 times. On > > every one, when boot completes, the cursor on vc1/tty1 is always in the > > wrong place (col 0, under the first character of hostname), and the last > > "( OK )" from the boot messages is sitting over on the right side of > > the same line where the cursor is. Why is the login prompt (apparently) > > displayed before boot is finished? > That's from the samba init script. If you look, there's a > sleep 60 && killproc -HUP smbd On mine it is '(sleep 60 && killproc smbd -HUP ) &' > in the script. So what's happening is it moves to the end of the line, > prints the [ OK ], and then moves to the beginning of the line. It This explains what is happening. But . . . > doesn't affect anything. If you type the username where the cursor is > at, it will work just fine. I know I can still login just fine. I usually hit <return> before login name. That wasn't my point. To me it makes the Mandrake development team look like slobs, that the most visible part of starting up a system, displaying a login welcome prompt, is broken. What I'm really after is how to make it not do that any more, plus to get Mandrake to fix it before releasing 9.1. -- "If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you. . . ." Proverbs 9:12 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/
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