Faster boot

Posted Jan 18, 2005 9:54 UTC (Tue) by climent (guest, #7232)
Parent article: Fedora Core 4 plans announced

As long as gdm is not ready to accept a login before the ldap service is up and running, I am happy. Ubuntu guys got so greedy at FastBooting their distro that with a fairly slow ldap startup the login was failing.

So what can you do with a fast login screen that does not allow you to login?

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Posted Jan 18, 2005 17:58 UTC (Tue) by brouhaha (subscriber, #1698) [Link] (1 responses)

Why should those of us whose logins do not depend on LDAP (but use LDAP for other things) be penalized? The default configuration as installed doesn't depend on LDAP for login, so it shouldn't wait for it either. If you reconfigure your system to need LDAP to login, you can reconfigure it to wait for the LDAP server to start also.

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Posted Jan 20, 2005 3:49 UTC (Thu) by piman (guest, #8957) [Link]

Of course, ideally, the GDM start scripts would check to see if LDAP logins are being used and adjust accordingly, making everyone happy.

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Posted Jan 18, 2005 18:26 UTC (Tue) by Ross (guest, #4065) [Link]

I wondered about dependency problems when I read the announcement. Couldn't
the X login programs or the libraries they use have some logic to retry a
few times if a directory service isn't responding? And when they do fail,
maybe they could show a different error message than for a authentication
failure.

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Posted Jan 19, 2005 21:57 UTC (Wed) by Soruk (guest, #2722) [Link] (1 responses)

Oh dear. Why does this remind me of NT4, where the login prompt appeared before most of the services had started?

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Posted Jan 20, 2005 7:32 UTC (Thu) by jeld (guest, #22397) [Link]

≤sarcasm> Because end-users are ~~stupid~~ impatient. So, everyone tries to start the nice GUI screen as fast as possible. Generaly this doesn't cause problems unless some overzealous geek tweaks his system into oblivion and then complaints that it doesn't work ≤/sarcasm>