From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 Epiphany/1.0 Description of problem: As the progess bar moves from left to right, the name of the service that is attempting to start is shown for a few seconds then faded away. This is nice eyecandy, but it's really inconvenient if a particular service is taking forever or hanging indefinately. If I'm not lucky enough to catch the name of the service in the few seconds before it fades away, I'll have no idea what's going wrong 'til I reboot and devote 100% of my attention to watching the names of the services before they fade away. In #fedora-devel someone suggested that instead of the names fading away after a few seconds, they could fade from one into the next. That sounds like a much more sensible option if we really want fading eyecandy. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.9.4-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot your Fredora installation and watch as the names fade away rather quickly. Expected Results: I should be able to know what service is attempting to boot regardless of how closely I pay attention to the boot sequence.
That's the correct behavior. Only a small fraction of the steps of boot are visible, and I don't want users to think the current visible label is the one that is causing the slow boot. There's a bug where it doesn't stay visible in the case where it is the slow one, but in general, the behavior is correct.
Fixed in rawhide.