Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 108665
console text login screen after RHGB
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:32 EST
Description of problem: During bootup first I see text, then the graphical rhgb starts to run, then I briefly get a console text login screen, then it goes back to a graphical fedora X windows screen. My machine boots into runlevel 5. The problem is the visible console text login screen. With graphical boot and runlevel 5 I should not see this. The effect is probably more noticeable on a slow pc. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.11.2-1 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1.enable rhgb 2.setup runlevel 5 in /etc/inittab 3.boot pc Actual results: startup process goes from graphical boot screen to console text screen and then to graphical X screen Expected results: startup process should go directly from graphical boot screen to graphical X screen Additional info:
I have noticed this as well, and it's very annoying/uncool/amateurish-looking. If the initial kernel text after the grub screen could be eliminated as well, it would be even better...just think of some sexy color fading effect when going from "before-rhgb" to rhgb and when going from rhgb to gdm/kdm - that would be awesome! Now, if all services could be loaded *in parallell* as well (pre-configured and compiled after configuration into a binary starting program), I'd be a happy man.
I think Caldera had a wierd way to avoid the text login in their eDesktop series.. somehow they initialized their X server twice. Once without any applications (not sure if its the same display as alt+ctrl+f7), then killed it and initialized kdm. With RedHat, the things is that rhgb is not like bootsplash. Rather, it uses the X server, and that too on display defined by atl+ctrl+f8. If they were to use the similar traick as Caldera, they would have to time it correctly, otherwise the server would try to run three times and may crash... Maybe RedHat can try to comment out the part of the sysinit/inittab that is respionsible for switching to the text console (alt+ctrl+f1)... either stay at display 8 or try to implement the caldera trick. Caldera is no more, so I dont think it would hurt ;)if they "hacked" the idea
This is graphical output enhancement, low priority but this may be improved in the future, Daniel
I have tried to fix it as much as possible, some of the earlier boots messages should be displayed in the detailed graphical view and I have worked to avoid the graphic -> text -> graphic transition between rhgb and the gdm login screen. I don't think I can do more in the current state, it would require revamping the graphical boot architecture a lot and it's not possible at this point. Fix is in rhgb-0.13.2 which was just pushed to rawhide and should show up in devel later this week. Daniel