GDM early login

[Thomas J. Baker]

On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 11:10 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've tried the new GDM early login feature, it's really nice to get a
> better desktop experience at little cost IMHO. One problem, though : After
> just enabling the services included with gdm ("chkconfig --add" run for
> the 3 included : gdm-allow-login, gdm-early-login and zzz-bootup-
> complete), it wouldn't work until much further on as the X server couldn't
> start because of xfs not running. Could this be because I added early-
> login to my kernel command line but removed rhgb? If so, should this be
> considered a bug, or are all users who use gdm supposed to also be running
> rhgb?
> 
> Last question : Will this early-login be considered to become the default
> for FC4?
> 


>From Ray Strode's initial early-login howto:


> Next thing you'll want to do is to change the chkconfig: line
> in /etc/init.d/xfs to 
> # chkconfig: 2345 08 97
> 
> and also change the chkconfig: line in /etc/init.d/syslog to 
> # chkconfig: 2345 07 98
> 
> then run 
> /sbin/chkconfig xfs on
> /sbin/chkconfig syslog on
> /sbin/chkconfig --add gdm-early-login
> /sbin/chkconfig --add gdm-allow-login
> /sbin/chkconfig gdm-early-login on
> /sbin/chkconfig gdm-allow-login on
> to regenerate the symlinks in /etc/rc5.d
> 
> The last thing that needs to be changed is grub.conf.  It should be
> modified such that the kernel cmdline has "early-login" in it.
> 
> For instance, it might look like this:
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1208_FC4 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
> quiet
> vga=0x317 early-login
> 
> It's all probably pretty fragile right now, so be careful.
> 

tjb
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