[systemd-devel] Improve boot-time of systemd

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 24.03.11 10:20, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri (barbieri at profusion.mobi) wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar at mail.ru> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:19 PM, fykcee1 at gmail.com <fykcee1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> 2011/3/18 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <barbieri at profusion.mobi>:
> >>>  2. should we do (or have a way to) force a manual ordering to help
> >>> Xorg/DM/WM by avoiding spawn of concurrent services? We know these
> >>> have the higher priority, but it's a higher priority only during
> >>> startup, later on they should all have the same priority... otherwise
> >>> we could just do it by means of systemd's service settings.
> >> I prefer to start UI first, and then UI notifies systemd to start more services.
> >> The original boot sequence seems server-oriented, and I need
> >> desktop-oriented boot sequence -- let most services start AFTER a
> >> usable basic UI popup.
> >>
> >
> > KDM/GDM get really confused when host name changes after they are
> > started. And I have seen complaints that displayed host name is wrong.
> > So it probably should depend at least on network being available.
> 
> That is stupid, as the hostname may change due lots of reasons, maybe
> you wifi changed and now you got another home domain from dhcp? What
> would they do?
> 

X does hostname based auth. It's seriously broken. In fact, almost
everything is broken in this context: A) dhcp should not modify the
local hostname. B) X shouldn't be so retarded to use literal host name
strings for authentication purposes. C) KDM shouldn't set up xauth that
way.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.