upstart -- call for wider testing

Constantine Evans constantine at evanslabs.org
Wed Sep 6 18:43:53 BST 2006


Scott James Remnant wrote:
>  (you'll notice it's somewhat less
> verbose unless you're using usplash).

I would say that "less verbose" is a bit of an understatement. I am
probably in a small minority of Ubuntu users, since I use the console,
don't use usplash, and don't start X by default. It doesn't appear that
upstart tells me what it is doing at all - I only see the output of
various tasks (fsck, etc).

In addition, the login prompt, as has been noted before, comes up very
early (before / is mounted rw, and before /home is mounted). I actually
think that this is quite useful - if something goes wrong, I can still
log in and fix it without having to use single user mode. But there
should be some sort of indication as to when the login prompt is usable
in the normal sense.

I'm not sure if either of these issues are bugs, since upstart may be
designed in this manner. Is this behaviour intentional, or is the
desirable behaviour here just not implemented yet? If not implemented,
is someone going to be working on fixing it in the near future, or do I
need to fix it myself?

Constantine Evans




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