Loginprompt shows up before booting is finished in Ubuntu Feisty server

[Anders Häggström]

2007/5/29, David Kempe <dave at solutionsfirst.com.au>:
> Anders Häggström wrote:
> > Anyone know why this happens?
>
> upstart is event driven, so things happen after other things. The login
> prompt comes up, but is overwritten by other things happening in the
> background. This will be different for different hardware etc, as the
> event driven init works that way.
>
> the upside in decreased boot time, the downside is that things may
> happen in strange orders sometimes...
>
> dave
>
Well.. some more downsides are that I have no control over the
situation. I have no idea of which service starts in what order, or
have the ability to isolate a fiew services to one runlevel and some
other services to another runlevel.
I think a server enviroment the boot time is not that imortant. It's
much more important to be able to customize the servces and control
the way they are executed.

Upstart is a great idea when it comes to desktop use, and to spawn
services as they are needed when special hardware is attached and
detached. But that, really, is not the case in a server enviroment, is
it?

I don't get the thing about "event driven", because Upstart still use
the /etc/rc?.d/ directorys and runlevel S and 2 during boot. And I can
still change the way services are spawned/started just by changing the
order of the boot-scripts in /etc/rcS.d/ and /etc/rc2.d/
The only thing Upstart adds to this is that I don't know why it works
or how it works, or for how long it will continue to work.

If I can't solve this issues (it's more than just the
login-messed-up-thing) with Upstart, or change back to a standard
SysV-model, I will have to swich to another server platform. I don't
want to, I think Ubuntu is great in many ways, but you leave me no
choise.

// Anders