[ubuntu-za] Bootscreen weirdness

[Jason Norwood-Young]

On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 20:05 +0200, Deon Erasmus wrote:
> On 9/29/05, Jason Norwood-Young <jason at tectonic.co.za> wrote:

> > sudo rm /etc/init.d/ntupdate
> > (in theory - never tried it myself)
> 
> Small typo - it's ntpdate. Also, that will delete the init script
> completely. Better to just chmod -x /etc/init.d/ntpdate. Then you can
> just enable it again when you get your mobile broadband. I think there
> is a checkbox in the Clock applet in Gnome on Ubuntu which you can
> uncheck to make it stop doing its ntp thing.
> 
Oops, this is what happens when you're lazy like me and you type
"/etc/init.d/nt<tab>". I end up only knowing the first two letters of
everything :(

This ntpdate has always confused me - why is it even in the init
scripts? It would make a lot more sense if it ran on achieving an
internet connection, getting fired by an ifup or something similar. My
iburst modem doesn't even get close to being up in time for ntpdate. I
really thought they'd have fixed this by Breezy!

What *might* work to stop it freezing is to take out all the "auto"
lines in the /etc/network/interfaces file - the DNS lookup should fail
immediately. Of course this will break (or technically *fix*) every time
you run the networking config tool, but anyone want to test my theory
anyway?

J