A few more questions about Upstart

[Johan Kiviniemi]

On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 05:57:47PM -0500, Sean Russell wrote:
> Still, at what point is the system considered fully "started"?  It is
> an interesting problem.

A splash program that listens to upstart events might record the list of
received events from each startup, and use the list of events from the
previous startup to determine the percentage of the "current" startup's
completion in order to draw a progress bar. Of course that would be
quite fuzzy, but it might even work well.

It wouldn't be a very big problem if the progress bar only went to 95%
or stayed at 100% for a few seconds on the next bootup after removing or
adding software, would it?

That still leaves the problem of determining a point where the system's
fully "started". If gdm is installed, it starting would be quite
obvious. If not, perhaps choose getty?

Another idea would be making a certain job explicitly send an
"interactive-system" event.

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Jοhan Kiviniemi  http://johan.kiviniemi.name/
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