[xubuntu-users] systemd and xfce questions

[Petter Adsen]

On Sun, 22 Mar 2015 21:43:23 +0000
Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:

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> On 03/21/2015 07:50 AM, Petter Adsen wrote:
> > I've just installed 15.04 on a separate disk to test it out, and
> > I'm having a few questions.
> > 
> > First off, while booting, I guess after loading the kernel and
> > initrd, the system becomes unresponsive and the screen goes black
> > for a long time (~30s) before systemd takes over and continues the
> > boot. Anyone knows where I can begin to look for the cause of this?
> > There is nothing in the logs that jumps out at me.
> 
> All Linuxes have (always have had) a delay during boot when the screen
> goes black and the cursor disappears. I have never understood why this
> should be. I have always assumed it's an artifact of me using older,
> slower computers, but I have seen it on faster ones too.
> 
> New users are particularly set aback by this, because it looks as if
> it's broken.
> 
> It would be great if the logo or some indication of life could persist
> while it does this, but I suspect it's a point at which X is trying to
> work out what kind of screen it's dealing with, or something similar,
> so the blankness may be unavoidable.

I know that there is a small delay, but I've been running Linux on this
machine for years, and I've never seen a delay this long before. For
the last few months I've been running 14.10, and the delay was
certainly not present there.

Petter

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