Latest Chapter in the Quest for Orca

Jason White jason at jasonjgw.net
Mon Jun 3 19:46:42 EDT 2013


Martin G. McCormick <martin at server1.shellworld.net> wrote:
 
> 	What you get when the system boots precludes much
> control other than through an X console. You hear the speakup
> kernel starting up and complaining about many things such as the
> state of the alsa configuration. Apparently, this is okay as
> sound and sound effects do run. Eventually, X starts on its own
> and you loose the ability to stop speakup.
> 
> 	Speakup continues to complain about many things and then
> describes everything starting up until about where bluetooth
> starts at which point it stops talking.
> 
> 	What should happen after that based on a few tantalizing
> events is that you get the orca login window but nothing has
> worked after that.

My suggestion was to turn off gdm so that X doesn't start during the boot
process. You'll need to modify the init scripts with, for example, chkconfig
gdm3 off and if it's already started, service gdm3 stop



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