Good morning Petter
I must thank you for your patience.
As far as I know, changing the sequence number of a script will not
affect parallel booting. Did you use S7nvidia-glx or S07nvidia-glx?
If the former, I suspect this caused the script to not run at all
during boot. I suspect there is some race issue causing some but not
all boots to fail.
Time has proven you correct, and my approach a failure anyways (hangs
head). I had used S7, but even changing it to S07 made no difference.
Back now to what it started at - S17nvidia-glx. Basically, whatever went
right earlier on is now not going right; back to being dropped to the
console.
Btw, what is the name of the package providing /etc/init.d/nvidia-glx
on your machine (dpkg -S /etc/init.d/nvidia-glx).
$ dpkg -S /etc/init.d/nvidia-glx
nvidia-glx: /etc/init.d/nvidia-glx
Installed from the repositories, but drivers downloaded from nVidia are
affected also.
Please try the adjusted header for nvidia-glx I posted earlier, and
let me know if it helps.
Made that change, and no change to the boot issue. Rebooted a number of
times, to make sure not a one-off.
So far, only thing that seems to get me through is to make that change
mentioned in my earlier email to /etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc with a timeout
value of 120. After my earlier overconfident assurance that had possibly
found a solution, won't say that have it fixed, but over the test boots
just now done, each boot was successful at getting to the login screen.
The time from when the screen goes blank to when am presented with the
logon screen varies from 15 to 18 seconds (give or take). Before, it was
tossing me to the console after about 12 to 15 seconds (give or take).
On those grounds, at least things seem to be working, even if not as
they should :) I have read in my searches that making this change is not
the preferred method, but ... - I can also make a coffee while I wait
(laughing).
Have another machine which have been holding off making this update to.
Took the plunge a little earlier, and it came up on the first boot. Also
an nVidia card. My 3 machines are always set up identically - can hop
from one to the other without having to remember which machine am
sitting at - different hardware, but same system otherwise. So, not a
consistent issue, as you suggested in your reply to me. The third
machine is not affected - ATI, not using proprietary drivers.
I have reached the end of my own options and limited knowledge (getting
old and forgetful :)), but am most happy to use this machine to debug
the issue with you if that will help improve further an already supurb
distribution. Crashing it is not an issue - worst comes to worst, can
reformat, reinstall (grinning).
Have babbled sufficient for now
Happy hacking,
With greetings
Romane
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