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Guix System: Very long, scary boot time

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Message #26 received at 39089 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>, sirgazil <at> zoho.com,
 39089 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#39089: Guix System: Very long, scary boot time
Date: Sun, 03 May 2020 19:15:28 +0200

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org> skribis:
>
>> I think it's our job as a distribution to integrate the components properly into
>> the system so that confusing stuff like that doesn't happen.
>>
>> As a first step, we could just not start a getty on tty1 when gdm is configured
>> to start (see tty1 in %base-services in (gnu services base)).  Then the thing
>> above wouldn't appear.
>>
>> The usual fix a lot of other distributions (and BIOSes) have is to display a
>> splash screen on top.
>
> I think that would be the better fix: add the splash screen thing (I
> forgot the name) to ‘%desktop-services’, but keep functional TTYs.

I think you’re referring to Plymouth:

   https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Plymouth/

-- 
Ricardo

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