Kudzu freezing during graphical boot

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Sep 22 04:53:14 UTC 2003


Jason Luka (jason at geshp.com) said: 
> The kudzu program has a problem while the graphical boot is running.  
> When it detects new hardware that has to be configured, the program 
> runs, but there is no opportunity for the user to make the selection 
> whether or not to configure the hardware.  Not even ctrl-alt-bksp will 
> get you to the right screen.  Depending on how much hardware needs to be 
> configured, this could cause delays upward of three minutes or more.  As 
> a solution, I suggest this change to the kudzu startup script.  This 
> should run kudzu without requiring any user input.

The fact that you're running X shouldn't mean that you don't want
to see the messages; there are better ways to fix this; I should
actually build one of them one of these days.

Bill





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