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bug#39089: Guix System: Very long, scary boot time
From: |
Ricardo Wurmus |
Subject: |
bug#39089: Guix System: Very long, scary boot time |
Date: |
Sun, 03 May 2020 19:18:10 +0200 |
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mu4e 1.2.0; emacs 26.3 |
Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:
> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> 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/
We have a patch for Plymouth:
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/26970
Back then I asked for more information on how to actually use it. Now
it’s clear to me: by building it statically and including it in the
initrd.
--
Ricardo