TTYs are delayed on boot

grant123 · Veteran Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 1080

My lightdm login comes up right away on boot but Ctrl+Alt+F1 etc don't display a login prompt until about 20 seconds after lightdm is displayed. Is that normal?

SirRobin2318 · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2014 8:24 pm Post subject:

If you're using systemd try to see if this sheds any light:

grant123 · Veteran Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 1080

I'm actually using openrc.

grant123 · Veteran Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 1080

It seems this was due to ntp-client taking a while to start. Now I start ntpd and not ntp-client:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7514238.html