Talk:Frontend Auto Login

I don't know if this is the right place to post or not, but I had problems with Option 2 under version 8.10 of Ubuntu with openvt. First problem is the instructions say openvt is in /usr/bin but on my installation it's in /bin.

Once I figured that out it worked, but the boot process ended up starting XWindows before it started 'hald'. Without HAL, the USB mouse and keyboard wouldn't work.

You could probably change the start order of hald and tty7, but I found it easier to edit /etc/rc.local and add the following line:

/etc/rc.local

while (true); do /bin/openvt -fwc 2 -- /bin/su - mythtv -c /usr/bin/startx; done &

I believe rc.local is called at the end of the startup process and this seems to work. It may work on earlier versions as well but I don't have access to any to test it.