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Allow user login and interaction before default runlevel finishes

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Personally, my default runlevel consists of only networking stuff (wpa supplicant and dhcpcd), not necessary to have right after booting up. In addition, my wifi interface takes quite a while to show up, since I am using realtek's 8852be (rtl8852be-dkms-git). To fix this, I edited the the script in /etc/init.d to wait for the interface, which added 4 seconds to my boot time. Is there a way to allow logging in and using the system before the default runlevel tasks are complete, or is there a better way to go around this problem with the interface being slow?

Re: Allow user login and interaction before default runlevel finishes

Reply #1 –
One way to do it is to turn those services into shell scripts and put them in /etc/local.d, and then putting the entire script in the background like this:
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#!/bin/sh
{
...
} &

My wifi manager script in /etc/local.d was slowing down my boot process because it was looking for suitable wifi networks to connect to, so I put it in the background like above and then by the time I logged in, it had already connected to a wifi network.

Re: Allow user login and interaction before default runlevel finishes

Reply #2 –
(edit) I missed the README, the files are supposed to have a .start extension. Thanks for the advice!

Hello Lancia,
Thank you for your idea! By turning services into scripts, do you mean running wpa_supplicant and dhcpcd just as you would on the console? Although I get success messages, it appears to be as though the scripts never ran. On running dhcpcd again, it is "waiting for carrier" as it would when wpa_supplicant wasn't set up. On running the script after logging in, the script works as expected.
/etc/local.d/wifi.sh:
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#!/bin/sh
{
    count=0
    wifi_if=wlan0
    # wait for wlan0
    while [[ $(ip a | grep $wifi_if | wc -l) == 0 ]] && [ $count -lt 30 ]
    do
        sleep 0.5
        count=$((count+1))
    done
    wpa_supplicant -B -i $wifi_if -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
    dhcpcd -b wlan0
} &> /log.txt &
/log.txt:
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Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
dhcpcd-9.4.1 starting
DUID 00:04:32:44:43:35:36:31:52:31:4b:4a:4a:52:36:31:44:35
forked to background, child pid 2312

Re: Allow user login and interaction before default runlevel finishes

Reply #3 –
>(edit) I missed the README, the files are supposed to have a .start extension. Thanks for the advice!

Yeah sorry I should've mentioned the README file