<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:zephod@cfl.rr.com">zephod@cfl.rr.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:zephod@cfl.rr.com">zephod@cfl.rr.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
----- Original Message -----<br>From: <a href="mailto:zephod@cfl.rr.com">zephod@cfl.rr.com</a><br>Date: Thursday, May 3, 2007 8:56 am<br>Subject: Re: really REALLY slow computer<br>To: <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">
fedora-list@redhat.com</a><br><br>> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:<br>><br>> >>> This is immediately after boot up, (Immediate isn't the right<br>> >>> word as it takes ~45mins to boot and log in) Is this normal?
<br>> >>> Forty-five minutes? NO!<br>> >><br>> >> Yup, 45 mins!<br>> >><br>> >> It starts to boot OK but really bogs down when it gets to INIT<br>> and then<br>> >> udev times out which takes about 10mins. I was hoping the
<br>> 2.6.21 kernel<br>> >> was going to help but it did not. Everything seems to function<br>> OK when<br>> >> it finally boots but it juuussssttt ttttoooo ssslllooowwww.<br>> AAAAGGGGHHHH!>>
<br>> >Is there anything in the logs about timeouts during boot?<br>> >/var/log/dmesg may have some clues...<br>><br>> Nothing about timeouts. Here are a few things from dmesg that<br>> might be<br>> of interest.
<br>><br>> ...<br>> checking if image is initramfs... it is<br>> Freeing initrd memory: 3470k freed<br>> apm: BIOS not found.<br>> audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)<br>> ...<br>> ACPI Exception (processor_core-0783): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor
<br>> Device is<br>> not present [20070126]<br>> ACPI Exception (processor_core-0783): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor<br>> Device is<br>> not present [20070126]<br>> ...<br>> SELinux: initialized (dev securityfs, type securityfs), not
<br>configured<br>> for labeling<br>> audit(1178194702.785:4): avc: denied { mount } for pid=955<br>> comm="modprobe" name="/" dev=securityfs ino=5875<br>> scontext=system_u:system_r:insmod_t:s0-s0:
c0.c1023<br>> tcontext=system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 tclass=filesystem<br>> ...<br>><br>> Steve<br><br>Also on shutdown, I get these messages:<br><br>...<br>Shutting down interface eth0: e1000: eth0: e1000_reset: Hardware
<br>error [ OK ]<br>Shutting down loopback<br>interface: [ OK ]<br>SIOCGIFFLAGS: No such device<br>...<br><br></blockquote></div>Any problems booting into single user mode, init mode 1? If not then you'll need to go through the services that are starting in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d to see which one(s) is causing the problems.
<br><br>-pete<br><br>