Bootup delays

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Aug 5 14:46:03 UTC 2005


Bart Vanbrabant (bart.vanbrabant at zoeloelip.be) said: 
> I finally found the problem. It's caused by the battery acpi module. I
> searched for insmod in rc.sysinit and there is only one part that uses
> insmod instead of modprobe. When I change this into modprobe my system
> boots normal and haldeamon starts. But the battery-applet doesn't work.
> I tried to do /sbin/insmod battery.ko and it takes a long time to finish.
> Hal crashes when I boot with a new kernel. I now move the battery.ko module out the acpi directory, this way I can boot in a normal way but the battery applet doesn't work of course.
> 
> What should I do now?

You can file a kernel bug about the battery driver, although it's probably
related to something funky in your BIOS as well.

Bill




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