why my FC6 start so slowly?

[John]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 00:12 -0500, John wrote:
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>> Aaron Konstam wrote:
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>>> On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 12:31 -0500, John wrote:
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>>>> David Timms wrote:
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>>>>> John wrote:
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>>>>>> redtroy zhang wrote:
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>>>>>>> I installed FC6 on my IBM R51E laptop.
>>>>>>> It worked well before,
>>>>>>> but after i update my system with "yum", the kernel changed from 
>>>>>>> 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 to 2.6.20-1.2933.fc6.
>>>>>>> the new kernel starts quite slowly, when setting host name and 
>>>>>>> starting HAL, but the old one goes fast.
>>>>>>> what's the problem ? How to fix that problem?
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>>>>>>  I have the same thing going on with my Compaq- can't remember (off 
>>>>>> hand) which kernel is running.
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>>>>> Could you see if having your network cable unplugged as you boot up 
>>>>> speeds things up ?
>>>>> You could also try temporarily removing quiet from the grub kernel 
>>>>> line {/boot/grub/grub.conf}
>>>>>
>>>>> Post back your results.
>>>>>
>>>>> DavidT.
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>>>>   You know, I did notice something weird- now that you mention the 
>>>> cable. The first time I booted up, the cable was connected and the start 
>>>> up seemed to spend more time on sendmail (then I thought it should be). 
>>>> The 2nd boot up (hrs later) was w/o the cable connected; it booted up 
>>>> fairly quickly. The 3rd boot had the cable connected and the start up 
>>>> dragged on again.
>>>>
>>>>                 John
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>>> A problem with you Internet access can slow up any service that depends
>>> on it.
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>> :) After all the years with Windows, the net doesn't get turned on until 
>> everything is running.
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> That is not true in Linux. Have your machine start Internet at boot and
> try to reboot your machine and things like sendmail starting will be
> very slow.
> The suggestion of slow DNS service is also a good one.
>   
Huh, I kinda wondered... force of habit and not knowing any different I 
guess.