Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
This is immediately after boot up, (Immediate isn't the right word as it takes ~45mins to boot and log in) Is this normal? Forty-five minutes? NO!
Yup, 45 mins!
It starts to boot OK but really bogs down when it gets to INIT and then udev times out which takes about 10mins. I was hoping the 2.6.21 kernel was going to help but it did not. Everything seems to function OK when it finally boots but it juuussssttt ttttoooo ssslllooowwww. AAAAGGGGHHHH!
Is there anything in the logs about timeouts during boot? /var/log/dmesg may have some clues...
Nothing about timeouts. Here are a few things from dmesg that might be of interest.
... checking if image is initramfs... it is Freeing initrd memory: 3470k freed apm: BIOS not found. audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) ... ACPI Exception (processor_core-0783): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is not present [20070126] ACPI Exception (processor_core-0783): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is not present [20070126] ... SELinux: initialized (dev securityfs, type securityfs), not configured for labeling audit(1178194702.785:4): avc: denied { mount } for pid=955 comm="modprobe" name="/" dev=securityfs ino=5875 scontext=system_u:system_r:insmod_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 tclass=filesystem ...
Steve