Bootup delays

[Dave Jones]

On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 10:46:03AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
 > 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.

There are a number of kernel bugs open on the acpi battery stuff
already. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/showdependencytree.cgi?id=165150

Chances are this is a dupe of one of them.

		Dave