Initializing hardware... slow

[Bojan Smojver]

On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 22:13 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:

> Seems related to network calls
> 
> ntp startup is sloooow
> httpd startup -> same
> gaim startup -> anemic (btw the latest arts is missing lnusertemp, which
> exposes the well-documented stupidity of having gnome sound depend on
> kde subsystems)

How's your DNS? This could all be related to invalid DNS servers
in /etc/resolv.conf.

> I'll try bootstart tomorrow - rawhide today is so broken I'm pretty
> disgusted (gaim/arts/mcop, gdm, selinux, slow startup) If I don't do
> something else now I'll start writing rude things on the list.
> 
> I don't mind a new bug a day but several in a row like this before I've
> even finished investigating the first one is too much for me. You got to
> love the destabelizing effect of test 1 - every Red Hat packager seems
> to have postponed his experimental packages for after test1 was
> released.

If things like this make you upset, maybe you shouldn't be running
Rawhide. It is (unfortunately) not possible to find bugs without
delivering software to users.

-- 
Bojan