108 seconds to start F18 64

[Felix Miata]

On 2013-01-07 15:28 (GMT-0800) Adam Williamson composed:

> On Mon, 2013-01-07 at 18:22 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:

>> On 2013-01-07 18:05 (GMT-0500) Felix Miata composed:

>> > On 2013-01-07 12:46 (GMT+0100) Matthias Runge composed:

>> >> On 01/07/2013 12:28 PM, Felix Miata wrote:

>> >>> Also, several seconds for login prompt to appear on each tty where
>> >>> not previously used on that boot.

>> >>> cmdline: root=LABEL=h50root13 rd.md=0 rd.lvm=0 rd.dm=0 FONT=True
>> >>> KEYMAP=us rd.luks=0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 splash=verbose video=1152x864 at 70 3

>> >>> /var/log/boot.log:
>> >>> http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/bootlog-f18-big41.txt

>> >>> What needs to be installed to capture messages from before
>> >>> reaching target Basic System? tty1 is cleared, and I can never
>> >>> remember how to prevent that, or find instructions to do so, since
>> >>> systemd replaced sysvinit. :-(

>> >> Instead you should:

>> >> yum install systemd-analyze

>> >> and then execute systemd-analyze blame
>> >> or systemd-analyze plot > bootchart.svg
>> >> (probably the latter, and please post that graphic somewhere)

>> > Thanks!

>> > http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/bootchart-big41-f18.svg

>> > FWIW, on the 98s boot in this graphic, the occasional use eSATA device
>> > counted within the 108s was powered down.

>> Another with the eSATA device powered at POST, and with clock corrected for
>> non-working NTP (0.5s shorter):
>> http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/bootchart-big41-f18b.svg

>> Waiting on every login prompt on a tty is very annoying. Can they be
>> configured to start at boot instead of on demand? When booting with 3 on
>> cmdline it seems nuts that they don't.

> Yes, you'd just have to adjust the systemd service config for
> getty at .service .

I've yet to stumble onto a reliable doc for dealing with that file, which is 
a symlink to /usr/lib/systemd/system/getty at .service. There is no man page for 
getty at .service or getty at tty1.service. I've seen bits here and there on 
getting tty1 to not clear, but I never manage to get it to not happen without 
multiple reconfiguration attempts, and reboots.

>  But the spawning should be just about instantaneous on
> any reasonable config. If you have to wait for the tty to appear that
> sounds like a bug.

It happens on Cauldron too, but the delay is much longer on F18.
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