really REALLY slow computer

[Pete Snider]

On 5/3/07, zephod at cfl.rr.com <zephod at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: zephod at cfl.rr.com
> Date: Thursday, May 3, 2007 8:56 am
> Subject: Re: really REALLY slow computer
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>
> > 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
>
> Also on shutdown, I get these messages:
>
> ...
> Shutting down interface eth0: e1000: eth0: e1000_reset: Hardware
> error   [  OK  ]
> Shutting down loopback
> interface:                                        [  OK  ]
> SIOCGIFFLAGS: No such device
> ...
>
> Any problems booting into single user mode, init mode 1?  If not then
you'll need to go through the services that are starting in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d
to see which one(s) is causing the problems.

-pete
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