Slow initialization of something during boot

[Frank]

On 08/14/2013 11:51 AM, Frank wrote:
> On 08/14/2013 11:33 AM, Ahmad Samir wrote:
>> On 13 August 2013 18:49, Frank <beacon at videotron.ca
>> <mailto:beacon at videotron.ca>> wrote:
>>
>>     Since I made the switch to a 64 bit machine (still using 32 bit
>>     Fedora 19) there is a long delay just before lightdm comes up with
>>     the login screen.
>>     Can someone take a look at this output and perhaps point out why and
>>     where it's occurring ? By the way I don't use LVM or raid...can I
>>     disable
>>     these services? What;s the best way to do that. Even so the time
>>     they take doesn't account for the 6-7 second delay after booting
>>     before lightdm comes up.
>>
>>
>> This could be the same issue discussed in this thread in the forum
>> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1661767
>> [...]
>>
>
>
>    As a matter of fact that appears to be almost exactly the problem
> here. The only difference is that I have selinux disabled, not set to
> permissive.
>
> Installing lxdm has "solved" my problem - the system boots quickly to
> the login manager. Now I have to re-enable lightdm to see if the delay
> returns. If so, I'll implement the bootchart as suggested by TC
> Hollingsworth on this list.
>


    Re-enabled lightdm, and we are back to a 25 sec delay before it comes
up.
I really don't know what to do next.I can "solve" my problem by going 
back to lxdm, but I really prefer the lightdm interface.

I could use the bootchart, but I can't edit the kernel command line with 
this USB keyboard as for some unknown reason it creates double
characters when at that level...same thing in the BIOS screen. It works
fine once the system is booted. I'd have to edit the grub default line 
and redo grub.cfg.

Regards

Frank