> > > > Hi Jonathon, > > quick fix for this: > > while it's booting...don't touch it...just let it timeout and let the > > machine boot up. Soon as you are logged in > > get to a terminal and: > > # kudzu > > one kudzu is up, have it reconfigure to satisfy itself. > > all should be fine now. > > after this...go to shutdown > > and, God willing, you won't be bothered w/that again. > > yes, ino, it's not right but this works for me when I add new hardware. > > gl! > > > > John Rose > > Hi John, > > Thanks for the reply, but I'm not sure we are on the same page. Let > me try again. I currently have devices connected to my system that > Fedora (and thus kudzu) knows about. The two that I mentioned before > are my keyboard and USB printer. Sometimes, whether from a quirk with > the keyboard or from moving my laptop, these devices are not connected > at startup. kudzu doesn't like this and asks me whether or not I want > it to remember that the device should be there. I tell it to keep the > configuration, but don't tell me again if you find it to be missing. > However, the next time the device is missing, kudzu insists on telling > me about it. So, I'm not adding hardware, but temporarily removing > hardware. I just don't want kudzu to complain about the missing > hardware. It seems like that is what the "Keep existing > configuration" option is supposed to do, but it doesn't. If I'm > correct, then this probably needs to be reported as a bug. Any ideas? > > I know I can shut off the kudzu service. For what all is it > responsible? Does it have anything to do with hotplug-like stuff? If > it has anything to do with configuring devices added after start-up > (like USB devices), then I want to keep it, but if it only looks for > changes on start-up, then I don't see the point. This is treating the > symptoms, though, not the problem. > > Jonathan afterthoughts on this...a keyword here is "laptop"...in other words sometimes certain devices are there and sometimes not. Well, yep, I have never went to bugzilla for anything and am really dumb on that. I should faithfully do that but I just put it off and satisfy myself thinking "oh, someone else already has." There seems to me one thing wrong w/kudzu...the screen that comes up during boot. ...guess that's a bug. Excuse me if I am wrong and want to be corrected if I am but it appears to me that when you take something away from the system. Kudzu, I am saying "probably" thinks to itself, "it's cool, that's not here anymore, let me jot this down." then, at a later time you add it back, it's like another device and it complains. If you keep taking in and taking out, I would disable kudzu after I found out how to enable it if I chose to later. I've changed motherboards, kb, mice, nic cards and other things in this equipment and ya, kudzu does complain, I never try to deal w/kudzu because of the same problem you speak of at boot up. I always wait til I am logged in then bring up kudzu and get it to stop the complaining and move on to the mountain of a project I am working on at the time. jr -- ...and I woke up 2 days later in the back yard talking to Elvis!
