Re: really REALLY slow computer

----- Original Message -----
From: zephod@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thursday, May 3, 2007 8:56 am
Subject: Re: really REALLY slow computer
To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx

> 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
...