[Mageia-dev] Fresh install hangs during boot since yesterday

Fri Nov 18 11:43:24 CET 2011

'Twas brillig, and Frank Griffin at 16/11/11 16:45 did gyre and gimble:
+> On 11/16/2011 11:00 AM, Frank Griffin wrote:
+>> Since yesterday's updates, I've done repeated (3) fresh cauldron
+>> installs on a partition on an Acer Aspire One.  In each case, after
+>> mounting the partition from another working partition and rebuilding
+>> the initrd with radeon-firmware, booting the new partition gets to the
+>> point of putting up the Mageia splash screen, and then hangs for 10 or
+>> 15 *minutes* before the DM finally starts.
+>>
+> As an addenda, this didn't happen on the second boot, only on the
+> first.  On the second boot, there was only about 1 minute delay between
+> the appearance of the splashscreen and the start of the DM.
+
+See my earlier mail about debugging boot times using bootchart. This
+should at least help you understand why it takes 1 minute and help debug.
+
+As for the longer delay, I'm not 100% sure. I don't know much about the
+radeon drivers, but it would be easy enough to tell your
+plymouth-quit-wait.service to not start which might help "systemctl
+disable plymouth-quit-wait.service"
+
+If you do not use LVM or anything else "exotic", you can likely also
+call "systemctl disable udev-settle.service" too which might speed up
+your boot.
+
+
+Not got an immediate ideas yet, as I've been out the loop for the last
+week or so getting my head down at work.
+
+Col
+
+
+
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
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+http://colin.guthr.ie/
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