[Mageia-dev] Boot on Mageia Cauldron is damn slow! RFC

Tue Jan 24 18:25:09 CET 2012

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 16:54, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+> 'Twas brillig, and Damien Lallement at 24/01/12 14:06 did gyre and gimble:
+>> Hi,
+>>
+>> Since my laptop (HDD) is running Cauldron, it needs 5 minutes to boot
+>> whereas it was taking 1 minute under Mageia 1.
+>> And on my working desktop (SSD), Mageia 1 was booting in 3 seconds and
+>> now it takes 1 minute.
+>>
+>> Here are my bootcharts:
+>> - Lenovo X220 with HDD :
+>> http://damsweb.net/trash/bootchart-mga_cauldron-lenovo_x220.png
+>>
+>> - Homemade core i3 + SSD :
+>> http://damsweb.net/trash/bootchart-mga_cauldron-ssd.png
+>>
+>> Does anyone encounter the same issue?
+>> Any advice on this and how to fix it?
+>
+> One obvious issue (which is on my todo list) is that prefdm.service
+> currently has a hard dep on network-up. We need this if the user has
+> network based auth (e.g. ldap, NIS etc.)
+>
+> In your SSD case, this accounts for at least 25s delay.
+>
+> We need to have a little service (or something in drakauth) that
+> adds/removes the dependency on network-up when a network authentication
+> mechanism is detected.
+>
+> Not sure how we handled this in mga1 (possibly not at all!).
+
+There is /etc/init.d/network-auth which is enabled if needed (probably
+in drakauth code)
+