Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (509 mails)

[Kevin Valko <kvalko@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 15 August 2007 02:23:05 am Warren Stockton wrote:
> > problem is).
>
> Try setting "PROMPT_FOR_CONFIRM=yes" in /etc/sysconfig/boot.  You might
> want to set CONFIRM_PROMPT_TIMEOUT to something longer than 5 seconds for
> the first couple of boots.
>
> I had similar problems on a HP dv6400 with some of the 10.3alpha kernels. 
> In my case it turned out to be /etc/init.d/boot.clock and I could lock the
> system at will by running hwclock --systohc or hwclock --hctosys
> (I don't have the problem on the current 10.3beta1 kernel and could never
> quite nail down the root cause when I was seeing the problem on earlier
> kernels.)
>

Thanks for the pointer, that worked but not for the reasons I expected.

Once I set PROMPT_FOR_CONFIRM, I was able to step through the service startup 
and boot properly with both the -default kernel and my own custom kernel.  I 
didn't need to use noapic.

However, booting without PROMPT_FOR_CONFIRM and without noapic produces a 
total lock that occurs at some point between .localfs and .udev-retry, but 
there are no error messages thrown and nothing indicated in the logs that 
would point to where the issue is.  Booting with noapic and without 
PROMPT_FOR_CONFIRM also allows a normal boot, though with the stability 
issues my system experiences with noapic.  Bizarre.

The only thing I can think is that the parallel booting of services is somehow 
causing an error condition in the kernel that doesn't occur when boot 
prompting forces a delay between service starts, or something along those 
lines?  I'll do a round of trial and error, disabling each boot.xxx service 
one by one to see if I can narrow it down, and maybe disabling parallel 
services as well.

As far as the issue with the clock, I do remember running into that with 
earlier kernels, I think it first cropped up in 2.6.20, there was some change 
made that involved acpi, the clock and hpet or something along those lines; I 
remember eliminating the problem by judiciously tweaking my .config settings, 
but the problem seemed to have disappeared for me in recent kernels.  

Any other pointers appreciated...

Thanks,
KV
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