On Sat, 2004-07-24 at 12:56 -0700, Larry Johnson KISE wrote:
Boot times went to over 10 minutes.
Yikes!
If you monitor the boot messages on the console, is there any particular point where it hangs, or is the slowness evenly distributed, so to speak?
Yes, at the end of a line: Sound driver: ....usb-audio
One idea is that it has something to do with ACPI, since that changed dramatically in 9.0. Have you tried booting with acpi=off or acpi=pci as a kernel parameter?
Setting acpi=off in the Grub kernel options made a big difference.
Thanks Anders.
Oops, Yikes & Worse Turns out that a warm reboot reduces the time to logon, not acpi=off. (doesn't need to reload drivers?) So I bit the bullet and did a fresh and complete installation. Now my boot times are ***9 minutes***, consistently. I set HOTPLUG_DEBUG to verbose and see a lot of time and waits with hotplug messages in SYSLOG. So I tried NOHOTPLUG=YES as a boot parameter, and then NOHOTPLUG=YES and NOCOLDPLUG=YES, but boot is still hanging in the same places - it seems that these boot parameters don't work in 9.0. ----- I'm about ready to conclude that the SuSE desktop is not ready for prime time, and that SuSE doesn't care. I know that's harsh - but skimpy and apparently inaccurate documentation along with too much stuff that does not work like HP printers/Scanners (only works under root)/PC Webcams and meaningless error messages/unstable applications/too much system maintenance have tolerance limits in users, especially me. Too much time, not enough results. I short, I'm bummed about it. Larry Johnson, KeepItSimpleEngineering,Inc.