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jackapacka

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Registered: 2006-12-20

Posts: 10

possibly bug in udev?

okay so i've been away from arch for a while, you could say i was exploring other possibilities. anyway i came back yesterday, downloaded the latest iso (Don't Panic), got it all set up no problems. i did notice however that on booting up the Starting Udev uevents took a lot longer than i remember from the past (same computer). it took around 20 seconds, which seemed extreme. anyway after getting all set up i looked around a bit, and tried to disable modules autoload so that i could load the modules i wanted in the modules array (rc.conf). anyway this didnt change a thing, and i found that even when modules autoload was disabled and i had no modules in the modules array, it would still hang on Starting Udev uevents for around 15 seconds. does this not sound bizarre?

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: possibly bug in udev?

10-30 seconds are standard, nothing to worry about.

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regomodo

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Registered: 2007-09-15

Posts: 38

Re: possibly bug in udev?

depends on your hardware. My 448MHz laptop takes about 20seconds to get through udev. my sempron 3100 takes about 7seconds

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Ashren

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2007-06-13

Posts: 1,229

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Re: possibly bug in udev?

jackapacka> I've had this problem since my first installation of Arch. I think it has something to do with the modules that udev are loading. I haven't not found a solution for it.

The strange thing is that my old acer 333mhz pentium II travelmate boots a lot quicker (20 SECS quicker) than my 1 ghz celeron coppermine toshiba satellite.

Which pci drivers are you using? I have a hunch it has something to do with these, because I once compiled my own kernel with these drivers integrated and the problem dissappeared. I forget enable framebuffer on that one though - or something like that.

Here's mine:

00:00.0 Host bridge: ALi Corporation M1644/M1644T Northbridge+Trident (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation PCI to AGP Controller
00:02.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
00:04.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c3)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 01)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533/M1535 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV/V/V+]
00:08.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 Ethernet Pro 100 (rev 0d)
00:11.0 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC100 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (rev 32)
00:11.1 CardBus bridge: Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC100 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support (rev 32)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade XPAi1 (rev 82)
06:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI (rev 01

Last edited by Ashren (2007-11-02 09:04:09)

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tpowa

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From: Lauingen , Germany

Registered: 2004-04-05

Posts: 2,328

Re: possibly bug in udev?

it always depends on your hardware you ahve and it's time for initialisation.
every subsystem can delay, mostly usb,scsi,ata and such.