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rem1x

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Registered: 2008-10-22

Posts: 2

pacman new kernel very slowly on my new laptop

hi, I get a new lap top, Lenovo Y430-tsi, intel t6400,nvidia 9300gs

i use pacman to upgrade my system,and when pacman install a new kernel ,it takes more than 40 mins to finish, espcially make the sata , scsi modules, how can I fix the problem?

I use ext4 filesystem.

broch

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From: L.A. California

Registered: 2006-11-13

Posts: 975

Re: pacman new kernel very slowly on my new laptop

I assume that you are running default arch kernel?
check
messages.log
and run dmesg (just after boot) and check for timeouts/errors

fsk141

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Registered: 2007-10-17

Posts: 14

Re: pacman new kernel very slowly on my new laptop

I wouldn't use ext4 try using ext3... hehe, anywho, what do you mean by finish? It might be helpful if you post your pacman console readout into a pastbin, and paste it here? It is downloading the packages, and taking a long time to mkinitcpio?

rem1x

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Registered: 2008-10-22

Posts: 2

Re: pacman new kernel very slowly on my new laptop

yes, it takes a long long time to mkinitcpio.

[2009-03-13 00:03] ==> Building image "fallback"
[2009-03-13 00:03] ==> Running command: /sbin/mkinitcpio -k 2.6.28-ARCH -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/kernel26-fallback.img -S autodetect
[2009-03-13 00:03] :: Begin dry run
[2009-03-13 00:03] :: Parsing hook [base]
[2009-03-13 00:07] :: Parsing hook [udev]
[2009-03-13 00:07] :: Parsing hook [pata]
[2009-03-13 00:20] :: Parsing hook [scsi]
[2009-03-13 00:34] :: Parsing hook [sata]
[2009-03-13 00:38] :: Parsing hook [filesystems]
[2009-03-13 00:45] :: Generating module dependencies
[2009-03-13 00:45] :: Generating image '/boot/kernel26-fallback.img'...SUCCESS
[2009-03-13 00:45] ==> SUCCESS