Guest cid Posted February 21, 2003 Report Share Posted February 21, 2003 Anyone else have a problem at bootup where it takes forever to intitialize the eth0 ? I have ADSL, so I thought this was just the time to login to the ADSL provider holding things up. But even when the line is all synced up, and I do a soft reboot, it takes forever for the eht0 to flash OK and continue booting. This probably takes 2 minutes ever reboot. Any ideas? D MDK 9.0 on a Celeron 900 system Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmack Posted February 21, 2003 Report Share Posted February 21, 2003 Don't have any good ideas on how to speedup, but my 9.0 on cable takes about 30-45 sec on the eth0 part of booting. The modem and router have an IP and are synched, but my cpu sits there for a time until it wakes up. I figure it is just part of the boot process, but 2 min sounds too long. Can seem like an eternity. Wonder if it is RAM and CPU dependent too? I run AthlonXP 1.6 and 512MB PC2100 DDR RAM with 266 FSB here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Peo Posted February 21, 2003 Report Share Posted February 21, 2003 I have the same annoyance, but I use dhcp to connect to my LAN so I think it's the dhcpd taking so long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cid Posted February 21, 2003 Report Share Posted February 21, 2003 You may be right, 45 seconds may be more appropriate, 2 min is just a WAG, and probably one born of frustration. I use DHCP to connect to my ADSL as well. Using Xandros, I do not seem to have the same delay in booting, but Xandros doesn't show you the boot up sequence, so I'm not sure at all how long the eth0 boot takes compared to the other tasks. D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perdido Posted February 21, 2003 Report Share Posted February 21, 2003 I have the same problem from a few days ago. I don't know why because it was OK before. I have installed KDE 3.1. Can it be the cause?. I know, it has no sense but I can't explain it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted February 21, 2003 Report Share Posted February 21, 2003 Have you checked your logs in order to extract some info on the issue, for example: dmesg | less or /var/log/messages /var/log/dmesg /var/log/syslog ... ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Peo Posted February 21, 2003 Report Share Posted February 21, 2003 I have the same problem from a few days ago. I don't know why because it was OK before. I have installed KDE 3.1. Can it be the cause?. I know, it has no sense but I can't explain it. No, KDE 3.03 here - same problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perdido Posted February 21, 2003 Report Share Posted February 21, 2003 Have you checked your logs in order to extract some info on the issue, for example: dmesg | less or /var/log/messages /var/log/dmesg /var/log/syslog ... ... My problem is with eth1 (wireless interfaz) because eth0 (ethernet interfaz) is not said to be active at boot. What I have seen in the /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog/ is a lot of messages like these ones: Feb 16 19:30:44 portatil modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-1 Feb 16 19:30:44 portatil modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-2 Feb 16 19:30:44 portatil modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-3 Feb 16 19:30:45 portatil modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-4 Feb 16 19:30:45 portatil modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-5 Feb 16 19:30:45 portatil modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-6 Feb 16 19:30:45 portatil modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-7 Feb 21 14:32:53 portatil modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth2 Feb 21 14:32:53 portatil modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth3 Feb 21 14:32:53 portatil modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module tr0 Feb 21 14:32:53 portatil modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module tr1 Feb 21 14:32:53 portatil modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module tr2 Feb 21 14:32:53 portatil modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module tr3 Feb 21 14:32:53 portatil modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module fddi0 Feb 21 14:32:53 portatil modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module fddi1 Feb 21 14:32:53 portatil modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module fddi2 Feb 21 14:32:53 portatil modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module fddi3 Feb 21 14:32:53 portatil modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth2 Feb 21 14:32:53 portatil modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth3 Feb 21 14:32:53 portatil modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module tr0 Feb 21 14:32:53 portatil modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module tr1 Feb 21 14:32:53 portatil modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module tr2 Feb 21 14:32:53 portatil modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module tr3 Feb 21 14:32:54 portatil modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module fddi0 Feb 21 14:32:54 portatil modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module fddi1 Feb 21 14:32:54 portatil modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module fddi2 Feb 21 14:32:54 portatil modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module fddi3 Could it be the cause of the problem (I don't know anything about it)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmack Posted February 22, 2003 Report Share Posted February 22, 2003 To be more scientific I actually timed my boot this am: 07:30:52 started 07:31:32 to eth0 startup (hd activity but not much) 07:32:40 eth0 finished booting continues 07:33:06 login to X 07:33:55 KDE 3.0.5a loaded and ready to go Total 3:00:03 to boot... I don't have any servers or other services installed, just a basic workstation config. For fun, I started my WinME laptop (business use) at same time. It beat ML by about 10 seconds, but because I have a registry backup utility it ends up about the same before you can use it. It shares the cable connection via a router that provides dhcp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted February 22, 2003 Report Share Posted February 22, 2003 Could it be the cause of the problem (I don't know anything about it)? It is a problem, though a little problem that you might want to fix in a future. But surely that is NOT the problem ;) Those messages are produced in just one second Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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