johnd Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 hi After doing an update on a machine recently installed with Mandriva 2009 the boot process takes forever - it stalls at udev for ages then picks up to full speed again after a long wait. Any ideas - I don't really want to install again -not a major - but downloading all the updates again is! I cannot spot anything strange in the logs. Thanks John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tux99 Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 (edited) hi After doing an update on a machine recently installed with Mandriva 2009 the boot process takes forever - it stalls at udev for ages then picks up to full speed again after a long wait. Any ideas - I don't really want to install again -not a major - but downloading all the updates again is! I cannot spot anything strange in the logs. Thanks John Happens to me too, not forever, but maybe 15 seconds or so, do you maybe have a Nvidia GPU? I never bothered investigating it as I thought it's relaterd to loading the Nvidia kernel module which appears with a message right after that at boot. Edited February 16, 2009 by tux99 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnd Posted February 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 Happens to me too, not forever, but maybe 15 seconds or so, do you maybe have a Nvidia GPU?I never bothered investigating it as I thought it's relaterd to loading the Nvidia kernel module which appears with a message right after that at boot. No - no Nvidia GPU - just simple onboard graphics. Takes several minutes to get going. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tux99 Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 No - no Nvidia GPU - just simple onboard graphics. Takes several minutes to get going. Onboard graphics can be Nvidia too, but more often they are Intel, do you know what yours is? Also, what devices are connected to you PC (both internal cards and external USB or firewire or others)? Maybe try disconnecting all (including any internal add-on cards) but the essentials (keyboard/mouse/monitor) and see if it still happens. If not, then reattach one by one all devices until you find the culprit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medo3891 Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 Maybe it's not udev that's taking a long time. When you reach the GRUB menu, press F2, type this at the end of the command line that appears, then hit enter: nopinit See if it hangs at something else other than udev. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnd Posted February 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2009 Thanks for your replies: 1. There is really nothing to disconnect - this machine is really basic with on-board everything. 2. nopinit made no difference. I have installed Mandriva on a number of identical machines with no trouble apart from a NIC card functioning slowly on one (reinstall fixed). It was going fine before the software update. Looks like a reinstall might have to happen! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted February 17, 2009 Report Share Posted February 17, 2009 Before a re-install it may be worth having a look at the udev rules. It looks as though udev is trying to start something that isn't there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 17, 2009 Report Share Posted February 17, 2009 You could disable udev and see if it goes any faster, and then re-enable it again later: chkconfig udev off assuming that udev is the service name, unless it's udevd. You can check by doing: chkconfig --list | grep -i udev which will filter the result for the udev service. Then, once it's set to off, reboot and see what happens. At worst, you can re-enable it if it does the same problem. Easier than trying to figure out which udev rule is at fault, but if it does solve it, then you can check the logs for udev possibilities. I'd also check /var/log/messages though and dmesg for more info, in case something obvious is in here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medo3891 Posted February 18, 2009 Report Share Posted February 18, 2009 File a bug on it at https://qa.mandriva.com/index.cgi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnd Posted February 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2009 Got it sussed eventually - removed the old CDROM I had installed in the system unit and everything came right! Must have been faulty? Thanks everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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