Package: console-setup Version: 1.132 Followup-For: Bug #763695 Dear Maintainer,
inspired by the recent talk about systemd utilities I analyzed my boot process on my lower-level laptop (CPU is ok but the harddisk is plain old mechanic thing). And it's even worse than in jak's original report, it spends 5s there and the HDD seems to be pretty busy. Just have a look at it: https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~bloch/.wearetheborg/ $ wc -l log 23053 log $ grep ioctl log | wc -l 14035 OVER 9000 ioctls! Are you kidding me? $ grep 'open\|read\|stat' log | wc -l 3881 OVER 3000 filesystem related syscalls. That all is needed to just configure the console? Seriously? Please find a way to cut down this activity, there must be a way to do that. Regards, Eduard. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.1.5+ (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages console-setup depends on: ii console-setup-linux 1.132 ii debconf 1.5.57 ii keyboard-configuration 1.132 ii xkb-data 2.14-1 console-setup recommends no packages. Versions of packages console-setup suggests: ii locales 2.19-19 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian14 Versions of packages keyboard-configuration depends on: ii debconf 1.5.57 ii initscripts 2.88dsf-59 ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-9 Versions of packages console-setup-linux depends on: ii kbd 1.15.5-2 ii keyboard-configuration 1.132 console-setup-linux suggests no packages. Versions of packages console-setup is related to: pn console-common <none> pn console-data <none> pn console-tools <none> ii kbd 1.15.5-2 -- debconf information: * keyboard-configuration/ctrl_alt_bksp: true console-setup/fontsize-text47: 8x14 * keyboard-configuration/variantcode: console-setup/charmap47: UTF-8 * keyboard-configuration/modelcode: pc105 keyboard-configuration/unsupported_options: true * keyboard-configuration/layout: console-setup/fontsize: 8x14 console-setup/use_system_font: * keyboard-configuration/layoutcode: de * keyboard-configuration/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true console-setup/framebuffer_only: * keyboard-configuration/toggle: No toggling * keyboard-configuration/variant: Deutsch * keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap: de * console-setup/fontsize-fb47: 8x14 * keyboard-configuration/compose: No compose key * keyboard-configuration/other: console-setup/codeset47: # Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and Turkic languages console-setup/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_options: true * keyboard-configuration/altgr: The default for the keyboard layout debian-installer/console-setup-udeb/title: * console-setup/fontface47: Fixed console-setup/guess_font: * keyboard-configuration/model: Generische PC-Tastatur mit 105 Tasten (Intl) keyboard-configuration/unsupported_layout: true * keyboard-configuration/optionscode: terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp * keyboard-configuration/switch: No temporary switch keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_layout: true console-setup/codesetcode: Lat15