On Sunday 09 January 2005 09:28, John Lowell wrote: > Sad to say, it's about a week later and I've still no answer to a > question I've raised here a couple times and on the forums also. I > say this in no way to complain but rather to express utter surprize, > actually. There's a lot of first class Linux talent available on this > mailing list so if I've stumped you guys, I've really achieved > something.
There are some more test to do on your side ;-) > I've made a fresh, stage one install on a machine I intend to use as > a webserver. I've done a lot of successful Gentoo installations so > it's not as though I'm an amateur. The install went on without a > hitch but, booting up, I reach the end of the init sequence and > there's a delay of 22 seconds before "Starting local ..." transitions > in to the usual "This is .." and the login prompt. On my three > workstations this transition take no time at all, it's virtually > instantaneous. I have nothing in /etc/conf.d/start.local and my USE= > is limited to -kde. pam is installed. I have no idea what in heaven's > name would cause a delay of this kind. Is an answer to this problem > really so obscure? God knows, maybe it is. > > jlowell If you can exclude pam, you still should check 1) is "lo" device up and working? (I borked lo, time ago on a rh7 box and it took forever to do basilar tasks) 2) hostname dnsdomainname domainname and their config files; IMHO are really tricky to setup and can led to weird delays As a last resort you can create a new runlevel and try to build it step by step to see what is delaying startup. You may exploit /etc/conf.d/local.start not leaving it blank, and to do something really useful instead, such as redirecting ps verbose output to a file, or better, to start in background a watch task including ps... If you have a serial terminal handy (many PDA have vt emulators) you can see if the problem is in /etc/inittab (agetty setup, for example) HTH. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.10, Compiled #2 Mon Dec 27 06:35:03 CET 2004 One 1.53GHz AMD Athlon XP Processor, 1.5GB RAM, 3022.84 Bogomips Total macula -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
