Still no joy. On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:31:40PM -0500, Miark wrote: > Is autofs running? If so, try turning it off with drakxservices. > > Miark >
Is drakxservices the thing you get to turn services on and off from the MCC? If so, autofs wsa not even listed as something to turn on or off. It really seems as though the system is locking up for times varying from thirty seconds to over a minute now and then. Mounting a CD does eventually work (today I mounted an old OS/2 shareware CD flawlessly, except that it took four minutes). Now and then id does a read from the CD (as evidenced by the drive light), with *huge* time delays. I'm used to it doing a few reads in less than a second on the old SuSE system wtill running on the same hardware (dual boot, SuSE and Mandrake) and returning immediately afteward with a successful mount. So I wonder what could cause the delays. I sat and watched in boot Mandrake 9.0 today. The first noticeable delay was a minute and a half or so starting devFS demon. Id announces that it is starting the devFS demon, and about 90 seconds later (times without a clock) it announces success. The only other delays during boot are understandable timeouts:waiting for adsl to come up (the modem was off) and waiting to synchronize the clock (again, no net). Is ninety-seconds a normal time to take to start up devFS? Could startup delay with devFS be related to the slow CD mount problem? Is it possible to reconfigure to skip devFS somehow (I suspect not, but I'll ask anyway.) What does devFS do, anyway? -- hendrik > > > On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:11:45 -0500 > Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 05:45:19PM -0500, Miark wrote: > > > It's simpler to type the following on the commandline as root: > > > > > > supermount disable > > > > > > > Well, I did this. > > > > > and to make it permanent: > > > > > > supermount -i disable > > > > And then I did this to make it permanent. > > > > Now it takes five and a half minutes to mount the second Mandrake 9.0 installation > > disk. The problem is still not fixed. > > > > Once mounted, however, > > > > ls /mnt/cdrom > > > > is nearly instantaeous, but > > > > ls /mnt/cdrom/Boot > > > > took 34 seconds. I unmounted, > > > > umount /mnt/cdrom > > > > and the umount finished in only 14 seconds. > > > > Presumably tht ls /mnt/cdrom could be satisfied from some cache or other, > > and didn't actually have to consult the CD. > > > > In case it is relevant (supermount seems to work by changing /etc/fstab), > > here's the contents of /etc/fstab: > > > > ----- cut here > > /dev/hdb8 / ext2 defaults 1 1 > > /dev/hda8 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 > > none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 > > /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom iso9660 > > codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-15,noauto,nosuid,ro,user,nodev,exec 0 0 > > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat > > codepage=850,sync,unhide,noauto,iocharset=iso8859-15,nosuid,user,exec,nodev > > 0 0 > > /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0 > > none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > > /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > > > /dev/hda5 /suse ext2 defaults 1 1 > > /dev/hdb11 /home2 ext2 defaults 1 2 > > ----- cot here > > > > No mention of supermount anywhere. > > > > -- hendrik > > > > > > > > Miark > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 16:41:45 -0500 > > > Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I solved this problem by disabling supermount on my removable drives.You can > > > > do this in the Mandrake Control Center -> Mount Points. ->CD Rom or Floppy -> > > > > Options -> supermount. > > > > -- > > > > Michael Shinobi > > > > Mandrake 9.0 > > > > http://lazyalfalfa.tripod.com/ > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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