On Saturday 20 November 2004 22:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok, apologies for pressing send on my email program too soon (see previous > message). And million thanks to everyone who contributed with their ideas. > > The problem is now solved (wait, there is the next problem). I followed the > strategy of disabling services and re-enabling them. Now I found the > offending service (or one causing this behavior). That is the good news. > The bad news is that it is DEVFSD. > > Ok, I am an end-user, I am trying to use my Linux box purely as my desktop. > Reading the "man" on devfsd left me very confused. Could I just leave > devfsd off (sounds like not so good idea). Or should I do something about > it to get to the bottom of it? Any thoughts?
Same thing happened to me when I upgraded rather than doing a new install. You need to urpme devfsd, urpmi udev and finally, you need to remove the devfs=mount lines from your lilo options. That will switch you over to udev and the delays booting will be gone. -- Bryan Phinney
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