[Cooker] [Bug 5175] [mc] unacceptably long startup time
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5175 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-24-09 07:37 --- On boot to runlevel 1 there is no startup delay. I removed read and exec permissions from /usr/sbin/drakeupdate_fstab, and the startup delay after runlevel 3 boot was eliminated. -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: UNCONFIRMED creation_date: description: mc startup has actually been fubar since at least 9.0, possibly before that, but I can't remember. I haven't stopwatched it, but if started immediately upon 1st login after boot, it must be taking at least one minute, a seeming eternity, both in 9.1 and 9.2rc1. Upon entering mc at shell prompt, the screen is blanked, cursor goes to bottom left, and nothing happens for a while. Eventually, some liblow error messages quickly scroll up the screen too fast to read, and mc becomes ready to use. Hardware is rather old, P200 for rc1, with 128 MB RAM & PCI graphics card, but immaterially better on K6/2-500 with 256 MB RAM and same graphics adapter for 9.1, and on a P3-450 with 768 MB RAM and G450 graphics adapter..
[Cooker] [Bug 5175] [mc] unacceptably long startup time
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5175 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-23-09 19:35 --- These are what was showing up among the top 10 or so that never used more CPU than top: part.script init keventd kapmd ksoftirqd_CPU0 kswapd bdflush kupdated kinoded These used more CPU than top: devfsd (up to 50%, but usually less than top) drakeupdat_fsta (up to 97.7%, dropping sometimes to only about 60%) The last pretty steadily stayed above top at very high CPU. -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: UNCONFIRMED creation_date: description: mc startup has actually been fubar since at least 9.0, possibly before that, but I can't remember. I haven't stopwatched it, but if started immediately upon 1st login after boot, it must be taking at least one minute, a seeming eternity, both in 9.1 and 9.2rc1. Upon entering mc at shell prompt, the screen is blanked, cursor goes to bottom left, and nothing happens for a while. Eventually, some liblow error messages quickly scroll up the screen too fast to read, and mc becomes ready to use. Hardware is rather old, P200 for rc1, with 128 MB RAM & PCI graphics card, but immaterially better on K6/2-500 with 256 MB RAM and same graphics adapter for 9.1, and on a P3-450 with 768 MB RAM and G450 graphics adapter..
[Cooker] [Bug 5175] [mc] unacceptably long startup time
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5175 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-23-09 18:46 --- output of ps is not usefull, as it doesn't show cpu usage of each apps. Try running top in another console and check yourself if an app is slowing your CPU (but I'm not sure it is the case). -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: UNCONFIRMED creation_date: description: mc startup has actually been fubar since at least 9.0, possibly before that, but I can't remember. I haven't stopwatched it, but if started immediately upon 1st login after boot, it must be taking at least one minute, a seeming eternity, both in 9.1 and 9.2rc1. Upon entering mc at shell prompt, the screen is blanked, cursor goes to bottom left, and nothing happens for a while. Eventually, some liblow error messages quickly scroll up the screen too fast to read, and mc becomes ready to use. Hardware is rather old, P200 for rc1, with 128 MB RAM & PCI graphics card, but immaterially better on K6/2-500 with 256 MB RAM and same graphics adapter for 9.1, and on a P3-450 with 768 MB RAM and G450 graphics adapter..
[Cooker] [Bug 5175] [mc] unacceptably long startup time
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5175 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-23-09 18:27 --- Created an attachment (id=892) --> (http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/attachment.cgi?id=892&action=view) output of 'ps -A' on 9.2 cooker box AFAICR, whatever is automatically starting on boot has not been changed by me from what the installer set up, except the choice of display manager, plus adding gpm from comment 23 URL as requested. The ps -A listing was done immediately upon boot and login as root on vc1. Only after ps -A did I start mc, which took about 110 seconds. Security (AFAIK) on this cooker box is as follows: 1-During install, the default security level (minimum?) was accepted 2-During install, no users were added after providing the root password 3-After install, one user was added: 'useradd -u 500 someuser', then 'passwd -d someuser' 4-After install, kdebase-kdm was installed and made active via DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm in /etc/sysconfig/desktop. 5-After kdebase-kdm was made login manager, I logged into X as root and configured kdm via KDE Control Center, changing info on tabs "Users" and "Convenience". a-I unhid root. b-I changed User Image Source to "User,admin". c-I changed User Images for user someuser to ic-tux.png. d-I changed Preselect User to "Previous". e-I checked "Focus password". f-I checked the box "Enable password-less logins". If you want more info, please tell me how to get what you want. -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: UNCONFIRMED creation_date: description: mc startup has actually been fubar since at least 9.0, possibly before that, but I can't remember. I haven't stopwatched it, but if started immediately upon 1st login after boot, it must be taking at least one minute, a seeming eternity, both in 9.1 and 9.2rc1. Upon entering mc at shell prompt, the screen is blanked, cursor goes to bottom left, and nothing happens for a while. Eventually, some liblow error messages quickly scroll up the screen too fast to read, and mc becomes ready to use. Hardware is rather old, P200 for rc1, with 128 MB RAM & PCI graphics card, but immaterially better on K6/2-500 with 256 MB RAM and same graphics adapter for 9.1, and on a P3-450 with 768 MB RAM and G450 graphics adapter..
[Cooker] [Bug 5175] [mc] unacceptably long startup time
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5175 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-23-09 16:41 --- Please, stop ranting people who try to help you.. Again, I try to duplicate this problem and I couldn't, even after boot. And you haven't respond to my question where I was asking you to check what programs were running when you are running a "long to respond" mc ? What are your security settings ? (/me hopes it is not an msec problem...) -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: UNCONFIRMED creation_date: description: mc startup has actually been fubar since at least 9.0, possibly before that, but I can't remember. I haven't stopwatched it, but if started immediately upon 1st login after boot, it must be taking at least one minute, a seeming eternity, both in 9.1 and 9.2rc1. Upon entering mc at shell prompt, the screen is blanked, cursor goes to bottom left, and nothing happens for a while. Eventually, some liblow error messages quickly scroll up the screen too fast to read, and mc becomes ready to use. Hardware is rather old, P200 for rc1, with 128 MB RAM & PCI graphics card, but immaterially better on K6/2-500 with 256 MB RAM and same graphics adapter for 9.1, and on a P3-450 with 768 MB RAM and G450 graphics adapter..
[Cooker] [Bug 5175] [mc] unacceptably long startup time
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5175 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-23-09 16:28 --- "you didn't say if you had rebooted or not." Buchan, have *you* tried mc immediately upon boot? That's an *absolute* requirement to see the problem at its extreme. Once a couple minutes or so have passed since boot, the delay is gone. So, yes, I did say, though implicitly, that I had rebooted, since that is how the problem gets seen at all. Buchan, I previously wrote here that the problem exists on many mdk 9.1 and cooker 9.2 installs. It happens/happened on EVERY one I've done, including several of cooker on one machine, and one or more on at least 5 other machines, including yet another of 9.1 only last night, and one that I personally did not do. It simply doesn't matter whether gpm is running or not on any of them. You're simply choosing to ignore that this is anything but an isolated incident, that so many installs can exhibit the same broken behavior. -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: UNCONFIRMED creation_date: description: mc startup has actually been fubar since at least 9.0, possibly before that, but I can't remember. I haven't stopwatched it, but if started immediately upon 1st login after boot, it must be taking at least one minute, a seeming eternity, both in 9.1 and 9.2rc1. Upon entering mc at shell prompt, the screen is blanked, cursor goes to bottom left, and nothing happens for a while. Eventually, some liblow error messages quickly scroll up the screen too fast to read, and mc becomes ready to use. Hardware is rather old, P200 for rc1, with 128 MB RAM & PCI graphics card, but immaterially better on K6/2-500 with 256 MB RAM and same graphics adapter for 9.1, and on a P3-450 with 768 MB RAM and G450 graphics adapter..
[Cooker] [Bug 5175] [mc] unacceptably long startup time
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5175 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-23-09 12:19 --- > I have no problem with it working with a mouse, just a big problem for it to > depend on a package I don't need. Who said anything about that??? We're just trying to see if it has an effect or not. > As I said, it works fine in SuSE 8.1 with no gpm running or even installed. > In RedHat 9, I did 'chkconfig --level 2 gpm off' and rebooted to runlevel 2. > Mc still works fine there, so I doubt gpm has anything material to do with > this bug. Well, who says Redhat and SuSE build mc with gpm support? > In comment 25 I said I installed gpm. That put it in /etc/rc.d/init.d, which > NAICT means the lack of improvement after installing gpm meant no improvment > with gpm running. It having an init script in /etc/rc.d/init.d doesn't necessarily mean it starts at boot, and you didn't say if you had rebooted or not. But it seems like you know more about mc, gpm, mandrake than anyone, and you don't want to try what other people suggest, so I don't see why I should waste my time - hopefully the maintainer can fix this, but mc works fine on all the machines I have tried it on. -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: UNCONFIRMED creation_date: description: mc startup has actually been fubar since at least 9.0, possibly before that, but I can't remember. I haven't stopwatched it, but if started immediately upon 1st login after boot, it must be taking at least one minute, a seeming eternity, both in 9.1 and 9.2rc1. Upon entering mc at shell prompt, the screen is blanked, cursor goes to bottom left, and nothing happens for a while. Eventually, some liblow error messages quickly scroll up the screen too fast to read, and mc becomes ready to use. Hardware is rather old, P200 for rc1, with 128 MB RAM & PCI graphics card, but immaterially better on K6/2-500 with 256 MB RAM and same graphics adapter for 9.1, and on a P3-450 with 768 MB RAM and G450 graphics adapter..
[Cooker] [Bug 5175] [mc] unacceptably long startup time
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5175 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-22-09 21:23 --- Depends on a package and compatibility with a package should not be equivalent. I have no problem with it working with a mouse, just a big problem for it to depend on a package I don't need. As I said, it works fine in SuSE 8.1 with no gpm running or even installed. In RedHat 9, I did 'chkconfig --level 2 gpm off' and rebooted to runlevel 2. Mc still works fine there, so I doubt gpm has anything material to do with this bug. FWIW, mc-4.5.46-1mdk in Mandrake 7.1 works fine too. In comment 25 I said I installed gpm. That put it in /etc/rc.d/init.d, which NAICT means the lack of improvement after installing gpm meant no improvment with gpm running. -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: UNCONFIRMED creation_date: description: mc startup has actually been fubar since at least 9.0, possibly before that, but I can't remember. I haven't stopwatched it, but if started immediately upon 1st login after boot, it must be taking at least one minute, a seeming eternity, both in 9.1 and 9.2rc1. Upon entering mc at shell prompt, the screen is blanked, cursor goes to bottom left, and nothing happens for a while. Eventually, some liblow error messages quickly scroll up the screen too fast to read, and mc becomes ready to use. Hardware is rather old, P200 for rc1, with 128 MB RAM & PCI graphics card, but immaterially better on K6/2-500 with 256 MB RAM and same graphics adapter for 9.1, and on a P3-450 with 768 MB RAM and G450 graphics adapter..
[Cooker] [Bug 5175] [mc] unacceptably long startup time
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5175 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-22-09 19:57 --- > I have no use for a mouse on tty[1-6]. Maybe other people do? I have no use for a ZIP drive, does that mean it should not be supported? > Why should mc depend on gpm? Who knows, but would you just try for once with gpm running, and see if it is related to the problem? (it doesn't seem you have tried with it running) Or, maybe you don't want others to help try and find the cause of the problem (mc works fine for me, with gpm running or not, but I just thought it might affect you) -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: UNCONFIRMED creation_date: description: mc startup has actually been fubar since at least 9.0, possibly before that, but I can't remember. I haven't stopwatched it, but if started immediately upon 1st login after boot, it must be taking at least one minute, a seeming eternity, both in 9.1 and 9.2rc1. Upon entering mc at shell prompt, the screen is blanked, cursor goes to bottom left, and nothing happens for a while. Eventually, some liblow error messages quickly scroll up the screen too fast to read, and mc becomes ready to use. Hardware is rather old, P200 for rc1, with 128 MB RAM & PCI graphics card, but immaterially better on K6/2-500 with 256 MB RAM and same graphics adapter for 9.1, and on a P3-450 with 768 MB RAM and G450 graphics adapter..
[Cooker] [Bug 5175] [mc] unacceptably long startup time
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5175 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-22-09 19:20 --- First I tried only the comment 23 lib packages. No improvement. Then I tried the comment 23 gpm package. Still no improvement. -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: UNCONFIRMED creation_date: description: mc startup has actually been fubar since at least 9.0, possibly before that, but I can't remember. I haven't stopwatched it, but if started immediately upon 1st login after boot, it must be taking at least one minute, a seeming eternity, both in 9.1 and 9.2rc1. Upon entering mc at shell prompt, the screen is blanked, cursor goes to bottom left, and nothing happens for a while. Eventually, some liblow error messages quickly scroll up the screen too fast to read, and mc becomes ready to use. Hardware is rather old, P200 for rc1, with 128 MB RAM & PCI graphics card, but immaterially better on K6/2-500 with 256 MB RAM and same graphics adapter for 9.1, and on a P3-450 with 768 MB RAM and G450 graphics adapter..
[Cooker] [Bug 5175] [mc] unacceptably long startup time
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5175 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-22-09 18:48 --- Kernel mention was entirely for the purpose of landmarking the install on which comment 21 was based. I have no use for a mouse on tty[1-6]. Why should mc depend on gpm? rhl9.0host# rpm -qa | grep mc-4 mc-4.6.0-4 rhl9.0host# rpm -qa | grep gpm-1 gpm-1.19.3-27 rhl9.0host# ps -A | grep gpm 1611 ? 00:00:00 gpm rhl9.0host# suse8.1host# rpm -qa | grep mc-4 mc-4.5.55-416 suse8.1host# rpm -qa | grep gpm gpm-1.20.1-46 suse8.1host# ps -A | grep gpm suse8.1host# mdk9.1host# rpm -qa | grep mc-4 mc-4.6.0-1mdk mdk9.1host# rpm -qa | grep gpm libgpm1-1.20.1-2mdk mdk9.1host# ps -A | grep gpm mdk9.1host# mdk9.2host# rpm -qa | grep mc-4 mc-4.6.0-4mdk mdk9.2host# rpm -qa | grep gpm libgpm1-1.20.1-9mdk libgpm1-devel-1.20.1-9mdk mdk9.2host# ps -A | grep gpm mdk9.2host# Next: trying the packages in comment 23 -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: UNCONFIRMED creation_date: description: mc startup has actually been fubar since at least 9.0, possibly before that, but I can't remember. I haven't stopwatched it, but if started immediately upon 1st login after boot, it must be taking at least one minute, a seeming eternity, both in 9.1 and 9.2rc1. Upon entering mc at shell prompt, the screen is blanked, cursor goes to bottom left, and nothing happens for a while. Eventually, some liblow error messages quickly scroll up the screen too fast to read, and mc becomes ready to use. Hardware is rather old, P200 for rc1, with 128 MB RAM & PCI graphics card, but immaterially better on K6/2-500 with 256 MB RAM and same graphics adapter for 9.1, and on a P3-450 with 768 MB RAM and G450 graphics adapter..
[Cooker] [Bug 5175] [mc] unacceptably long startup time
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5175 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-22-09 16:24 --- Could you try test packages available at http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~fcrozat/gpm/ ? -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: UNCONFIRMED creation_date: description: mc startup has actually been fubar since at least 9.0, possibly before that, but I can't remember. I haven't stopwatched it, but if started immediately upon 1st login after boot, it must be taking at least one minute, a seeming eternity, both in 9.1 and 9.2rc1. Upon entering mc at shell prompt, the screen is blanked, cursor goes to bottom left, and nothing happens for a while. Eventually, some liblow error messages quickly scroll up the screen too fast to read, and mc becomes ready to use. Hardware is rather old, P200 for rc1, with 128 MB RAM & PCI graphics card, but immaterially better on K6/2-500 with 256 MB RAM and same graphics adapter for 9.1, and on a P3-450 with 768 MB RAM and G450 graphics adapter..
[Cooker] [Bug 5175] [mc] unacceptably long startup time
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5175 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-22-09 12:20 --- Felix, this has nothing to do with the kernel, since it works fine on all Mandrake kernels I have ever run mc on. But, I usually have gpm running. Do you have it running? Was it running on Redhat and SuSE? -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: UNCONFIRMED creation_date: description: mc startup has actually been fubar since at least 9.0, possibly before that, but I can't remember. I haven't stopwatched it, but if started immediately upon 1st login after boot, it must be taking at least one minute, a seeming eternity, both in 9.1 and 9.2rc1. Upon entering mc at shell prompt, the screen is blanked, cursor goes to bottom left, and nothing happens for a while. Eventually, some liblow error messages quickly scroll up the screen too fast to read, and mc becomes ready to use. Hardware is rather old, P200 for rc1, with 128 MB RAM & PCI graphics card, but immaterially better on K6/2-500 with 256 MB RAM and same graphics adapter for 9.1, and on a P3-450 with 768 MB RAM and G450 graphics adapter..
[Cooker] [Bug 5175] [mc] unacceptably long startup time
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5175 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-20-09 19:26 --- Last boot with kernel -2.4.22-10 took 122 seconds to start mc. With SuSE 8.1 and RedHat 9.0, starting mc immediately upon boot and login is instant, and with no error messages. -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: UNCONFIRMED creation_date: description: mc startup has actually been fubar since at least 9.0, possibly before that, but I can't remember. I haven't stopwatched it, but if started immediately upon 1st login after boot, it must be taking at least one minute, a seeming eternity, both in 9.1 and 9.2rc1. Upon entering mc at shell prompt, the screen is blanked, cursor goes to bottom left, and nothing happens for a while. Eventually, some liblow error messages quickly scroll up the screen too fast to read, and mc becomes ready to use. Hardware is rather old, P200 for rc1, with 128 MB RAM & PCI graphics card, but immaterially better on K6/2-500 with 256 MB RAM and same graphics adapter for 9.1, and on a P3-450 with 768 MB RAM and G450 graphics adapter..
[Cooker] [Bug 5175] [mc] unacceptably long startup time
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5175 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-17-09 18:41 --- #/etc/init.d/gpm stop /etc/init.d/gpm: no such file or directory. "Are you sure your system is not busy doing something else or than network is already working properly ? Running top in another console might be helpful.." Whatever it may be busy doing is something set up to be doing by the Mandrake 9.1 and 9.2 installation programs. As I have repeatedly written, IMMEDIATELY upon availability of login prompt, IMMEDIATELY upon booting, the FIRST thing I do upon logging in is 'mc', on tty1. Anything else that may be going on has nothing to do with anything I did, other than in package selection and configuration during install. This ALWAYS happens on EVERY install on EVERY system since 9.0. "The way startup is done now is causing X server to be displayed before all services are started and running." I have noticed this, and don't understand why it happens. I wish X would start only after all other services have been started. -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: UNCONFIRMED creation_date: description: mc startup has actually been fubar since at least 9.0, possibly before that, but I can't remember. I haven't stopwatched it, but if started immediately upon 1st login after boot, it must be taking at least one minute, a seeming eternity, both in 9.1 and 9.2rc1. Upon entering mc at shell prompt, the screen is blanked, cursor goes to bottom left, and nothing happens for a while. Eventually, some liblow error messages quickly scroll up the screen too fast to read, and mc becomes ready to use. Hardware is rather old, P200 for rc1, with 128 MB RAM & PCI graphics card, but immaterially better on K6/2-500 with 256 MB RAM and same graphics adapter for 9.1, and on a P3-450 with 768 MB RAM and G450 graphics adapter..
[Cooker] [Bug 5175] [mc] unacceptably long startup time
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5175 [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added CC||[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-17-09 18:37 --- Hmm, stew, I'm not sure your patch will fix this problem, since it fixes libgpm code AFTER connect and it seems connect is the one which is causing problem (I'm not 100% sure of that, it might be code just after that call).. Fred L, could you have a look at libgpm ? -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: UNCONFIRMED creation_date: description: mc startup has actually been fubar since at least 9.0, possibly before that, but I can't remember. I haven't stopwatched it, but if started immediately upon 1st login after boot, it must be taking at least one minute, a seeming eternity, both in 9.1 and 9.2rc1. Upon entering mc at shell prompt, the screen is blanked, cursor goes to bottom left, and nothing happens for a while. Eventually, some liblow error messages quickly scroll up the screen too fast to read, and mc becomes ready to use. Hardware is rather old, P200 for rc1, with 128 MB RAM & PCI graphics card, but immaterially better on K6/2-500 with 256 MB RAM and same graphics adapter for 9.1, and on a P3-450 with 768 MB RAM and G450 graphics adapter..
Re: [Cooker] [Bug 5175] [mc] unacceptably long startup time
[fcrozat] wrote: > http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5175 > --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-17-09 17:38 --- > Ok, it seems to be caused by "connect (..., "/dev/gpmctl)" which is taking 2 > minutes to timeout.. I tried to put this in the bug, but qa.mandrakesoft.com has become unreachable. #/etc/init.d/gpm stop /etc/init.d/gpm: no such file or directory. "Are you sure your system is not busy doing something else or than network is already working properly ? Running top in another console might be helpful.." Whatever it may be busy doing is something set up to be doing by the Mandrake 9.1 and 9.2 installation programs. As I have repeatedly written, IMMEDIATELY upon availability of login prompt, IMMEDIATELY upon booting, the FIRST thing I do upon logging in is 'mc', on tty1. Anything else that may be going on has nothing to do with anything I did, other than in package selection and configuration during install. This ALWAYS happens on EVERY install on EVERY system since 9.0. "The way startup is done now is causing X server to be displayed before all services are started and running." I have noticed this, and don't understand why it happens. I wish X would start only after all other services have been started.
Re: [Cooker] [Bug 5175] [mc] unacceptably long startup time
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, [fcrozat] wrote: > http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5175 > > > > > > --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-17-09 17:38 --- > Ok, it seems to be caused by "connect (..., "/dev/gpmctl)" which is taking 2 > minutes to timeout.. > > Are you sure your system is not busy doing something else or than network is > already working properly ? Running top in another console might be helpful.. > > It could be also a gpm problem.. > > Try running /etc/init.d/gpm stop before running mc to see if this fixes the > problem.. > > The way startup is done now is causing X server to be displayed before all > services are started and running.. > FWIW, I had another conversation with a cdialog user, where his dialog scripts exhibited similar behavior, when gpmd isn't running. cdialog is built against libgpm, as is mc I believe. Applying this patch to gpm solved his issue: http://peoples.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/cooker-ppc/gpm-1.20.1-handle-no-gpmctl-gracefully.bz2 -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
[Cooker] [Bug 5175] [mc] unacceptably long startup time
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5175 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-17-09 17:38 --- Ok, it seems to be caused by "connect (..., "/dev/gpmctl)" which is taking 2 minutes to timeout.. Are you sure your system is not busy doing something else or than network is already working properly ? Running top in another console might be helpful.. It could be also a gpm problem.. Try running /etc/init.d/gpm stop before running mc to see if this fixes the problem.. The way startup is done now is causing X server to be displayed before all services are started and running.. -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: NEEDINFO creation_date: description: mc startup has actually been fubar since at least 9.0, possibly before that, but I can't remember. I haven't stopwatched it, but if started immediately upon 1st login after boot, it must be taking at least one minute, a seeming eternity, both in 9.1 and 9.2rc1. Upon entering mc at shell prompt, the screen is blanked, cursor goes to bottom left, and nothing happens for a while. Eventually, some liblow error messages quickly scroll up the screen too fast to read, and mc becomes ready to use. Hardware is rather old, P200 for rc1, with 128 MB RAM & PCI graphics card, but immaterially better on K6/2-500 with 256 MB RAM and same graphics adapter for 9.1, and on a P3-450 with 768 MB RAM and G450 graphics adapter..
[Cooker] [Bug 5175] [mc] unacceptably long startup time
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5175 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-17-09 17:20 --- Created an attachment (id=853) --> (http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/attachment.cgi?id=853&action=view) strace -o /tmp/mc.log -tt mc on 200 MHz cooker Pentium MMX system -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: NEEDINFO creation_date: description: mc startup has actually been fubar since at least 9.0, possibly before that, but I can't remember. I haven't stopwatched it, but if started immediately upon 1st login after boot, it must be taking at least one minute, a seeming eternity, both in 9.1 and 9.2rc1. Upon entering mc at shell prompt, the screen is blanked, cursor goes to bottom left, and nothing happens for a while. Eventually, some liblow error messages quickly scroll up the screen too fast to read, and mc becomes ready to use. Hardware is rather old, P200 for rc1, with 128 MB RAM & PCI graphics card, but immaterially better on K6/2-500 with 256 MB RAM and same graphics adapter for 9.1, and on a P3-450 with 768 MB RAM and G450 graphics adapter..
[Cooker] [Bug 5175] [mc] unacceptably long startup time
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5175 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-17-09 17:10 --- Created an attachment (id=852) --> (http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/attachment.cgi?id=852&action=view) strace -o /tmp/mc.log -tt mc on 500 MHz 9.1 K6/2 system Please remember that this happens immediately on fresh boot, and never when sufficiently later. When you have waited instead of trying immediately, then the delay is not present, only the liblow errors. Also, this happens/happened on every system tested, about 8 systems altogether, and none faster than 550 MHz, and all of which take in the neighborhood of 3+ minutes just to boot Mandrake 9.1 or cooker directly into KDE by way of the login manager. Fresh strace from 200 MHz cooker system coming up. -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: NEEDINFO creation_date: description: mc startup has actually been fubar since at least 9.0, possibly before that, but I can't remember. I haven't stopwatched it, but if started immediately upon 1st login after boot, it must be taking at least one minute, a seeming eternity, both in 9.1 and 9.2rc1. Upon entering mc at shell prompt, the screen is blanked, cursor goes to bottom left, and nothing happens for a while. Eventually, some liblow error messages quickly scroll up the screen too fast to read, and mc becomes ready to use. Hardware is rather old, P200 for rc1, with 128 MB RAM & PCI graphics card, but immaterially better on K6/2-500 with 256 MB RAM and same graphics adapter for 9.1, and on a P3-450 with 768 MB RAM and G450 graphics adapter..
[Cooker] [Bug 5175] [mc] unacceptably long startup time
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5175 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-17-09 16:33 --- I can't fixed this for 9.2 because I can't reproduce on my test system.. Anyway, could you try to upload a new trace with strace -o /tmp/mc.log -tt mc this will add timestamp and might help to understand why it is so slow on your system.. -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: NEEDINFO creation_date: description: mc startup has actually been fubar since at least 9.0, possibly before that, but I can't remember. I haven't stopwatched it, but if started immediately upon 1st login after boot, it must be taking at least one minute, a seeming eternity, both in 9.1 and 9.2rc1. Upon entering mc at shell prompt, the screen is blanked, cursor goes to bottom left, and nothing happens for a while. Eventually, some liblow error messages quickly scroll up the screen too fast to read, and mc becomes ready to use. Hardware is rather old, P200 for rc1, with 128 MB RAM & PCI graphics card, but immaterially better on K6/2-500 with 256 MB RAM and same graphics adapter for 9.1, and on a P3-450 with 768 MB RAM and G450 graphics adapter..
[Cooker] [Bug 5175] [mc] unacceptably long startup time
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5175 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-17-09 08:39 --- Bug was marked needinfo 17 days ago, to which I promptly replied with more info. What more is required to get this fixed? mc worked properly in 7.1, works properly in RedHat. Why can't it be made to work properly in 9.2? I just rsync'd cooker fresh around 23:00 EDT, again installed to formatted /, reused /home & /boot. mc-4.6.0-4 took 1 minute 50 seconds to ready on start immediately on root login immediately on boot. -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: NEEDINFO creation_date: description: mc startup has actually been fubar since at least 9.0, possibly before that, but I can't remember. I haven't stopwatched it, but if started immediately upon 1st login after boot, it must be taking at least one minute, a seeming eternity, both in 9.1 and 9.2rc1. Upon entering mc at shell prompt, the screen is blanked, cursor goes to bottom left, and nothing happens for a while. Eventually, some liblow error messages quickly scroll up the screen too fast to read, and mc becomes ready to use. Hardware is rather old, P200 for rc1, with 128 MB RAM & PCI graphics card, but immaterially better on K6/2-500 with 256 MB RAM and same graphics adapter for 9.1, and on a P3-450 with 768 MB RAM and G450 graphics adapter..
[Cooker] [Bug 5175] [mc] unacceptably long startup time
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5175 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-10-09 03:54 --- >From IRC mdk-cooker: [from strace] looks like locales have been moving stuff and mc did not evolve with it I think the seaking for those files just takes all that time prolly a linking issue If so, should be an easy fix for someone who knows how. -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: NEEDINFO creation_date: description: mc startup has actually been fubar since at least 9.0, possibly before that, but I can't remember. I haven't stopwatched it, but if started immediately upon 1st login after boot, it must be taking at least one minute, a seeming eternity, both in 9.1 and 9.2rc1. Upon entering mc at shell prompt, the screen is blanked, cursor goes to bottom left, and nothing happens for a while. Eventually, some liblow error messages quickly scroll up the screen too fast to read, and mc becomes ready to use. Hardware is rather old, P200 for rc1, with 128 MB RAM & PCI graphics card, but immaterially better on K6/2-500 with 256 MB RAM and same graphics adapter for 9.1, and on a P3-450 with 768 MB RAM and G450 graphics adapter..
[Cooker] [Bug 5175] [mc] unacceptably long startup time
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5175 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-10-09 09:47 --- Fresh rc2 install on P200 MMX w/ 128 MB RAM on Atlas III boot device Time from telling Grub to boot to login manager ready: 1:59 Time from telling Grub to boot to login prompt on tty1: 2:23 Time from telling Grub to boot to mc ready: 4:22 (logging in root on tty1 & starting mc as quickly as possible) -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: NEEDINFO creation_date: description: mc startup has actually been fubar since at least 9.0, possibly before that, but I can't remember. I haven't stopwatched it, but if started immediately upon 1st login after boot, it must be taking at least one minute, a seeming eternity, both in 9.1 and 9.2rc1. Upon entering mc at shell prompt, the screen is blanked, cursor goes to bottom left, and nothing happens for a while. Eventually, some liblow error messages quickly scroll up the screen too fast to read, and mc becomes ready to use. Hardware is rather old, P200 for rc1, with 128 MB RAM & PCI graphics card, but immaterially better on K6/2-500 with 256 MB RAM and same graphics adapter for 9.1, and on a P3-450 with 768 MB RAM and G450 graphics adapter..
[Cooker] [Bug 5175] [mc] unacceptably long startup time
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5175 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-08-09 08:29 --- After starting mc on last boot, after freshly updating from cooker, and seeing no indication of any improvement, I immediately switched to tty2, logged in again, and did ps -A. Maybe those results would provide clues to those in the know: 1455 mc 1456 cons.saver 1457 bash 1663 bash 1685 part.script 1694 drakupdate_fsta 1695 part.script 1722 ps -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: NEEDINFO creation_date: description: mc startup has actually been fubar since at least 9.0, possibly before that, but I can't remember. I haven't stopwatched it, but if started immediately upon 1st login after boot, it must be taking at least one minute, a seeming eternity, both in 9.1 and 9.2rc1. Upon entering mc at shell prompt, the screen is blanked, cursor goes to bottom left, and nothing happens for a while. Eventually, some liblow error messages quickly scroll up the screen too fast to read, and mc becomes ready to use. Hardware is rather old, P200 for rc1, with 128 MB RAM & PCI graphics card, but immaterially better on K6/2-500 with 256 MB RAM and same graphics adapter for 9.1, and on a P3-450 with 768 MB RAM and G450 graphics adapter..
[Cooker] [Bug 5175] [mc] unacceptably long startup time
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5175 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-08-09 08:25 --- I rsync'd sunet.se cooker a couple hours ago, then updated via floppy boot, leaving me on kernel 2.4.22-6. This now brings my total installs and/or updates exhibiting this bug to about 10. Surely I can't be the only one seeing this. -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: NEEDINFO creation_date: description: mc startup has actually been fubar since at least 9.0, possibly before that, but I can't remember. I haven't stopwatched it, but if started immediately upon 1st login after boot, it must be taking at least one minute, a seeming eternity, both in 9.1 and 9.2rc1. Upon entering mc at shell prompt, the screen is blanked, cursor goes to bottom left, and nothing happens for a while. Eventually, some liblow error messages quickly scroll up the screen too fast to read, and mc becomes ready to use. Hardware is rather old, P200 for rc1, with 128 MB RAM & PCI graphics card, but immaterially better on K6/2-500 with 256 MB RAM and same graphics adapter for 9.1, and on a P3-450 with 768 MB RAM and G450 graphics adapter..
[Cooker] [Bug 5175] [mc] unacceptably long startup time
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5175 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-04-09 17:35 --- I booted a while ago without logging in on tty1 for a long time. When I logged in root and started mc, it more or less started right up, scrolling error messages too fast to read. However, there remains one on screen: *** err [liblow.c(371)]: I looked around in /var/log, but failed to find any of these messages captured anywhere. -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: NEEDINFO creation_date: description: mc startup has actually been fubar since at least 9.0, possibly before that, but I can't remember. I haven't stopwatched it, but if started immediately upon 1st login after boot, it must be taking at least one minute, a seeming eternity, both in 9.1 and 9.2rc1. Upon entering mc at shell prompt, the screen is blanked, cursor goes to bottom left, and nothing happens for a while. Eventually, some liblow error messages quickly scroll up the screen too fast to read, and mc becomes ready to use. Hardware is rather old, P200 for rc1, with 128 MB RAM & PCI graphics card, but immaterially better on K6/2-500 with 256 MB RAM and same graphics adapter for 9.1, and on a P3-450 with 768 MB RAM and G450 graphics adapter..
[Cooker] [Bug 5175] [mc] unacceptably long startup time
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5175 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-02-09 23:00 --- Machine was freshly cobbled together out of spare parts for the express purpose of testing 9.2 betas. Previously, it did not have any Linux version installed. 9.2rc1 would not install on it, so I installed 9.1, fixed /etc/grub/menu.lst, fixed /etc/fstab, and upgraded to 9.2rc1. There has been nothing special done to this system that wasn't part of the installation processes. Only non-default user is 501. Intel VX chipset, Pentium MMX 200, 128 MB EDO, 53c8xx SCSI, realtek8139, ET6000 4 MB, 4 GB /dev/hda, 9 GB /dev/sda, atapi CD on /dev/hdc. Also, /dev/scd0 powered off and disconnected after install complete. All other systems with this mc problem were 450-550 MHz, and did/do not materially differ in performance starting mc. NIS=no LDAP=no Winbind=no nscd=no runlevel 3 right after boot and immediate login: #time getent passwd | wc -l 0.01user 0.01 system 0:00.04 elapsed 44%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (201major+25minor)pagefaults 0swaps 20 minutes after boot #time getent hosts 'hostname' 0.01user 0.01 system 0:00.03 elapsed 54%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (201major+25minor)pagefaults 0swaps 22 runlevel 3 shortly after boot: #time getent hosts 'hostname' 0.02user 0.01 system 0:04.31 elapsed 0%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (230major+32minor)pagefaults 0swaps more than 20 minutes later on: 0.02user 0.01 system 0:05.30 elapsed 0%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (230major+32minor)pagefaults 0swaps # /etc/nsswitch.conf (with other commented lines omitted) passwd: files nisplus nis shadow: files nisplus nis group: files nisplus nis hosts: files nisplus nis dns bootparams: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files ethers: files netmasks: files networks: files protocols: files rpc:files services: files netgroup: nisplus publickey: nisplus automount: files nisplus aliases:files nisplus -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: NEEDINFO creation_date: description: mc startup has actually been fubar since at least 9.0, possibly before that, but I can't remember. I haven't stopwatched it, but if started immediately upon 1st login after boot, it must be taking at least one minute, a seeming eternity, both in 9.1 and 9.2rc1. Upon entering mc at shell prompt, the screen is blanked, cursor goes to bottom left, and nothing happens for a while. Eventually, some liblow error messages quickly scroll up the screen too fast to read, and mc becomes ready to use. Hardware is rather old, P200 for rc1, with 128 MB RAM & PCI graphics card, but immaterially better on K6/2-500 with 256 MB RAM and same graphics adapter for 9.1, and on a P3-450 with 768 MB RAM and G450 graphics adapter..
[Cooker] [Bug 5175] [mc] unacceptably long startup time
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5175
--- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-02-09 21:45 ---
>From the strace it looks like it might be waiting for user information from nss.
Do you use NIS? LDAP? Winbind? nscd? What do you get with:
$ time getent passwd |wc -l
when you boot up the first time? What do you get a few minutes later?
If the time is not significant and it returns all your users, please test
hostname resolution also:
$ time getent hosts `hostname`
We use LDAP/NFS, on my first login, mc takes about 15 seconds to load (with my
user login, with a large home directory on NFS). As root on first boot, mc
starts up in 3 seconds. 1GHz Duron/256MB.
This looks seriously like it's user enumeration timeouts, with a long wait in
between reading some passwd-type data:
read(10, "root:x:0:\nbin:x:1:\ndaemon:x:2:\ns"..., 4096) = 503
and showing a directory listing:
write(1, "7m\33[44m-rw-r--r-- 1 root ro"..., 1301) = 1301
Further on, there is a long timeout while finding root's home to read the config
files:
open("/root/.mc/history", O_RDONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE, 0600) = -1 EEXIST
(File exists)
You may also want to post your /etc/nsswitch.conf
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mc startup has actually been fubar since at least 9.0, possibly before that, but
I can't remember. I haven't stopwatched it, but if started immediately upon 1st
login after boot, it must be taking at least one minute, a seeming eternity,
both in 9.1 and 9.2rc1. Upon entering mc at shell prompt, the screen is blanked,
cursor goes to bottom left, and nothing happens for a while. Eventually, some
liblow error messages quickly scroll up the screen too fast to read, and mc
becomes ready to use.
Hardware is rather old, P200 for rc1, with 128 MB RAM & PCI graphics card, but
immaterially better on K6/2-500 with 256 MB RAM and same graphics adapter for
9.1, and on a P3-450 with 768 MB RAM and G450 graphics adapter..
[Cooker] [Bug 5175] [mc] unacceptably long startup time
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5175 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-02-09 20:19 --- Created an attachment (id=728) --> (http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/attachment.cgi?id=728&action=view) strace of mc I have no idea what anything in this means, but I must remind that this problem is manifested on at least 5 different machines, and also that waiting after boot seems to have a 1 to 1 relationship to startup time reduction. IOW, don't start mc for a couple minutes after booting, and it will start right up, just like it should immediately after boot and login. -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: NEEDINFO creation_date: description: mc startup has actually been fubar since at least 9.0, possibly before that, but I can't remember. I haven't stopwatched it, but if started immediately upon 1st login after boot, it must be taking at least one minute, a seeming eternity, both in 9.1 and 9.2rc1. Upon entering mc at shell prompt, the screen is blanked, cursor goes to bottom left, and nothing happens for a while. Eventually, some liblow error messages quickly scroll up the screen too fast to read, and mc becomes ready to use. Hardware is rather old, P200 for rc1, with 128 MB RAM & PCI graphics card, but immaterially better on K6/2-500 with 256 MB RAM and same graphics adapter for 9.1, and on a P3-450 with 768 MB RAM and G450 graphics adapter..
[Cooker] [Bug 5175] [mc] unacceptably long startup time
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5175 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-02-09 19:19 --- This sounds like more a kernel supermount/nfs/you name it problem.. Try running mc in strace to see why it is so slow.. -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: NEEDINFO creation_date: description: mc startup has actually been fubar since at least 9.0, possibly before that, but I can't remember. I haven't stopwatched it, but if started immediately upon 1st login after boot, it must be taking at least one minute, a seeming eternity, both in 9.1 and 9.2rc1. Upon entering mc at shell prompt, the screen is blanked, cursor goes to bottom left, and nothing happens for a while. Eventually, some liblow error messages quickly scroll up the screen too fast to read, and mc becomes ready to use. Hardware is rather old, P200 for rc1, with 128 MB RAM & PCI graphics card, but immaterially better on K6/2-500 with 256 MB RAM and same graphics adapter for 9.1, and on a P3-450 with 768 MB RAM and G450 graphics adapter..
[Cooker] [Bug 5175] [mc] unacceptably long startup time
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5175 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-02-09 19:13 --- I just switched to tty1, logged in as root, did "urpmi mc" then immediately "mc". Loaded instantaneously. -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: NEEDINFO creation_date: description: mc startup has actually been fubar since at least 9.0, possibly before that, but I can't remember. I haven't stopwatched it, but if started immediately upon 1st login after boot, it must be taking at least one minute, a seeming eternity, both in 9.1 and 9.2rc1. Upon entering mc at shell prompt, the screen is blanked, cursor goes to bottom left, and nothing happens for a while. Eventually, some liblow error messages quickly scroll up the screen too fast to read, and mc becomes ready to use. Hardware is rather old, P200 for rc1, with 128 MB RAM & PCI graphics card, but immaterially better on K6/2-500 with 256 MB RAM and same graphics adapter for 9.1, and on a P3-450 with 768 MB RAM and G450 graphics adapter..
[Cooker] [Bug 5175] [mc] unacceptably long startup time
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5175 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-02-09 19:06 --- Fast as light is how it used to be for me too, like in 7.1 or 8.1, or if started after machine has been up a while. What info do you want? To reproduce: 1-Boot runlevel 3 2-Immediately login root as soon as prompt is available. 3-Immediately do 'mc' as soon as login succeeds. Time to mc ready: 9.1 on K6/2-500: 2 minutes + 8 seconds 9.2rc1 on Pentium MMX 200: 1 minute + 56 seconds To reproduce (alternate): 1-Boot runlevel 5 2-Immediately switch to tty1 when kdm appears 3-Immediately login root as soon as prompt is available. 4-Immediately do 'mc' as soon as login succeeds. Time to me ready: 9.1 on K6/2-500: 1 minute + 55 seconds 9.2rc1 on Pentium MMX 200: 1 minute + 45 seconds More comments: The 9.2rc1 machine was upgraded from 9.1, but only because 9.2rc1 would not install on it fresh. Performance was similar on two other machines besides these two, covering 6-7 installs of 9.1 & 9.2rc1. -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: NEEDINFO creation_date: description: mc startup has actually been fubar since at least 9.0, possibly before that, but I can't remember. I haven't stopwatched it, but if started immediately upon 1st login after boot, it must be taking at least one minute, a seeming eternity, both in 9.1 and 9.2rc1. Upon entering mc at shell prompt, the screen is blanked, cursor goes to bottom left, and nothing happens for a while. Eventually, some liblow error messages quickly scroll up the screen too fast to read, and mc becomes ready to use. Hardware is rather old, P200 for rc1, with 128 MB RAM & PCI graphics card, but immaterially better on K6/2-500 with 256 MB RAM and same graphics adapter for 9.1, and on a P3-450 with 768 MB RAM and G450 graphics adapter..
[Cooker] [Bug 5175] [mc] unacceptably long startup time
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5175 [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEEDINFO Ever Confirmed||1 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-02-09 18:15 --- No problem here.. mc started as fast as light.. -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. --- Reminder: --- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: NEEDINFO creation_date: description: mc startup has actually been fubar since at least 9.0, possibly before that, but I can't remember. I haven't stopwatched it, but if started immediately upon 1st login after boot, it must be taking at least one minute, a seeming eternity, both in 9.1 and 9.2rc1. Upon entering mc at shell prompt, the screen is blanked, cursor goes to bottom left, and nothing happens for a while. Eventually, some liblow error messages quickly scroll up the screen too fast to read, and mc becomes ready to use. Hardware is rather old, P200 for rc1, with 128 MB RAM & PCI graphics card, but immaterially better on K6/2-500 with 256 MB RAM and same graphics adapter for 9.1, and on a P3-450 with 768 MB RAM and G450 graphics adapter..
