hi, This had been bugging me since I installed sl6, so a few weeks I sat down and tested a few things. Hopefully it will help someone.
The problem: my corporate laptop (dell latitude e6500, which by the way, works great with sl 6.0), took a while to cold boot. Pressing escape to see the console messages showed that the cups daemon was started, and after about 15 seconds, acpid would start and then the rest of the daemons and I would be greeted by the logon screen. This would not happen in case of a reboot, by the way. Hibernating, although functional, takes longer than boot, so why bother :( I modified /etc/init.d/cups, changing the chkconfig 2345 25 10 line to chkconfig 2345 95 10. Then chkconfig cups off and chkconfig cups on to recreate the symlinks, shutdown and start. So now cups starts quite late in the boot sequence, but that does not matter at all as long as it starts after syslog and local_fs. Printing works as usual after this change. I am very happy to say my laptop has been very fast to boot since this little change. These are the little things that matter. -- Groeten, natxo
