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Old 06-10-2004, 06:03 PM   #1
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Fedora1 slow checking for new hardware


Often, but not always, my Fedora Core 1 setup seems to hang for as much as 5 or 10 minutes when booting at the "Checking for new hardware" stage. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it. Sometimes it flies right by that stage and then the next boot might sit there for a long time. It eventually seems to time out or something and continue on ok.
When it's hanging, there appears to be absolutely no disk activity so what the h* could it be doing?

Any ideas what is going on?

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utah
 
Old 06-10-2004, 06:08 PM   #2
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do you often add new hardware? If not I would disable kudzu from even running... you can always renable before (or after) you add new hardware. Your boot time will decrease significantly.
 
Old 06-12-2004, 09:19 AM   #3
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That's a good suggestion. But I still wonder how this rippin' P4 machine with nothing much else to do can take that long to scan the hardware and compare to the tiny /etc/sysconfig/hwconf file (and a few others). There must be something else going on that is hanging and waiting for some kind of time-out to happen.

Where is kudzu called in the bootup process? I'd like to look at the options it's using, etc.

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Old 06-12-2004, 11:21 AM   #4
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/etc/rc.d/ AFAIK
 
Old 06-12-2004, 11:30 AM   #5
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You may have some hardware that hasn't gotten identified yet. I would just disable kudzu if you are not going to add any hardware and if everything else is working!

Good Luck!
 
  


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