[SOLVED] Slow bootup due to Appletalk daemons

brianL · 07-13-2009, 07:57 AM

Using Slackware64-current.
Do I need these daemons if I'm not communicating in any way with any Apple computers? Are they necessary for anything else? How do I exorcise them? There's an appletalk module loaded too, in the generic kernel. Is the right way to get rid of that to run:
modprobe -r appletalk?

H_TeXMeX_H · 07-13-2009, 08:08 AM

I don't think you need them, maybe just blacklist them in '/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist' and also make sure they aren't being loaded by any script in '/etc/rc.d', but I don't think they are. For example comment out the 'netatalk' part in rc.M and 'modprobe appletalk' in rc.modules or rc.modules-$(uname -r) if they exist.

brianL · 07-13-2009, 08:14 AM

Right, thanks. They're a nuisance, seem to double the bootup time.

SqdnGuns · 07-13-2009, 08:27 AM

I just chmod a-x /etc/rc.d/rc.atalk

H_TeXMeX_H · 07-13-2009, 08:29 AM

It's true that from the default install you can usually cut the boot time in half by disabling startup scripts, modifying rc.M, maybe using the lilo compact option, and recompiling the kernel. When I install sw 13 I'll make note of what can be done and post a howto.

The last one I made is here, but is only known to be accurate for sw 12.0:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ml#post2921723

brianL · 07-13-2009, 08:37 AM

Yes, that's better! Commented out appletalk in rc.M, and blacklisted the bugger as well! Boots up a hell of a lot faster now.

onebuck · 07-13-2009, 10:26 AM

Hi,

You should remember that you have the choice when you are installing to select the desired services. 'rc.atalk' is one of the services that should be disabled if you don't have a need for 'apple talk'.

You can always re-run pkgtool then choose scripts to run and then choose the desired option for the service(s). Or in this case just do a 'chmod' from the cli.

brianL · 07-13-2009, 10:38 AM

Yeah, that rc.atalk must have sneaked in under my radar when I was installing. Never had that activated on any previous releases.

H_TeXMeX_H · 07-13-2009, 11:09 AM

There's no rc.atalk for me, but I haven't upgraded to sw 13 yet.

bgeddy · 07-13-2009, 11:29 AM

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There's no rc.atalk for me, but I haven't upgraded to sw 13 yet.

Odd - this is part of the netatalk package which has been there for ages. It was there in Slackware 9.0 anyway.

brianL · 07-13-2009, 11:32 AM

It mustn't have been activated by default before.

bgeddy · 07-13-2009, 11:50 AM

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It mustn't have been activated by default before.

Yeah - I noticed on a recent VM install (think it was -current) that the appletalk stuff was coming up at boot up. I just thought I had inadvertently set this up in the setup script as I tend run setups on "autopilot" now. (Loosing my marbles a bit perhaps).

brianL · 07-13-2009, 12:07 PM

Me too, tend to take things for granted.

brianL · 07-14-2009, 04:03 AM

I will be disabling it during installation in future.