Hi all, this is not really a problem but one thing that bugs me is that suse 9.1 takes forever to boot, about 4 minutes. it does nothing for the longest time, no HD activity at all for the first 3:15 then the HD light comes on and from there it takes about 45 secs. to boot. Is there a reason for this and can I make it boot faster?
I installed gkrellm and it says i have 75 processes running but unfortunatly i'm not connected to the internet at home so I can't post which ones are running. Is there a way where I can find out which ones are running and which ones I need running?

Thanks!!
RANDON

:-o

3:15?

I'd say you should compile your own kernel for a starter, or upgrade to 9.2

Lets see here.
go into /usr/src/linux
try a make clean
then make mrproper
after that.
Do a "make oldconfig" as that should copy your current config
Then a "make menuconfig"
And, well, make an educated guess at turning off every feature you don't have.
Once that's done, you can exit and save.
Oh, and don't change the processor type or it wont boot using this method.

then. make bzImage
copy the image to /boot and change the name to whatever you want...
don't worry about making the modules cause your using the same kernel, they're already made and suse will work the same without recompiling them.

Make a new entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst to boot your custom kernel, and basically, just copy the top entry line for line, with the initrd image and all so everything will be the same.

Then try booting. If it don't boot, you must have missed a piece of hardware that you have.

What does the screen say during the 3:15?

You have to watch the screen and HD light to figure out what is going on.

On mine, there is a countdown period for options to be selected (10 seconds? it stays on). If you have multiple OS's it probably has a countdown period for the OS to be selected.

If it is a blank screen optimize drive jumpers. You have four, all different needing different sets of drivers, too.

If it says press f2 for detail press f2. Watch and document the things that don't just fly by. If everything takes a while to load I would wonder about whether it detected all of the RAM or there is some other very low level issue like the ones above. If it is something in the f2 that is especially time consuming consider removing it. There are lots of answers.

Your machine sounds great btw. I would expect it to boot in 30 seconds or less. My P2-333MMX SuSE 9.1 pro computer boots in less time than yours . It spends a good 20 seconds waiting on ip's and stuff. I tried to make that faster, but it doesn't.

The 3:15 would be my first target.

The screen just says "suse 9.1. Press f2 for details" this is the part that takes the 3:15. This is after the boot screen that lets you select which OS you want to use. It does nothing for this entire time, until the screen flickers (3:15 later) and from that point its about 30-45 seconds to boot.
Thanks!!
RANDON

Hmm .. I have once experienced something similar. I was playing around with "Network Services" in Yast trying to configure NFS or something and did it incorrectly - and didn't know about it. The weeks later I rebooted the machine and almost got a heart attack when I noticed that it does not want to boot (no HDD activity, nothing). Well ... it did boot after 5 minutes or so (the longest 5 mins in my life I guess :-) ). Then I rebooted again but this time I pressed F2 (as you have been advised) and saw that NFS was not configured properly. After it booted up I went to Yast and turned it off completely - and naturally it helped.
Now I am not saying that this is what's wrong with your machine - just to illustrate what general type of problems you might be experiencing :-). So for now ... F2 is the best advice - then we can talk more :-)

On the subject of "F2":

Push it repeatedly for several seconds. SuSE does not respond to the F2 button for the first several seconds, and then it may not listen for it once it's in the middle of something. You may need to hit F2 between the time it becomes available and the lock up.

Also, check your boot log: /var/log/boot.msg

... or open a console and type top

You can try "top", but I don't think it will help. It will give you information about processes that are running right now, not a history of what has run.

It sounds to me like the kernel (or something else on startup) is taking a long time to try to do something, and then decides that it can't (times out) and moves on to the rest of the boot process. Since this all happens before init starts a run level, programs like top cannot be used to monitor the problem as it occurs (because you have no control yet to run them). Checking log and config files is about all that can be done (from my point of view, please post alternatives).

OK, I was just pressing it once. Once the screen flickers after the first 3:15, I can press F2 and it will show everything immediatly and it goes through everything very fast.
I will look in that directory also, will it tell me if something is wrong like something failed to initalize or the like?
Thanks for the replies!!
RANDON

It may, or it may not. Try to watch very closely to what the computer is doing when the F2 finally works. You will be looking for something in the boot log just before that.

Also see if you can get the F2 to work before the pause. That would give you a very good indicator as to where the hold up is.

I ran into a booting delay a long time ago, and the cause of it was that the system was looking for /dev/hde and /dev/hdg (neither of which existed). As a result, the boot process would pause until the detection routine timed out. The solution was to add a parameter to the lilo.conf file on the "append" line to indicate that there was no /dev/hde or /dev/hdg. I'm sorry that I can't remember it off the top of my head, but it's possible that the same issue is causing the delay here as well.

Either way, pressing F2 will reveal a series of status messages as the system boots, and just by watching it you should be able to determine at which point(s) the system pauses. -- J.W.

JW:

It sounds to me as thought the problem is early on in the kernel's boot cycle. I wouldn't expect it to take 3+ minutes to timeout on the drives, but stranger things have happened. The problem seems to be (randon, please confirm or deny this) that it pauses either before F2 becomes a real possibility, or before he has a chance to "get a word in edge wise". There is a very short delay when it says that you can push F2, and it really isn't available. I think this is the point in the process that we are talking about.

If it does wind up being the kernel looking for drives that aren't there (like your situation) then the parameter that you added to your append line would need to be added to /boot/grub/menu.lst (sometimes called /boot/grub/grub.conf) to the "kernel" line.

Well I tried to push F2 many times at the inital startup screen "suse press F2 for details" and nothing happened. I tried many many times like gd2shoe suggested but no detailes came up until after that little screen flicker. The pause is immedietly at bootup but I will try to attemp to push F2 before the inital boot screen comes up. I was looking in the yast control panel last night and I think I found the log where everything is recorded, and was going to save it to a notepad type file and post it here so you guys can see (boot log) but, and what timing, suse won't read from my jumpdrive anymore for some reason ( it did a few days ago but now it says it's inaccessable) and I cant make a copy of what it says to show you here and like I said before I'm not online at home. AAAGGHHH!!

When it rains it pours!!
I'll save to a floppy instead.....thank God for floppys!!
OK. I'll have to post it tomorrow instead.
Thanks guys for the help!!
RANDON

Well here is the output from the boot log:



Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.6.4-52-default
Loaded 23439 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.6.4-52-default.
Symbols match kernel version 2.6.4.
No module symbols loaded - kernel modules not enabled.

klogd 1.4.1, log source = ksyslog started.
<4>Linux version 2.6.4-52-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux)) #1 Wed Apr 7 02:08:30 UTC 2004
<6>BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
<4> BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
<4> BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
<4> BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
<4> BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fff0000 (usable)
<4> BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 000000001fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
<4> BIOS-e820: 000000001fff3000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI data)
<4> BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
<4> BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
<4> BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
<5>501MB vmalloc/ioremap area available.
<5>0MB HIGHMEM available.
<5>511MB LOWMEM available.
<4>On node 0 totalpages: 131056
<4> DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
<4> Normal zone: 126960 pages, LIFO batch:16
<4> HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
<6>DMI 2.3 present.
<6>ACPI: RSDP (v000 Nvidia ) @ 0x000f6b70
<6>ACPI: RSDT (v001 Nvidia AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x01010101) @ 0x1fff3000
<6>ACPI: FADT (v001 Nvidia AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x01010101) @ 0x1fff3040
<6>ACPI: MADT (v001 Nvidia AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x01010101) @ 0x1fff75c0
<6>ACPI: DSDT (v001 NVIDIA AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x00000000
<6>ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008
<6>ACPI: local apic disabled
<4>Built 1 zonelists
<4>Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda2 vga=0x31a desktop resume=/dev/hda3 splash=silent
<6>bootsplash: silent mode.
<6>Initializing CPU#0
<4>PID hash table entries: 2048 (order 11: 16384 bytes)
<4>CKRM Initialized
<4>Detected 1670.583 MHz processor.
<6>Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
<4>Console: colour dummy device 80x25
<6>Memory: 514896k/524224k available (1969k kernel code, 8576k reserved, 677k data, 212k init, 0k highmem)
<4>Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
<4>Calibrating delay loop... 3309.56 BogoMIPS
<6>Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized
<6>SELinux: Initializing.
<6>SELinux: Starting in permissive mode
<6>There is already a security framework initialized, register_security failed.
<6>Failure registering capabilities with the kernel
<6>selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability
<6>Capability LSM initialized
<6>Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
<4>Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
<4>Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
<6>checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
<6>Looking for DSDT in initrd ...No customized DSDT found in initrd!
<6>Freeing initrd memory: 1222k freed
<7>CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000
<7>CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000
<6>CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
<6>CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
<7>CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000020
<6>Intel machine check architecture supported.
<6>Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
<4>CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ stepping 02
<6>Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
<6>Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
<6>Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
<4>POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
<4>do_initcalls
<4>init_elf_binfmt
<6>NET: Registered protocol family 16
<6>PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfaba0, last bus=3
<6>PCI: Using configuration type 1
<6>mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
<6>ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
<6>No customized DSDT found!
<4>ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Level Trigger.
<6>ACPI: Interpreter enabled
<6>ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
<6>ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
<4>PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
<4> ... the first call_usermodehelper: pci_bus
<7>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
<7>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.HUB0._PRT]
<7>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.AGPB._PRT]
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 14 15)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK2] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK3] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 14 15)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK4] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK5] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUBA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 12 14 15)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUBB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 14 15)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LMAC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 12 14 15)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LAPU] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LACI] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LMCI] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LSMB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUB2] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LFIR] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 12 14 15)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [L3CM] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LIDE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC1] (IRQs *16)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC2] (IRQs *17)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC3] (IRQs *18)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC4] (IRQs *19)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC5] (IRQs 16)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCF] (IRQs 20 21 22)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCG] (IRQs 20 21 22)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCH] (IRQs 20 21 22)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCI] (IRQs 20 21 22)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCJ] (IRQs 20 21 22)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCK] (IRQs 20 21 22)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCS] (IRQs *23)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCL] (IRQs 20 21 22)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCM] (IRQs 20 21 22)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [AP3C] (IRQs 20 21 22)
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APCZ] (IRQs 20 21 22)
<6>Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LSMB] enabled at IRQ 11
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUBA] enabled at IRQ 9
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUBB] enabled at IRQ 10
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUB2] enabled at IRQ 11
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LMAC] enabled at IRQ 9
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LFIR] enabled at IRQ 9
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] enabled at IRQ 10
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK2] enabled at IRQ 11
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK3] enabled at IRQ 10
<4>ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK4] enabled at IRQ 11
<6>PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
<6>PCI: if you experience problems, try using option 'pci=noacpi' or even 'acpi=off'
<6>vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd0000000, mapped to 0xe0808000, size 16384k
<6>vesafb: mode is 1280x1024x16, linelength=2560, pages=50
<6>vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:5710
<6>vesafb: scrolling: redraw
<6>vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
<6>fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
<6>apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
<5>apm: overridden by ACPI.
<4>Initial HugeTLB pages allocated: 0
<6>ikconfig 0.7 with /proc/config*
<5>VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
<6>SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks
<6>Initializing Cryptographic API
<6>isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
<6>isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
<6>bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture.... silentjpeg size 52139 bytes, found (1280x1024, 24562 bytes, v3).
<4>Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 147x55
<6>Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
<6>Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 48 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
<4>ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
<4>ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
<4>Using anticipatory io scheduler
<6>Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
<6>FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
<4>RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 64000K size 1024 blocksize
<6>loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
<6>Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
<6>ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
<6>NFORCE2: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:09.0
<6>NFORCE2: chipset revision 162
<6>NFORCE2: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later
<4>NFORCE2: BIOS didn't set cable bits correctly. Enabling workaround.
<6>NFORCE2: 0000:00:09.0 (rev a2) UDMA133 controller
<6> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbMA
<6> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddMA
<4>hda: WDC WD800JB-00JJA0, ATA DISK drive
<4>hdb: WDC WD400LB-00DNA0, ATA DISK drive
<4>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
<4>hdc: CREATIVE DVD-ROM DVD1241E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
<4>hdd: YAMAHA CRW2200E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
<4>ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
<6>SiI3112 Serial ATA: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:01:0d.0
<6>SiI3112 Serial ATA: chipset revision 2
<6>SiI3112 Serial ATA: 100%% native mode on irq 10
<6> ide2: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hdeio, hdfio
<6> ide3: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hdgio, hdhio
<4>hde: no response (status = 0xfe)
<4>hdg: no response (status = 0xfe)
<4>hde: no response (status = 0xfe), resetting drive
<4>hde: no response (status = 0xfe)
<4>hdg: no response (status = 0xfe), resetting drive
<4>hdg: no response (status = 0xfe)
<4>hda: max request size: 128KiB
<6>hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
<6> hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
<4>hdb: max request size: 1024KiB
<6>hdb: 78165360 sectors (40020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)
<6> hdb: hdb1
<4>ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
<6>mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
<6>input: PC Speaker
<6>serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
<6>serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
<6>input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
<6>md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
<6>NET: Registered protocol family 2
<6>IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
<6>TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
<6>NET: Registered protocol family 1
<6>NET: Registered protocol family 8
<6>NET: Registered protocol family 20
<4>Resume Machine: resuming from /dev/hda3
<4>Resuming from device hda3
<3>Resume Machine: This is normal swap space
<7>PM: Reading pmdisk image.
<7>PM: Resume from disk failed.
<6>ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
<6>md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
<6>md: autorun ...
<6>md: ... autorun DONE.
<5>RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
<4>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
<5>SCSI subsystem initialized
<7>libata version 1.02 loaded.
<5>ReiserFS: hda2: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
<5>ReiserFS: hda2: using ordered data mode
<5>ReiserFS: hda2: journal params: device hda2, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
<5>ReiserFS: hda2: checking transaction log (hda2)
<5>ReiserFS: hda2: Using r5 hash to sort names
<4>VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
<5>Trying to move old root to /initrd ... failed
<5>Unmounting old root
<5>Trying to free ramdisk memory ... okay
<6>Freeing unused kernel memory: 212k freed
<6>Adding 1036184k swap on /dev/hda3. Priority:42 extents:1
<6>md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
<6>md: autorun ...
<6>md: ... autorun DONE.
<6>device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: dm@uk.sistina.com
<6>NTFS driver 2.1.6 [Flags: R/O MODULE].
<6>NTFS volume version 3.1.
<6>subfs 0.9
Kernel logging (ksyslog) stopped.
Kernel log daemon terminating.

Boot logging started on /dev/tty1(/dev/console) at Thu Dec 30 07:48:54 2004

<notice>run boot scripts (setserial boot.proc)
Configuring serial ports...
/dev/ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
/dev/ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Configured serial ports
done<notice>exit status of (setserial boot.proc) is (0 0)
<notice>run boot scripts (boot.shm)
Mounting shared memory FS on /dev/shmdone
<notice>exit status of (boot.shm) is (0)
<notice>run boot scripts (boot.rootfsck)
Activating swap-devices in /etc/fstab...
doneFile systems are NOT being checked.
<notice>exit status of (boot.rootfsck) is (0)
<notice>run boot scripts (boot.md boot.device-mapper)
Activating device mapper...
Creating /dev/mapper/control character device with major:10 minor:63.
done
<notice>exit status of (boot.md boot.device-mapper) is (0 0)
<notice>run boot scripts (boot.localfs)
Checking file systems...
fsck 1.34 (25-Jul-2003)
doneSetting updone
Mounting local file systems...
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)
/dev/hda1 on /windows/C type ntfs (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,nls=utf8)
/dev/hdb1 on /windows/D type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,iocharset=utf8)
/dev/hdd on /media/cdrecorder type subfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,fs=cdfss,procuid,iocharset=utf8)
/dev/hdc on /media/dvd type subfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,fs=cdfss,procuid,iocharset=utf8)
/dev/fd0 on /media/floppy type subfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=floppyfss,procuid)
done<notice>exit status of (boot.localfs) is (0)
<notice>run boot scripts (boot.crypto)
<notice>exit status of (boot.crypto) is (0)
<notice>run boot scripts (boot.swap boot.scpm boot.restore_permissions boot.loadmodules)
Loading required kernel modules
doneRestore device permissionsdone
Activating remaining swap-devices in /etc/fstab...
done<notice>exit status of (boot.swap boot.scpm boot.restore_permissions boot.loadmodules) is (0 0 0 0)
<notice>run boot scripts (boot.idedma boot.clock)
Setting up the CMOS clockdone
<notice>exit status of (boot.idedma boot.clock) is (0 0)
<notice>run boot scripts (boot.ldconfig)
Setting up timezone datadone
<notice>exit status of (boot.ldconfig) is (0)
<notice>run boot scripts (boot.sched boot.localnet boot.isapnp)
Setting scheduling timeslices unused
Setting up hostname 'linux'done
Setting up loopback interface lo
lo IP address: 127.0.0.1/8
done
<notice>exit status of (boot.sched boot.localnet boot.isapnp) is (6 0 0)
<notice>run boot scripts (boot.klog boot.ipconfig)
Enabling syn flood protectiondone
Disabling IP forwardingdone
Creating /var/log/boot.msg
done<notice>killproc: kill(275,29)
<notice>exit status of (boot.klog boot.ipconfig) is (0 0)
System Boot Control: The system has been set up
Skipped features: boot.sched
System Boot Control: Running /etc/init.d/boot.local
done<notice>killproc: kill(275,3)

INIT: Entering runlevel: 5



Boot logging started on /dev/tty1(/dev/console) at Thu Dec 30 08:33:08 2004

Master Resource Control: previous runlevel: N, switching to runlevel: 5
<notice>start services (random isdn hotplug)
Initializing random number generatordone
Hotplug is already active (disable with NOHOTPLUG=1 at the boot prompt)done
<notice>exit status of (random isdn hotplug) is (0 0 0)
<notice>start services (coldplug)
coldplug scanning input: done
scanning pci: *WWWWW*******.**W**.WWdone
scanning usb: .*...done
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .done
<notice>exit status of (coldplug) is (0)
<notice>start services (network)
Setting up network interfaces:
lo
lo IP address: 127.0.0.1/8
done eth0 device: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet Controller (rev a1)
eth0 configuration: eth-id-00:20:ed:8f:4d:c0
eth0 (DHCP) . . . . . no IP address yet... backgrounding.
waiting
<notice>checkproc: /sbin/dhcpcd 2604
Waiting for mandatory devices: eth-id-00:20:ed:8f:4d:c0
14 <notice>checkproc: /sbin/dhcpcd 2604
13 <notice>checkproc: /sbin/dhcpcd 2604
12 <notice>checkproc: /sbin/dhcpcd 2604
10 <notice>checkproc: /sbin/dhcpcd 2604
9 <notice>checkproc: /sbin/dhcpcd 2604
8 <notice>checkproc: /sbin/dhcpcd 2604
7 <notice>checkproc: /sbin/dhcpcd 2604
6 <notice>checkproc: /sbin/dhcpcd 2604
5 <notice>checkproc: /sbin/dhcpcd 2604
4 <notice>checkproc: /sbin/dhcpcd 2604
3 <notice>checkproc: /sbin/dhcpcd 2604
1 <notice>checkproc: /sbin/dhcpcd 2604
0 <notice>checkproc: /sbin/dhcpcd 2604

eth0 interface could not be set up
failedSetting up service network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .failed
<notice>exit status of (network) is (7)
<notice>start services (syslog)
Starting syslog services<notice>startproc: execve (/sbin/syslogd) [ /sbin/syslogd -a /var/lib/ntp/dev/log ], [ CONSOLE=/dev/console TERM=linux SHELL=/bin/sh progress=25 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.85 REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=147 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin vga=0x31a RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ PREVLEVEL=N LINES=55 SHLVL=2 splash=silent sscripts=44 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/sbin/syslogd ]
<notice>startproc: execve (/sbin/klogd) [ /sbin/klogd -c 1 -2 ], [ CONSOLE=/dev/console TERM=linux SHELL=/bin/sh progress=25 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.85 REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=147 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin vga=0x31a RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ PREVLEVEL=N LINES=55 SHLVL=2 splash=silent sscripts=44 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/sbin/klogd ]
done
<notice>exit status of (syslog) is (0)
<notice>start services (smbfs)
Mount SMB File System unused
<notice>exit status of (smbfs) is (6)
<notice>start services (splash_early resmgr portmap)
<notice>startproc: execve (/sbin/resmgrd) [ /sbin/resmgrd ], [ CONSOLE=/dev/console TERM=linux SHELL=/bin/sh progress=27 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.85 REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=147 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin vga=0x31a RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ PREVLEVEL=N LINES=55 SHLVL=2 splash=silent sscripts=44 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/sbin/resmgrd ]
<notice>startproc: execve (/sbin/portmap) [ /sbin/portmap ], [ CONSOLE=/dev/console TERM=linux SHELL=/bin/sh progress=27 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.85 REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=147 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin vga=0x31a RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ PREVLEVEL=N LINES=55 SHLVL=2 splash=silent sscripts=44 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/sbin/portmap ]
Starting resource managerdone
Starting RPC portmap daemondone
<notice>exit status of (splash_early resmgr portmap) is (0 0 0)
<notice>start services (nfsboot)
Starting nfsboot (sm-notify) Backgrounding to notify hosts...
done
<notice>exit status of (nfsboot) is (0)
<notice>start services (sshd powertweakd powersaved fbset alsasound)
<notice>startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/powertweakd) [ /usr/sbin/powertweakd ], [ CONSOLE=/dev/console TERM=linux SHELL=/bin/sh progress=31 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.85 REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=147 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin vga=0x31a RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ PREVLEVEL=N LINES=55 SHLVL=2 splash=silent sscripts=44 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/powertweakd ]
<notice>startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/sshd) [ /usr/sbin/sshd -o PidFile=/var/run/sshd.init.pid ], [ CONSOLE=/dev/console TERM=linux SHELL=/bin/sh progress=31 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.85 REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=147 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin vga=0x31a RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ PREVLEVEL=N LINES=55 SHLVL=2 splash=silent sscripts=44 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/sshd ]
Starting service powertweakdone
Starting SSH daemondone
<notice>startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/powersaved) [ /usr/sbin/powersaved -d -e /etc/powersave.conf -a resmgr -v 3 ], [ CONSOLE=/dev/console TERM=linux SHELL=/bin/sh progress=31 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.85 REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=147 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin vga=0x31a RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ PREVLEVEL=N LINES=55 SHLVL=2 splash=silent sscripts=44 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/powersaved ]
loading ACPI modules (ac battery button fan processor thermal ) Starting powersaved done
Starting sound driver: emu10k1done
Restoring the previous sound settingdone
<notice>exit status of (sshd powertweakd powersaved fbset alsasound) is (0 0 0 0 0)
<notice>start services (splash postfix kbd cups)
<notice>startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/cupsd) [ /usr/sbin/cupsd ], [ CONSOLE=/dev/console TERM=linux SHELL=/bin/sh progress=36 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.85 REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=147 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin vga=0x31a RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ PREVLEVEL=N LINES=55 SHLVL=2 splash=silent sscripts=44 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/cupsd ]
Starting cupsddone
Starting mail service (Postfix)done
Loading keymap qwerty/us.map.gz
doneLoading compose table winkeys shiftctrl latin1.adddone
Start Unicode mode
doneLoading console font lat9w-16.psfu -m trivial (K
done<notice>exit status of (splash postfix kbd cups) is (0 0 0 0)
<notice>start services (nscd hwscan cron)
Starting hardware scan on boot<notice>startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/cron) [ /usr/sbin/cron ], [ CONSOLE=/dev/console TERM=linux SHELL=/bin/sh progress=40 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.85 REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=147 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin vga=0x31a RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ PREVLEVEL=N LINES=55 SHLVL=2 splash=silent sscripts=44 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/cron ]
Starting CRON daemondone
<notice>startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/nscd) [ /usr/sbin/nscd ], [ CONSOLE=/dev/console TERM=linux SHELL=/bin/sh progress=40 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.85 REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=147 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin vga=0x31a RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ PREVLEVEL=N LINES=55 SHLVL=2 splash=silent sscripts=44 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/nscd ]
Starting Name Service Cache Daemondone
<notice>exit status of (nscd hwscan cron) is (0 0 0)
<notice>start services (xdm splash_late)
Starting service kdm<notice>startproc: execve (/opt/kde3/bin/kdm) [ /opt/kde3/bin/kdm ], [ LC_MONETARY= CONSOLE=/dev/console TERM=linux SHELL=/bin/sh LC_NUMERIC= QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3 LC_ALL= progress=43 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.85 KDEROOTHOME=/root/.kdm REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=147 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin LC_MESSAGES= vga=0x31a RUNLEVEL=5 LC_COLLATE= PWD=/ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 PREVLEVEL=N LINES=55 SHLVL=2 XCURSOR_THEME=crystalwhite no_proxy=localhost WINDOWMANAGER=/usr/X11R6/bin/kde LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 splash=silent sscripts=44 LC_TIME= _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/opt/kde3/bin/kdm ]
done
<notice>exit status of (xdm splash_late) is (0 0)
Master Resource Control: runlevel 5 has been reached
Failed services in runlevel 5: network
Skipped services in runlevel 5: smbfs
<notice>killproc: kill(941,3)



If anyone can figure this out or make something out of this, thanks!

RANDON

What is this?:

<6>There is already a security framework initialized, register_security failed.
<6>Failure registering capabilities with the kernel