what does "cat /etc/hosts" say? what does "cat /etc/resolv.conf" say is DNS runnig? named? ypserv?
Wednesday 26 March 2003 02:10 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Still no joy. The CDROM still takes ages to mount. It almost as if > something is tying up a bunch of low-level system stuff until it expires > on a time-out. This is really interfering with using Mandrake 9.0. I might > blame it on slow hardware (a 100MHz Pentium), except no such delays occur > with SuSE Linux running on the same hardware (dual boot) > > During boot, it takes ninety seconds to start up devFS. Is this normal? > In case the trouble was with devFS (one of the differences between Mandrake > and the SuSE system I have no trouble with), I tries doing without devFS by > changing lilo.conf and rerunning lilo. Except that it didn try to start up > d devFS, no difference. It still took two minutes and twenty-seven seconds > to mount a CD. So devFS seems not to be the problem. > > Subsequent operations from the CD are slow too: 29 seconds to ls a > directory, 14 seconds fo unmount the CD. > > It takes over two minutes to start Mandrake Command Centre. Most of the > time it appears to be doing nothing. It takes a minute to get to the place > where I can turn system services on and off. > > Under the curcumstances, comleting the installation of Mandrakd 9.0 is > really hopeless. > > I did this in the hope of answering Miark question: > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:31:40PM -0500, Miark wrote: > > Is autofs running? If so, try turning it off with drakxservices. > > > > Miark > > Is drakxservices the thing you get to turn services on and off from the > MCC? If so, autofs was not even listed as something to turn on or off. > > It really seems as though the system is locking up for times varying from > thirty+seconds to over a minute now and then. Mounting a CD does > eventually work (today I mounted an old OS/2 shareware CD flawlessly, > except that it took four minutes). Now and then it does a read from the CD > (as evidenced by the drive light), with *huge* time delays. I'm used to it > doing a few reads in less than+a second on the old SuSE system wtill > running on the same hardware (dual boot, SuSE and Mandrake) and returning > immediately afteward with a successful mount. > > So I wonder what could cause the delays. I sat and watched in boot > Mandrake 9.0+today. The first noticeable delay was a minute and a half > or so starting devFS+demon. Id announces that it is starting the devFS > demon, and about 90 seconds > +later (times without a clock) it announces success. > > The only other delays during boot are understandable timeouts:waiting for > adsl +to come up (the modem was off) and waiting to synchronize the clock > (again, no +net). > > Is ninety-seconds a normal time to take to start up devFS? > > Could startup delay with devFS be related to the slow CD mount problem? > > Is it possible to reconfigure to skip devFS somehow (I suspect not, but > I'll ask+anyway.) What does devFS do, anyway? > > -- hendrik -- Linux counter number 167806
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