<canceled> After Boot Ethernet Connection Delay

[Ray2047]

please check this:
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,75886.0.html

AS

But it doesn't contain a solution. Just tried restarting again. Got the desktop but no connection, and when I went to text boot was busy checking hardware. Basically it seems I am getting Desktop before the system fully boots.

[AS]

Of course, it was just to be sure that there wasn't some fsck processing (or other ...) going on ...

Right now it's not clear to me "when", in the boot sequence , starts your problems.
The sequence should be: bootloader -> kernel -> init -> inittab -> rc.sysinit -> /etc/init.d/services [ at some runlevel, say 5]

May be you want to try to boot at runlevel 3 ? (network should work at this runlevel, while graphics interface not)
once you have a command prompt try ping some external IP. and try to use drakconnect.

If you experience the same problems (slow process), try to boot at runlevel 2, in this case network will be off.

Check in /var/log/messages for errors eventually logged on.

AS

[Ray2047]

AS, how do you boot at a specific run level?

[AS]

AS, how do you boot at a specific run level?

Simply add 3 to the boot line, after all other options. In this moment I don't remember if you need to press F3 (for boot option) on grub screen.
i.e.: splash=silent elevator=cfq vga=0x317  3

The same eventually to boot at runlevel 2

AS

PS:
once you are at runlevel 3 (or 2) you need to use command line to shutdown or reboot, or switch to graphical interface:
as root: init 0 to shutdown;
as root: init 6 to reboot:
as root: init 5 to start graphics interface

[Ray2047]

Connected with out delay at run level 3.

[AS]

that probably means that your system delay is related to some services enabled at runlevel 5.

try to look at enabled service, start drakxservices, or post the output of chkconfig command.

Specifically you need to look at services enabled at level 5 but disabled at level 3, probably one is the source of the delay.
EDIT: which is "sh language" is: chkconfig | grep "5:on"  | grep "3:off"

AS

[Ray2047]

Results from chkconfg:

]# chkconfig
acpid           0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off   7:on
alsa            0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off   7:off
apmd            0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off   7:off
apmiser         0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off   7:off
atd             0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off   7:off
atieventsd      0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:on    6:off   7:off
avahi-daemon    0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:off   5:on    6:off   7:off
bpalogin        0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off   7:off
cpufreq         0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off   7:off
crond           0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off   7:off
cups            0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off   7:off
dm              0:off   1:off   2:on    3:off   4:on    5:on    6:off   7:on
haldaemon       0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off   7:on
ibod            0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off   7:off
ip6tables       0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off   7:off
iptables        0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off   7:off
irqbalance      0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off   7:off
kheader         0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:off   5:on    6:off   7:off
laptop-mode     0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off   7:off
mandi           0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off   7:off
messagebus      0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off   7:on
msec            0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off   7:off
mtinkd          0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off   7:off
mysqld          0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off   7:off
netconsole      0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off   7:off
netfs           0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off   7:off
network         0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off   7:off
network-auth    0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off   7:off
network-up      0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:off   5:on    6:off   7:off
nfs-common      0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off   7:off
nfs-server      0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off   7:off
nscd            0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off   7:off
ntpd            0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off   7:off
numlock         0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off   7:on
oki4daemon      0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off   7:off
partmon         0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off   7:off
pktcdvd         0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off   7:off
portreserve     0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off   7:off
pppoe           0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off   7:off
pptp            0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off   7:off
resmgr          0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off   7:off
resolvconf      0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off   7:off
rpcbind         0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off   7:off
saslauthd       0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off   7:off
shorewall       0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off   7:off
smb             0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off   7:off
sound           0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off   7:off
sshd            0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off   7:off
syslog          0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off   7:on
udev-post       0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off   7:off
ultrabayd       0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off   7:off
uuidd           0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:off   5:on    6:off   7:off
winbind         0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off   7:off
wine            0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off   7:off
wlan            0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off   7:off
xfs             0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off   7:off
xinetd          0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off   7:off

xinetd based services:
        cups-lpd:       off
        rsync:          off
        saned:          on
        sshd-xinetd:    off

[AS]

> udev-post       0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off   7:off

the above line is highly suspected, and look like different from the default PCLinuxOS system installation:

please try, as root: chkconfig udev-post on (this will enable the service at defaults on, that on my system look like:
udev-post       0:off   1:on    2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off   7:off

then shutdown and reboot the system.

AS

[Ray2047]

Well I am now showing Udev-post on in run levels 2-5 but still have the original problem of a delayed connect and PCC loading very slowly, three minutes or more.

[AS]

please try the following, as root: service atieventsd restart
(on my system it take 5 or 6 secs.)

AS

[Ray2047]

Yes, takes about five or six seconds.

]# service atieventsd restart
Shutting down atieventsd: [root@localhost roj]#

[AS]

the only difference shown at runlevel 5 (from runlevel 3) were been atieventsd and dm (which really is the display manager).

I try to resume here, just thinking loudly:
- booting to runlevel 3 all went well
- booting to runlevel 5 lead to slowing PCC and/or drakconnect  (after some delay, say 5 minutes, drakconnect work without problems)
- the only visible difference in services look like to be atieventsd (which in turn doesn't look like responsible of the problems)  and dm.

Now I'm asking myself (and to anyone possibly), what could be the cause of the delay ?
Logic would suggest something related to the display manager... or the video card related modules ...

Then please, provide us the following info: (please use the button marked with "#"=Code to insert the info)
- output of lspci -v (video card)
- output of lsmod (video driver)
- in /var/log/messages each line is marked with date and time, should highlight some info about what is going on at the time of the "delay"

as far as I can understand reading your posts look like there are no problem related to Xorg itself, otherwyse please include also /var/log/Xorg.0.log

AS

[Ray2047]

Can't seem to get var/log/mesg to paste. I didn't see anything highlighted.

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00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP61 LPC Bridge (rev a1)
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device 5001
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0
        Capabilities: <access denied>

00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device 0c11
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0

00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SMBus (rev a2)
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device 0c11
        Flags: 66MHz, fast devsel, IRQ 10
        I/O ports at fc00 [size=64]
        I/O ports at 1c00 [size=64]
        I/O ports at 1c40 [size=64]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: nForce2_smbus
        Kernel modules: i2c-nforce2

00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a2)
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device 0c11
        Flags: 66MHz, fast devsel

00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB Controller (rev a3) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device 5004
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
        Memory at fe02f000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd
        Kernel modules: ohci-hcd

00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB Controller (rev a3) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device 5004
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
        Memory at fe02e000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
        Kernel modules: ehci-hcd

00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI bridge (rev a1) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=32
        I/O behind bridge: 0000b000-0000bfff
        Memory behind bridge: fdf00000-fdffffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: fde00000-fdefffff
        Capabilities: <access denied>

00:05.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device a002
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
        Memory at fe024000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
        Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 IDE (rev a2) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device 5002
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0
        [virtual] Memory at 000001f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8]
        [virtual] Memory at 000003f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1]
        [virtual] Memory at 00000170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8]
        [virtual] Memory at 00000370 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1]
        I/O ports at f000 [size=16]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: pata_amd
        Kernel modules: pata_amd, amd74xx

00:07.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2)
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device e000
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 25
        Memory at fe02d000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        I/O ports at ec00 [size=8]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: forcedeth
        Kernel modules: forcedeth

00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SATA Controller (rev a2) (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO])
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device b002
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
        I/O ports at 09f0 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 0bf0 [size=4]
        I/O ports at 0970 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 0b70 [size=4]
        I/O ports at d800 [size=16]
        Memory at fe02c000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: sata_nv
        Kernel modules: sata_nv

00:08.1 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SATA Controller (rev a2) (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO])
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device b002
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
        I/O ports at 09e0 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 0be0 [size=4]
        I/O ports at 0960 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 0b60 [size=4]
        I/O ports at c400 [size=16]
        Memory at fe02b000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: sata_nv
        Kernel modules: sata_nv

00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
        I/O behind bridge: 0000a000-0000afff
        Memory behind bridge: fa000000-fcffffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000d0000000-00000000dfffffff
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: pcieport
        Kernel modules: shpchp

00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
        Flags: fast devsel
        Capabilities: <access denied>

00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
        Flags: fast devsel

00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
        Flags: fast devsel

00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
        Flags: fast devsel
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: k8temp
        Kernel modules: k8temp

02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G71 [GeForce 7300 GS] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device 3413
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
        Memory at fa000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Memory at fb000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at fc000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: nvidia
        Kernel modules: nvidia-current, nvidia173, nvidia96xx, nouveau, nvidiafb


^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
snd_usb_audio          64903  0
snd_usb_lib            13866  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_rawmidi            16323  1 snd_usb_lib
af_packet              14122  2
ipv6                  222857  26
snd_hda_codec_realtek   191735  1
snd_hda_intel          19013  2
snd_hda_codec          66319  2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep               4802  2 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec
snd_seq_dummy           1266  0
snd_seq_oss            22774  0
snd_seq_midi_event      5464  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                40753  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          5214  4 snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            29040  0
snd_pcm                58856  4 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              15794  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_mixer_oss          11096  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd                    46351  18 snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss
soundcore               5680  1 snd
forcedeth              42550  0
sr_mod                 11640  0
sg                     21491  0
i2c_nforce2             4898  0
snd_page_alloc          6506  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
cdrom                  28716  1 sr_mod
binfmt_misc             5590  1
ext3                   98204  1
jbd                    39246  1 ext3
nvidia               9368610  28
i2c_core               18110  2 i2c_nforce2,nvidia
ohci1394               22696  0
sbp2                   16049  0
raw1394                16911  0
ieee1394               69727  3 ohci1394,sbp2,raw1394
fuse                   49640  2
ppdev                   4676  0
ohci_hcd               17668  0
rtc_cmos                6929  0
ehci_hcd               27927  0
dm_mod                 55938  0
thermal                10903  0
floppy                 44968  0
parport_pc             26665  0
usbcore               124336  5 snd_usb_audio,snd_usb_lib,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd
button                  4713  0
parport                28094  2 ppdev,parport_pc
evdev                   6341  7
processor              29811  0
k8temp                  2799  0
ide_generic             1035  0 [permanent]
pata_amd                7613  0
ata_generic             2315  0
ide_pci_generic         2306  0
ide_gd_mod             19349  0
ide_core               85822  3 ide_generic,ide_pci_generic,ide_gd_mod
pata_acpi               2303  0
sata_nv                16528  5
libata                145448  4 pata_amd,ata_generic,pata_acpi,sata_nv
sd_mod                 27633  6
scsi_mod              132396  5 sr_mod,sg,sbp2,libata,sd_mod
crc_t10dif              1195  1 sd_mod

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[AS]

Do not see anything wrong from lspci and lsmod (except probably you run lspci from unprivileged user, not root, now it doesn't matter however).

Instead I have very different opinion about /var/log/messages, log (at boot) start from a line similar to the following:

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Feb  6 02:01:28 dv1710 syslogd 1.5.0: restart.
Feb  6 02:01:29 dv1710 klogd: klogd 1.5.0, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Feb  6 02:01:29 dv1710 klogd: Linux version 2.6.33.7-pclos6.pae (root@localhost.localdomain) (gcc version 4.4.1 (GCC) ) #1 SMP Fri Oct 22 00:00:59 CDT 2010

and the insert a lot of info related to detected hw first, and to services later:

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Feb  6 02:01:35 dv1710 bluetoothd[1300]: Bluetooth deamon 4.72
Feb  6 02:01:36 dv1710 bluetoothd[1360]: Starting SDP server

i.e. from the above line you can see that bluetooth service started 6 seconds after boot.

later even netapplet is logged, in my case:

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Feb  6 02:02:26 dv1710 net_applet[4435]: ### Program is starting ###
and from the timestamp you can understand that netapplet started approx. 1 minutes after boot, and so on.

in your specific case, timestamps colud be a source of useful info to understand what is going on.

AS

[Ray2047]

AS, thank you for your patience and help. I think I am just going to bite the bullet and reinstall. Now my monitor is blanking after being idle for a while. That was fixed a long time ago with a bash script that apparently no longer runs at start up.