Bug 179968

Summary: 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4 takes a long time to boot
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Norman Gaywood <ngaywood>
Component: kernelAssignee: Ingo Molnar <mingo>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 4CC: davej, wtogami
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Hardware: i686   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: 2.6.15-1.1831_FC4 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Norman Gaywood 2006-02-04 03:14:21 UTC 
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7

Description of problem:
System takes a long time to boot. Seems to hang for a long time at:

Intializing hardware...  [something else] storage

After about 45 minutes system finishes booting.

I don't know if it's related but several CPUs log a "BUG: write-lock lockup". See dmesg output.

This system is a 4 processor Xeon system with HT enabled. 4 Gig of RAM lots of
SCSI disks configured as SW raid.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-smp-2.6.15-1.1830_FC4

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot kernel-smp-2.6.15-1.1830_FC4
  

Actual Results:  System takes a long time to boot

Expected Results:  System should not hang for a long period in the initializing hardware stage

Additional info:

Using udev-071-0.FC4.2

kernel-smp-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4 did not behave this way
Comment 1 Norman Gaywood 2006-02-04 03:15:33 UTC 
Created attachment 124148 [details]
dmesg
Comment 2 Norman Gaywood 2006-02-04 03:17:40 UTC 
Created attachment 124149 [details]
/var/log/messages

Notice the time difference on the first messages from the shutdown to the start
of the next boot.
Comment 3 Norman Gaywood 2006-02-04 03:18:29 UTC 
Created attachment 124150 [details]
grub.conf
Comment 4 Norman Gaywood 2006-02-08 13:08:41 UTC 
Problem seems to have disappeared with  2.6.15-1.1831_FC4smp

Weird. The changelog does not indicate that much changed.

No more delay on boot.

No more BUG: messages.