Bug 1148819 - system takes very long time to boot
Summary: system takes very long time to boot
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: abrt
Version: 20
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: abrt
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-10-02 13:00 UTC by Neal Becker
Modified: 2015-06-29 22:46 UTC (History)
16 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2015-06-29 22:46:03 UTC
Type: Bug
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/var/log/messages (244.26 KB, text/plain)
2014-10-02 13:00 UTC, Neal Becker
no flags Details

Description Neal Becker 2014-10-02 13:00:59 UTC
Created attachment 943366 [details]
/var/log/messages

Description of problem:

This server takes an extremely long time to boot.  I have attached /var/log/messages.  Maybe someone has a clue what is causing this?

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Comment 1 Jan Synacek 2014-10-03 05:36:05 UTC
It seems that abrtd is going crazy with

Oct  2 08:49:52 nbecker7 abrtd: Can't open file '/var/tmp/abrt/pyhook-2013-01-30-19:34:06-6083/type': No such file or directory
Oct  2 08:49:53 nbecker7 abrtd: Unlocked '/var/tmp/abrt/ccpp-2013-02-04-07:11:56-2436/.lock' (no or corrupted 'type' file)

all over the place. You're also getting a few file related problems as well. That might indicate a HDD/filesystem problem.

Comment 2 Jakub Filak 2014-10-03 07:07:41 UTC
Something has deleted files from /var/tmp/abrt/directories and left that directories empty. If you don't mind losing some crash data, you can safely remove /var/tmp/abrt (abrt will recreate it empty). Please, after cleaning up /var/tmp/abrt try to reboot and report the results here.

Comment 3 Neal Becker 2014-10-03 11:25:29 UTC
rm /var/tmp/abrt now boot is much better

A different issue:
I also had previously rm /var/log/journal/*/*.  This is the 2nd system of mine where on boot, rsyslogd went nuts, I suppose trying to process all the stuff in journal files.

The journal files do not exactly slow boot, but cause high load for potentially minutes each time the system is booted.

I think something should be done to prevent accumulation of junk there from causing slow rot of linux systems.

Comment 4 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2014-10-03 12:37:48 UTC
(In reply to Neal Becker from comment #3)
> I think something should be done to prevent accumulation of junk there from
> causing slow rot of linux systems.
rsyslog should (and does, afaik) just read new messages from the journal. The issue is that sometimes journal access is just slow, especially on rotational media.

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