Bug 516252 - Plymouth progress bar does not correspond to boot
Summary: Plymouth progress bar does not correspond to boot
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: plymouth
Version: 11
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-08-07 16:50 UTC by Adam Pribyl
Modified: 2010-06-28 14:01 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-06-28 14:01:52 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
boot-duration file for "fast boot" (596 bytes, text/plain)
2009-08-07 16:50 UTC, Adam Pribyl
no flags Details
boot-duration file for normal boot (596 bytes, text/plain)
2009-08-07 16:52 UTC, Adam Pribyl
no flags Details

Description Adam Pribyl 2009-08-07 16:50:47 UTC
Created attachment 356681 [details]
boot-duration file for "fast boot"

Description of problem:
For several consequent boots I've experienced the plymouth progress bar (text one, no kms) was already up to 100% while real boot procedure was just about to get IP address for eth0 devices (found by pressing Esc), which is far from being 100% ready.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
plymouth-0.7.0-0.2009.05.15.1.fc11.x86_64

How reproducible:
Do not know. You can use the attached boot-duration file.

Additional info:
In my opinion this gets worse and worse with every boot, but this is just my feeling.

Comment 1 Adam Pribyl 2009-08-07 16:52:50 UTC
Created attachment 356683 [details]
boot-duration file for normal boot

Attached is the boot duration file created by the first boot after I deleted the one that was stored and showing incorrect progress.

Comment 2 Adam Pribyl 2009-09-10 17:49:39 UTC
It is here again. If I can provide any other information to debug this, please let me know:
0.044:RCkernelparam
0.044:RChostname
0.899:RCmountfs
0.902:RCswap
0.903:microcode_ctl
0.905:sysstat
0.905:akmods
0.906:cpuspeed
0.907:ip6tables
0.909:iptables
0.909:nvidia
0.941:network
0.947:auditd
0.949:portreserve
0.951:restorecond
0.953:rsyslog
0.954:irqbalance
0.954:rpcbind
0.955:nfslock
0.956:rpcidmapd
0.957:rpcgssd
0.957:messagebus
0.959:cups
0.963:netfs
0.963:acpid
0.964:lm_sensors
0.964:pcscd
0.965:udev-post
0.965:autofs
0.974:bluetooth
0.974:sshd
0.977:ntpd
0.978:sendmail
0.979:crond
0.980:munin-node
0.986:smolt
0.987:atd
0.987:avahi-daemon
0.988:haldaemon
1.000:wine
1.000:local

Comment 3 Charlie Brej 2009-09-10 19:09:18 UTC
I can't solve the issue of your system booting slowly, all I can do is stop the progress bar from progressing all the way to the end before it mounts / and checks the progress times file. I'll put a limit of 25% of how far it can progress without any data from a progress file.

Somewhere between RChostname and RCmountfs you have something very slow happening (fsck?). It may be in your /var/log/messages.

Comment 4 Adam Pribyl 2009-09-11 09:45:29 UTC
This is missunderstanding. My system is not booting slow or fast, just the progress bar does not correspond to boot process. In the case of "fast" boot progress bar rockets to its end just after it starts, but under the hood the boot process is still the same one.

Please compare the files for so called "fast boot" and "normal boot".  You can see that timestamps in "normal boot" file are let's say equaly spread over the boot time, but in the "fast boot" those are pushed towards 1.0. The boot process (services starting) under plymouth is still the same, there is no difference (no fsck), just the timestamp stored in plymouth boot-duration file are somehow tending to be closer to 1.0 for most of the timestamps with every boot. IMHO there is some calculation problem in the mechanism that is correcting the values with every boot.

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