Bug 139868

Summary:	extremely slow boot: openmosix ?
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Peter Bienstman (RETIRED) <pbienst>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Konstantin Arkhipov (RETIRED) <voxus>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	critical	CC:	vapier, voxus
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Peter Bienstman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-07-10 05:42:41 UTC

We are running a vanilla 2.4.27 openmosix kernel. Decompressing and running the kernel image goes very smoothly, but as soon as the init scripts start running, the machine crawls to a halt and takes several hours to complete the init process.

My guess is that this has something to do with udev. A recent baselayout upgrade barfed on installed udev (saying all udev ebuild were masked), so I uninstalled udev, because I'm running a 2.4 kernel.

Comment 1 Peter Bienstman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-07-10 06:52:22 UTC

Some more info: by placing debug statements in /sbin/rc, I've been able to see that there is several minute delay after printing "INIT 2.86 booting" and actually starting /sbin/rc.

There is also a big delay after "Started device management daemon 1.3.25"

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2006-07-14 21:39:35 UTC

i dont see how udev could have anything to do with it ... udev doesnt work on 2.4 kernels, only devfs does

sounds more like an openmosix issue, but i have no experience with it so i cant really help with the debug here

Comment 3 Michael Imhof (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-07-16 15:03:16 UTC

maybe voxus has an idea

Comment 4 Konstantin Arkhipov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-08-11 04:20:10 UTC

what oM's patchset you're using?

Comment 5 Peter Bienstman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-08-22 01:09:55 UTC

It was at that time the latest tab patchset for 2.4.27. However, I can't find it anymore, since his pages are now all about 2.6.

Comment 6 Peter Bienstman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-10-03 05:13:36 UTC

This actually turns out to be caused by http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132550

Not easy to track down...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 132550 ***