FC 13 has long boot time, Boot Messages Posted

[teknodude]

I run a dual boot with FC13 and win7 and it took a ridiculous time to boot in fc13 today.
The boot messages are listed on the bottom. I more concerned what the check failure is about on the first couple of lines. It added 3 minutes to my boot time.

Starting udev: udevd[543]: worker [558] unexpectedly returned with status 0x0100

udevd[543]: worker [558] failed while handling '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1/usb1'

udevadm settle - timeout of 180 seconds reached, the event queue contains:
  /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1/usb1/1-0:1.0 (1292)
Wait timeout. Will continue in the background.	[FAILED]


Setting hostname S13:  	[  OK  ]
Setting up Logical Volume Management:   2 logical volume(s) in volume group "vg_s13" now active
	[  OK  ]
Checking filesystems
/dev/mapper/vg_s13-lv_root: clean, 160060/2441216 files, 1447137/9748480 blocks
/dev/sda3: clean, 41/128016 files, 74172/512000 blocks
	[  OK  ]
Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode:  	[  OK  ]
Mounting local filesystems:  	[  OK  ]
Enabling local filesystem quotas:  	[  OK  ]
Enabling /etc/fstab swaps:  	[  OK  ]
Entering non-interactive startup
Starting monitoring for VG vg_s13:   2 logical volume(s) in volume group "vg_s13" monitored
	[  OK  ]
ip6tables: Applying firewall rules: 	[  OK  ]
iptables: Applying firewall rules: 	[  OK  ]
Checking for module nvidia.ko: 	[  OK  ]
Enabling the nvidia driver: Driver already enabled.
	[  OK  ]
Starting portreserve: 	[  OK  ]
Starting system logger: 	[  OK  ]
Starting irqbalance: 	[  OK  ]
Starting rpcbind: 	[  OK  ]
Starting mdmonitor: 	[  OK  ]
Starting system message bus: 	[  OK  ]
Setting network parameters... 	[  OK  ]
Starting NetworkManager daemon: 	[  OK  ]
Waiting for network...	[FAILED]
Starting Avahi daemon... 	[  OK  ]
Starting NFS statd: 	[  OK  ]
Starting RPC idmapd: 	[  OK  ]
Starting cups: 	[  OK  ]
Starting acpi daemon: 	[  OK  ]
Starting HAL daemon: 	[  OK  ]
Retrigger failed udev events	[  OK  ]
Starting PC/SC smart card daemon (pcscd): 	[  OK  ]
Enabling Bluetooth devices: Starting udev: udevd[543]: worker [558] unexpectedly returned with status 0x0100

udevd[543]: worker [558] failed while handling '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1/usb1'


udevadm settle - timeout of 180 seconds reached, the event queue contains:
  /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1/usb1/1-0:1.0 (1292)
Wait timeout. Will continue in the background.	[FAILED]
Setting hostname S13:  	[  OK  ]
Setting up Logical Volume Management:   2 logical volume(s) in volume group "vg_s13" now active
	[  OK  ]
Checking filesystems
/dev/mapper/vg_s13-lv_root: clean, 160060/2441216 files, 1447137/9748480 blocks
/dev/sda3: clean, 41/128016 files, 74172/512000 blocks
	[  OK  ]
Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode:  	[  OK  ]
Mounting local filesystems:  	[  OK  ]
Enabling local filesystem quotas:  	[  OK  ]
Enabling /etc/fstab swaps:  	[  OK  ]
Entering non-interactive startup
Starting monitoring for VG vg_s13:   2 logical volume(s) in volume group "vg_s13" monitored
	[  OK  ]
ip6tables: Applying firewall rules: 	[  OK  ]
iptables: Applying firewall rules: 	[  OK  ]
Checking for module nvidia.ko: 	[  OK  ]
Enabling the nvidia driver: Driver already enabled.
	[  OK  ]
Starting portreserve: 	[  OK  ]
Starting system logger: 	[  OK  ]
Starting irqbalance: 	[  OK  ]
Starting rpcbind: 	[  OK  ]
Starting mdmonitor: 	[  OK  ]
Starting system message bus: 	[  OK  ]
Setting network parameters... 	[  OK  ]
Starting NetworkManager daemon: 	[  OK  ]
Waiting for network...	[FAILED]
Starting Avahi daemon... 	[  OK  ]
Starting NFS statd: 	[  OK  ]
Starting RPC idmapd: 	[  OK  ]
Starting cups: 	[  OK  ]
Starting acpi daemon: 	[  OK  ]
Starting HAL daemon: 	[  OK  ]
Retrigger failed udev events	[  OK  ]
Starting PC/SC smart card daemon (pcscd): 	[  OK  ]
Enabling Bluetooth devices:
Starting sshd: 	[  OK  ]
ntpdate: Synchronizing with time server: 	[FAILED]
Starting sendmail: 	[  OK  ]
Starting sm-client: 	[  OK  ]
Starting abrt daemon: 	[  OK  ]
Starting crond: 	[  OK  ]
Starting atd: 	[  OK  ]
	[  OK  ]
Starting sshd: 	[  OK  ]
ntpdate: Synchronizing with time server: 	[FAILED]
Starting sendmail: 	[  OK  ]
Starting sm-client: 	[  OK  ]
Starting abrt daemon: 	[  OK  ]
Starting crond: 	[  OK  ]
Starting atd: 	[  OK  ]

[scott32746]

Hello,
I would think the USB fail and network fail are slowing you down.
Try un-pluging the USB drive.
network fail, Are you using NetWorkmanger ? if so try switch and setup network
May try to posting the fail msg from /var/log/messages.

[teknodude]

If you're saying it is a USB drive problem, then that is weird. Would FC still try to detect a usb external drive even though the power is off?

The network fail is caused by my wireless. For some reason it always says fail, but once I boot into desktop, it connects without a problem. I believe the boot process times out too quickly for the wireless to connect to my network.

[stoat]

I don't have anything for the USB drive except that I don't have those problems at boot time whether my externals are already on or not.

For the network thing, I recommend that you disable the network service. If you're using NetworkManager, then the network service is not needed at boot time. True, NetworkManager needs the network service, but it will start it later when it needs it. But if the network service set to enabled it can spend some time trying to acquire an IP address at boot time. You also can disable wpa_supplicant in services for the same reason (not needed at boot time and NM will start it later).

Lastly, and probably less importantly for the long boot time (but they all add up), are unnecessary services enabled. Do you need things like sendmail, sshd, mdmonitor? And then there are some other things that you may not miss such as abrt, avahi-daemon, dnsmasq, firstboot, netconsole, netfs, ntpd, ntpdate, and others. Anyway, mjmwired always publishes a guide for this kind of thing. Here it is for Fedora 13...

http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-services-f13.html