[Novalug] pause in boot

Jon LaBadie novalugml@jgcomp.com
Fri Mar 14 00:09:23 EDT 2014


On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 08:22:35PM -0400, Scott Talbert wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2014, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> 
> >When I first got this system last year it would boot in
> >less than 30 seconds.  Now there is a 90 second pause in
> >the boot at about 5 sec.  After the pause booting completes
> >in another 18 seconds.
> >
> >Below is the dmesg output around the pause.  Anyone able
> >to see what I should research?
> >
> >[  5.287943] type=1305 audit(1394751668.258:4): audit_pid=974 old=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 su bj=system_u:system_r:auditd_t:s0 res=1
> >[ 93.815681] it87: Found IT8728F chip at 0xa30, revision 1
> >[ 93.815700] it87: Beeping is supported
> 
> That it87 sure looks suspicious.  It seems to be getting stuck while
> probing that device (although it could be something else that is
> causing the pause and that's just what happens next).

BTW minor follow-up.  I found a description of the "it87XXX" chips.


 "These chips are 'Super I/O chips', supporting floppy disks,
  infrared ports, joysticks and other miscellaneous stuff. For
  hardware monitoring, they include an 'environment controller'
  with 3 temperature sensors, 3 fan rotation speed sensors,
  8 voltage sensors, associated alarms, and chassis intrusion
  detection."

I regularly use the sensor features via the "sensors" command
and "gkrellm".

Jon

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