Bootup delays

[Bart Vanbrabant]

Bart Vanbrabant wrote:

>Dave Jones wrote:
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>>On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 10:46:03AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
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>>>Bart Vanbrabant (bart.vanbrabant at zoeloelip.be) said: 
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>>>>I finally found the problem. It's caused by the battery acpi module. I
>>>>searched for insmod in rc.sysinit and there is only one part that uses
>>>>insmod instead of modprobe. When I change this into modprobe my system
>>>>boots normal and haldeamon starts. But the battery-applet doesn't work.
>>>>I tried to do /sbin/insmod battery.ko and it takes a long time to finish.
>>>>Hal crashes when I boot with a new kernel. I now move the battery.ko module out the acpi directory, this way I can boot in a normal way but the battery applet doesn't work of course.
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>>>>What should I do now?
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>>>You can file a kernel bug about the battery driver, although it's probably
>>>related to something funky in your BIOS as well.
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>>There are a number of kernel bugs open on the acpi battery stuff
>>already. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/showdependencytree.cgi?id=165150
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>>Chances are this is a dupe of one of them.
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>>		Dave
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>Ok. But must of them are quite old. Mine only appeared after kernel 1426
>which I think is post 2.6.13-rc2. I don't know how to search for changes
>in the kernel source. I'm not familiar with git. I search the kernel
>changelog but I can't find anything about the battery module.
>If you need more information, just let me know.
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>Bart
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rc5-git3 solved the problem. The 1451 version from rawhide fixed it.
Thanks for the help

Bart

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