Slow Booting Fedora 12
November 25th, 2009I have the 64 bit version of Fedora 12 installed into a virtual machine and the boot times are terrible. By terrible I mean anywhere from 45 seconds to just over a minute.
I’ve cut the starting services right back to the basics and set it to autologin but it still takes ages. It seems that even getting to udev takes considerably longer than it used to, plus there’s a very noticeable delay before X starts and the desktop is displayed.
For comparison my Fedora 11 machine (32 bit) running the same services regularly boot in 23 to 30 seconds.
It could be to do with the virtual machine since I has to create an xorg.conf due to a problem with Virtualbox guest additions and Fedora 12 but I doubt that’s the sole cause. I did read a bug report about probing for the floppy drive but that’s not my problem.
I’ll just hope that either a new version of Virtualbox or a future Fedora 12 update fixes this.
January 20th, 2010 at 9:42 pm
When you installed Fedora 12, did you select the option for syncronizing the time server with a central server? I did this and had problems with long boot up and login times. I re-installed and UNCHECKED the sync with central time server options and it boots and logins really fast now.
January 20th, 2010 at 9:56 pm
Hi Matthew,
thanks for the idea, but I don’t have it synced to a time server. It hangs on boot when running udev, I expect a small delay here while Fedora probes the hardware but it takes far too long.
cheers,
Bob Peers
January 31st, 2010 at 12:07 am
I have F12 64bit installed and exactly the same problem. before I get the login screen there is a prompt which stays for something like 60 seconds. I suppose it gets then a timeout and the “usual” startup starts.
Plz, Let me know if you could fix this problem!