On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 13:11 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 09:53 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > What is causing udevstart to take so long on your machine? On my dinky > > little laptop it runs in less than 3 seconds. Odds are it's the rules > > that you are using. Care to post the rules file? > > Sure. I'm running J5 packages, all up to date. > Ugh, it's my fault then. The J5 packages includes hal, look at [1]. I know why this happens too, working on a fix, stay tuned. Thanks, David [1] : [root@ixus root]# tree /etc/dev.d/ /etc/dev.d/ |-- default | |-- hal.dev -> /usr/libexec/hal.dev | |-- pam_console.dev | `-- selinux.dev `-- net `-- hotplug.dev 2 directories, 4 files [root@ixus root]# time udevstart real 1m37.199s user 0m2.015s sys 0m3.292s [root@ixus root]# mv /etc/dev.d/default/hal.dev /tmp [root@ixus root]# tree /etc/dev.d/ /etc/dev.d/ |-- default | |-- pam_console.dev | `-- selinux.dev `-- net `-- hotplug.dev 2 directories, 3 files [root@ixus root]# time udevstart real 0m4.725s user 0m1.787s sys 0m2.955s