BOOT PROBLEMS
I move the discussion began on the mail "diskless work
station-questions" to this one to separate the two arguments.
Shortly: a new installation of diabina-edu on a sigle partition of
15Gb (ext3) with 600Mb of swap was taking very long time to boot
(almost 6 minutes).
The splash screen was shown for short time, just after the message
"loading initial driver" it disappear showing messages.
The message shown is blaiming about nss_ldap "nss_ldap failed to bind
LDAP server...".
Yesterday I did same new tests (here follow the list):
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I made a fsck.ext3 (from another distribution) and the boot time
changed: it took 3'00''.
The splash screen last longer, till the message "detecting hardware".
The next boot (call it 2th) took longer: 3'38''.
The splash screen last till the message "loading essential drivers".
The 3th boot almost the same: 3'28''.
The splash screen last till the message "loading essential drivers".
Anather fsck.ext3
That time it asked "superblock last mount time is in the future,
sistema? <s>" and i chose yes (s is yes).
It asked 2 times. (The massege i reported can be not perfect and
"sistema" is the italian word for "fix it?").
The 1th boot after the fsck behaved exactly like the first: 3'00''.
The splash screen last longer, till the message "detecting hardware".
The 2th boot 3'38''.
The splash screen last till the message "loading essential
drivers"...like beofre.
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At that point I noticed that I didn't plug the PCMCIA ethernet card
(usualy used like eth0 by debian edu).
I pluged it and rebooted. It took 4'08'' and the splashcreen last till
the message "loading essential drivers".
I thought it could be a problem of filesystem and I reinstalled
debian-edu (I still have the image of the previous installation, so if
you wish, I can restore it and make tests).
My idea was to use reiserfs but it wasn't on the filesystem list. Then
I tried xfs, but it said samething like "unable to mount / with xfs,
you can return to partitioning".
At the end I chose ext2.
The 1th boot (with the PCMCIA pluged in) last 2'21'' and the
splashscreen last all the time.
The 2th and 3th boot (without the PCMCIA) last 1'00'' and the
splashscreen last all the time.
The 4th boot (with the PCMCIA pluged in) last 1'00'' and the
splashscreen last all the time.
Let me say that's cool!
When I logged in kde after the first boot, it shown a message:
"debconf on Tjener.inter
same error were found during installation
ERROR: ./filesystem Using ext2 on /, ERROR: filesystems: Using ext2 on
/dev/.static/dev
consider reporting them to debian-edu developers".
I logged in kde after the 4th boot and it didn't show the message again.
Considerations ?
Are there any problems using ext2?
I didn't test the clients yet.
I think I'm going to reinstall it on ext3 and see if the problems
reported above are going to repeate.
Let me know if you whant I wait and do samething.
Thanks.
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