Re: something at init is taking about 31s to finish

[<briand@aracnet.com>]

On Sun, 30 Aug 2015 13:18:19 +0200
Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> wrote:

> briand@aracnet.com wrote:
> > On Sun, 30 Aug 2015 04:25:36 +0200 Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> wrote:
> >> briand@aracnet.com wrote:
> 
> >>> There's no way anyone can help until i can get a trace of what's
> >>> going on at boot.
> >> 
> >> Jessie or newer? With systemd?
> >> 
> >> systemd-analyze blame
> 
> 
> >          29.597s networking.service
> >           3.256s systemd-suspend.service
> 
> > aha.  So I need to dig deeper into networking.service
> 
> networking.service is /etc/init.d/networking. Somehow the parsing and
> acting upon /etc/network/interfaces is slow.
> 
> Please share the contents of /etc/network/interfaces, maybe something
> odd stands out in there.
> 

cat /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

there's this in dmesg:

[    6.210098] EXT4-fs (sda7): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: 
(null)
[   35.827945] r8169 0000:03:00.0: firmware: failed to load rtl_nic/rtl8168f-1.fw (-2)
[   35.827963] r8169 0000:03:00.0: Direct firmware load failed with error -2
[   35.827965] r8169 0000:03:00.0: Falling back to user helper
[   35.828580] r8169 0000:03:00.0 eth0: unable to load firmware patch rtl_nic/rtl8168f-1.fw (-12)

so it is the dreaded r8169 firmware crappola.  the system works fine not loading it.  is there any way to tell the module to not even try and load it ?

Brian