From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Knoblauch Subject: Re: [Bug #13178] Booting very slow Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 00:22:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <783496.86803.qm@web32608.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <424718.52835.qm@web32607.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: kernel-testers-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Kay Sievers Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kernel Testers List ----- Original Message ---- > From: Kay Sievers > To: Martin Knoblauch > Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki ; Linux Kernel Mailing List ; Kernel Testers List > Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 2:26:04 AM > Subject: Re: [Bug #13178] Booting very slow > > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:15, Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > >> Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13178 > >> Subject : Booting very slow > >> Submitter : Martin Knoblauch > >> Date : 2009-04-24 12:45 (23 days old) > >> References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124057716231773&w=4 > > > > The issue is still open. It turns out that starting with 2.6.29-rc1 > /proc/mounts already has a "sysfs" line when entering the startup scripts from > initrd. This breaks the RHEL4 firmware hotplug script. > > Is that possibly a missing/failing "umount /sys" _in_ initramfs, which > leaves the sysfs entry in /proc/mounts behind, which then shows up as > a duplicate when running in the real rootfs? > could be. Remains the question, why it never showed up before 2.6.29. I compared my initrd images for 2.6.28 and 2.6.29-rc1, and they only differ in the module-binaries. Cheers Martin