Dave Gutteridge wrote:
If I boot with "rhgb quiet" off, my computer boots in 1 minute and 30 seconds.
If I boot with "rhgb quiet" on, my computer boots in 3m11s. That's a long time to wait.
Significantly, when booting with "rhgb quiet", right at the moment X takes over, there is a 1m36s pause where the screen is blank except for the hourglass cursor turning around and around.
Of course, if my main priority was to simply boot quickly, I would simply remove the "rhgb quiet" option from the boot process. And I'm not opposed to doing that.
However, this pause only started happening recently, so I wonder why it exists at all.
When booting with "rhgb quiet" off, I tried to look for any errors or indications of a problem, but it seemed to boot mostly without pause or error. There was one message which was like an error warning, which said something about a "microcode device doesn't exist?". But text was moving across the screen quickly and I couldn't write down exactly what it said.
Before I give in and remove the "rhgb quiet" option permanently, is there any way I might be able to diagnose and fix this delay problem? I'd rather be telling the computer how to boot, instead of it telling me.
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By chance, did this slowdown or hang or whatever begin after you made a change(s) to your /etc/resolv.conf or /etc/hosts or /etc/sysconfig/network files? Specifically, check this warning in /etc/hosts.
cat /etc/hosts # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
FOR SURE, a problem with the resolver will cause sendmail to hang for approx 60 seconds.