Actually, the hardware initialization where I'm seeing the problem happens in /etc/rc.sysinit. I have added an extra debugging line in there to show the names of all of the misc devices that it loads after audio. One of them is apparently the problem, but I haven't been able to reproduce the problem since then, so I'm not sure exactly which one.

Bowie

Paul Malinowski wrote:

Probably, I must admit that I haven't got a minute to get back to that problem. Look for kudzu or discover, read about hwdata.

If it's some production system and you are afraid of changes, make a backup copy of some runlevel where runlevel<6 and runlevel>1, copy everything from default runlevel (3) and play with that.

Paul

-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Bowie Bailey Sent: 11 October 2006 17:55 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: RE: [CentOS] Server hangs initializing audio

The system boots fine most of the time. I only see this happen occasionally. Where do I disable the hardware initialization? I took a quick look at the init files and didn't see anything obvious in there. Is it kudzu that is doing it?

Bowie

Paul Malinowski wrote:

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Bowie,

I had the same problem yesterday on my laptop with SIS5513 chipset. I've tried acpi=off and nomodprobe - didn't help

I will come back to that problem when I will have time, but what I will do is disabling hardware initialization in default init level, and then I will try to play with audio module manually. You might do the same...

Boot up from some live cd ubuntu works fine (I'm running it on the same laptop right now) and change init scripts.

Paul

-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Bowie Bailey Sent: 11 October 2006 16:44 To: CentOS mailing list (E-mail) Subject: [CentOS] Server hangs initializing audio

I have a server that frequently hangs while rebooting. I see no errors, but during the boot process it stops at this stage:

Initializing hardware... storage network audio

The cursor sits just after the word "audio" and I have to do a hard reset to get out of it. This server has no audio capabilities, so I am thinking that I just need to disable the audio stuff so it doesn't even try to load it, but I don't know where to look.