[plug] Slow login

[nofixed]

>On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, nofixed wrote:
>
>> Can anyone shed light on why it takes so long to login to MDK 10?
>> 200MHz cpu, 81MB ram, 2.6.3-7 kernel, text-mode login.
>
>It should be instant. Any errors in the logs?
>I'd suspect a network timeout, so run tcpdump while you are logging
>in.
>That might answer it.

Thanks for the replies, and pointing out the obvious.  I sometimes
wonder if I'm all there :-(

It is a timeout problem, but not network.  The computer has a damaged
floppy disk controller :-(((  The following is an extract from
/var/log/messages

Aug 20 12:28:25 localhost login(pam_unix)[1710]: session opened for
user root by (uid=0)
Aug 20 12:28:25 localhost  -- root[1710]: ROOT LOGIN ON vc/1
Aug 20 12:28:28 localhost perl: drakupdate_fstab called with --auto
--add /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 
Aug 20 12:28:35 localhost perl: drakupdate_fstab called with --auto
--add /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part9 
Aug 20 12:28:43 localhost perl: drakupdate_fstab called with --auto
--add /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 
Aug 20 12:29:38 localhost login(pam_unix)[1713]: session opened for
user jim by (uid=0)
Aug 20 12:29:38 localhost kernel: inserting floppy driver for
2.6.3-7mdk
Aug 20 12:29:38 localhost kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Aug 20 12:29:41 localhost kernel: floppy0: no floppy controllers found
Aug 20 12:29:41 localhost modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting floppy
(/lib/modules/2.6.3-7mdk/kernel/drivers/block/floppy.ko.gz): No such
device 
Aug 20 12:29:41 localhost kernel: inserting floppy driver for
2.6.3-7mdk
Aug 20 12:29:41 localhost kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Aug 20 12:29:44 localhost kernel: floppy0: no floppy controllers found
Aug 20 12:29:44 localhost modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting floppy
(/lib/modules/2.6.3-7mdk/kernel/drivers/block/floppy.ko.gz): No such
device 

Questions:
 Why is trying to set up the floppy for jim and not root?
 How do I tell the boot process not to look at the floppy?
 Why has the problem only started this last install (#2)?

I have found references to ide-floppy in modules.devfs, but the
comments at the top of the file indicate it is automatically
generated each time devfs is installed.

Jim
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