[plug] Slow login

[Jim Householder]

>>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
>

>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

I need to keep looking.  I removed or commented all references to
'floppy' in /etc/modules.devfs and /etc/modprobe.devfs.  The errors
went away, but the delay remained.

I suspect a file permissions problem since there is no delay for root.
The questions above remain.

Jim