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Initializing hardware... Storage Network Audio

Offline srushik

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Initializing hardware... Storage Network Audio
« on: August 27, 2008, 09:17:04 PM »
Running the current release of SME 7
During boot up, I receive these messages.
Welcome to SME Server
Press'I' to enter interactive startup
Setting clock (UTC):  <time details>   [  OK  ]
Starting udev:   [  OK  ]
Initializing hardware... Storage Network Audio   

The cursor hangs on this line and never progresses any farther.  This is running on a Dell Dimension 2400 workstation.

What is the OS trying to do at this point.  What could be causing it to hang?
« Last Edit: August 27, 2008, 11:32:40 PM by srushik »
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Re: Initializing hardware... Storage Network Audio
« Reply #1 on: August 27, 2008, 09:48:48 PM »
Running the current release of SME 7
During boot up, I receive these messages.
Welcome to SME Server
Press'I' to enter interactive startup
Setting clock (UTC):  <time details>   [  OK  ]
Starting udev:   [  OK  ]
Initializing hardware... Storage Network Audio   

The cursor hangs on this line and never progresses any farther.  This is running on a Dell Dimension 2400 workstation.

What is the OS trying to do at this point.  What is could be causing it to hang?
I think your best bet for this is to try the bugtracker so the core devs can try and help you diagnose this.
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Re: Initializing hardware... Storage Network Audio
« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2008, 12:31:09 AM »
Bugzilla does not consider it a bug, and closed it.

Does anyone know what is it trying to do at this point in the boot?  Is there anyway to get around it?

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Offline CharlieBrady

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Re: Initializing hardware... Storage Network Audio
« Reply #3 on: August 28, 2008, 01:16:51 AM »
Bugzilla does not consider it a bug, and closed it.

No, that is not correct. It is a bug, in either your hardware or the linux kernel. Unfortunately, the SME server development team is unable to fix either problem.

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Does anyone know what is it trying to do at this point in the boot?

It's loading the kernel modules which have been identified as matching your various hardware. At the point you show, it is loading "other" drivers (the network and audio drivers have already been loaded). Here's the code which is running (from /etc/rc.sysinit):

Code: [Select]
echo -n $" network"

# Sound
for module in `/sbin/modprobe -c | awk '/^alias[[:space:]]+snd-card-[[:digit:]]+[[:sp
ace:]]/ { print $3 }'` $audio; do
        load_module $module
done

echo -n $" audio"

# Everything else (duck and cover)
for module in $other ; do
        load_module $module
done

echo -n $" done"
success
echo

Judging by the comment there, trouble sometimes happens at that point.

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Is there anyway to get around it?

Gavin gave you one suggestion in the bug tracker. Google might suggest some others to you.

Booting with the "noapic" command argument sometimes helps with buggy drivers. Disabling or removing unneeded hardware can also help.


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Re: Initializing hardware... Storage Network Audio
« Reply #4 on: August 29, 2008, 12:28:36 AM »
Thank you for getting me pointed in the right direction.

In the BIOS, I disabled "Legacy USB Support"

That solved this issue.  It totally boots normally now.
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Re: Initializing hardware... Storage Network Audio
« Reply #5 on: August 29, 2008, 01:26:10 AM »
Disabling USB in Bios works also for me. Thanks

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Re: Initializing hardware... Storage Network Audio
« Reply #6 on: November 10, 2010, 03:44:41 AM »
Hey guys just a heads up and thank you for the solution- been trying to resolve this for a while- disabled legacy USB and booted fine.