Mepis pauses what is it?
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I have noticed mepis pausing a lot recently midway during boot up.
It is task called "enterprise volume management system" I've found out what it does but why would pause the bootup like it does?
no this this is not the disk
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no this this is not the disk check thats done every 100 mounts. Its something else that pauses the boot for about 15 seconds and is annoying.
the associated website http://evms.sourceforge.net/ describes it as such:
EVMS provides a single, unified system for handling all of your storage management tasks. EVMS recognizes all of the disks on your system and allows for a variety of partitioning schemes. Software-RAID and logical volume groups can be managed in EVMS. File systems can be created and checked, and are automatically updated when changes are made to the underlying volumes. With EVMS, there is no longer a need for several individual utilities for performing each of these tasks.
Is this really necessary?
Temporarily Disable?
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If you think that this tool is what's causing the problem, you can validate it by temporarily disabling the process.
The process startup is called /etc/init.d/evms. There are startup links (on my system) in the following locations:
/etc/rc0.d/S49evms
/etc/rc6.d/S49evms
/etc/rcS.d/S27evms
You can temporarily delete the links and restart your box and evms will not run. To do so, open a konsole, and "su" to root (and enter root's password). Perform the following command:
# rm /etc/rc*d/S*evms
Please keep in mind, I have no idea what other ramifications this might have. So write back with your results if this works (or even if it doesn't so we have it documented) 
Jon
The ability to comfortably use a computer is directly proportional to desire to listen, learn, and experiment, and is inversely proportional to the fear, anger, and stubbornness that you show.
Well the boot delay has gone
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Well the boot delay has gone and it boots up a lot quicker now and so far i can't see any difference in the performance of mepis.
ok ive found that this
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ok ive found that this "enterprise volume management system" that starts during the boot process has a gui that can be run from a root shell. When i enter evmsgui in a root shell i get an error screen pop up that has the following info in it:
DosSegMgr: Warning: using an alternate geometry (cylinders, heads, sectors)f or drive hdb.
The kernel reported drive geometry is: C= 3738 H= 16 S= 63
The partition records report a geometry of: C= 3738 H= 255 S= 63
Using the alternate geometry reported by the partition records.
Then after a few seconds the "EVMS administration utility" GUI opens up.
I don't understand what this utility is supposed to do but i think that error message has something to do with why mepis pauses during the boot up when it reaches the point that it runs the EVMS util.
Does anyone know what all this is about and does my hard disk have a problem as it would indicate?
What Root File System Do You Have?
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Hi roadrash. When you set up your system, what file system did you choose for your root partition? Was it ext3? If so, then the system is probably checking to see that partition was shut down properly, and does not need to be cleaned up. The ext3 file system is a "journaled" file system based on ext2 (the previously used file system). Both of them need to be occasionally checked. This is normally automatically done every 100 reboots and/or days.
You can see the various status messages during bootup by hitting the Escape key once the Mepis boot screen shows up. That may give you a better idea of where things are slowing down. Let us know what that info is, and we can give you some better clues
Jon
The ability to comfortably use a computer is directly proportional to desire to listen, learn, and experiment, and is inversely proportional to the fear, anger, and stubbornness that you show.