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Thanks doktor5000 for the welcome. Appreciate it.
I normally boot without 'splash' and 'quiet' so I see the 'running lines'. Mageia pauses several times at 'reconfiguration requests by administrator' and at these few times, the pause is long wait. It may very well be the pause is for the 'line' after that, but I have no means to check what these are, Pressing 'scroll lock', 'page up', 'page down' , I still couldn't 'catch it'. (Slower reflexes now, but If you can tell me another alternative for this 'pager scroll', will appreciate it).
I've timed after pressing 'boot' at grub to when notification audio starts is over 2 minutes, and that is when no modifications were done at at Mageia control centre or any configuration file saved. The 'reconfiguration requests by administrator' lines will still appear regardless. Thanks for asking, will appreciate any help here, even it is not really a big thing at all (I've got time to wait 2 mins).

Welcome gohlip
Do /var/log/syslog give any hint?
Do you have bootlogd installed and enabled to start at boot?
It may give some result.
(Disclaimer: i now nearly nothing about this, so search mageia forum, wiki, and google.. and/or start a new thread in appropriate forum section

gohlip wrote:Mageia pauses several times at 'reconfiguration requests by administrator' and at these few times, the pause is long wait. It may very well be the pause is for the 'line' after that, but I have no means to check what these are

Quite weird, never seen those or even heard of them. I'll try to take a look.

morgano wrote:Welcome gohlip
Do /var/log/syslog give any hint?
Do you have bootlogd installed and enabled to start at boot?
It may give some result.
(Disclaimer: i now nearly nothing about this, so search mageia forum, wiki, and google.. and/or start a new thread in appropriate forum section

/var/log/syslog as follows, (sorry, pastebin.com says I've exceeded limit, kdepastebin hangs up browser, any other pastebin suggestions? sure you need this large file?)
http://paste.ubuntu.com/1091358/

Thanks.

Noted the start-up time has improved from over 2 minutes to 55 secs (time from boot at grub to start notification audio).
Did not do anything but there we some small recent updates (last 2 days -lib files I think, and I did not install new apps, repositories nor change configurations) and probably these change it?

Thanks everyone for looking into this.
Cheers.

You never said whether your running 1, 2, or Cauldron.

I did see from time to time "Reconfiguration requests by administrator" in Cauldron but never in 1 or 2.

Mageia 2, KDE, 64 bits 3.3.6-desktop-2.mga2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64,
Cauldron? don't know, will find out more.

But I do boot directly using grub2 (v2.00 b1), not chainload; but I'm fairly sure this has no bearing on this issue.
(oh, had tried chainload too, one time in the past, start times were slow too).
But as I said, issue has improved.
And Thanks.

gohlip wrote:Mageia 2, KDE, 64 bits 3.3.6-desktop-2.mga2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64,
Cauldron? don't know, will find out more.

But I do boot directly using grub2 (v2.00 b1), not chainload; but I'm fairly sure this has no bearing on this issue.
(oh, had tried chainload too, one time in the past, start times were slow too)..

Correct, the problem when it happens happens after the boot loader has done it's job.

Ah.......Ken, since we (me too) are interested to find out (even though it is no longer an issue) what might be the cause.....

I changed user uid so I can sync with my other distro's (Kubuntu, Chakra, Bodhi and ..no, the rest are not sync'ed - one data partition for everything, one config partition which sync'ed apps, but never .kde (version diff is disastrous and individual sync'ing within .kde is too much work))

I tried changing my user uid from 500 to 1000, seems okay initially, but data movements seems 'erratic', so I added new user with uid 1000 instead, made that default and tried to rename by exchanging the names (rather, rehash - hey, my name is important ), seems better, but still has that 'buggy' effect - So I rehashed back.

Could this be it?

Since the error (?) happens after the bootloader and before user loggin it would seem it has nothing with either.

Ken-Bergen wrote:Since the error (?) happens after the bootloader and before user loggin it would seem it has nothing with either.

Okay then. Mageia works in mysterious ways. Alright in case sensitivities are threatened , magical....
Cheers.

FWIW, to clear up the mistery around those requests a bit, they originate from a service which starts at every boot:

systemctl status mandriva-everytime.service
mandriva-everytime.service - Reconfigure the system on administrator request
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/mandriva-everytime.service; static)
Active: active (exited) since Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:50:26 +0200; 1 day and 23h ago
Main PID: 616 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/mandriva-everytime.service

This also starts harddrake2 which searches for new hardware, actual script which does all that is /etc/init.d/mandrake_everytime