A little followup. I found the following<div>article, from December, 2008:</div><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://my.opera.com/PiklesOnFire/blog/index.dml/tag/hpet=disable">http://my.opera.com/PiklesOnFire/blog/index.dml/tag/hpet=disable</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://my.opera.com/PiklesOnFire/blog/index.dml/tag/hpet=disable"></a>Based on Ubuntu Intrepid, the author blames </div><div>hpet, at least in part, for the error message I </div><div>see too. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Alas, the file alluded to, /boot/grub/menu.lst,</div><div>doesn't exist on my system, Kubuntu 11.04.</div><div>Or anywhere else that I can tell. I did string</div><div>searches for hpet, and only found it referenced</div>
<div>once in /etc/bash_completion/qemu, where the</div><div>option is "-no-pet".</div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, the saga continues. A quick google</div><div>search shows that you're having issues with</div>
<div>hpet it's a huge annoyance, and if you're not,</div><div>hpet will likely be off the radar screen. What</div><div>I haven't seen is what hpet is even for, and </div><div>why it starts to become a problem. My system</div>
<div>will run stably until the next power flicker, but</div><div>when I have to boot, about have the time I</div><div>have that 10 to 12 minute wait while something</div><div>goes on.</div><div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Bob Kline <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Often during a boot up, or reboot, I'll<div>see the output hang at a statement saying:</div><div><br></div><div>CE: hpet increased min_delta_ns to 20112 nsec</div><div><br></div><div>Things will then just sit there for 10 to 12 </div>
<div>minutes, and then go on their way.</div><div><br></div><div>I looked in /etc/ for hpet, and only found</div><div>one reference, in /etc/bash_completion.d/qemu</div><div><br></div><div>It's one of endless options to a function</div>
<div>called compgen, and is "-no-hpet".</div><div><br></div><div>No idea what any of this is saying. Can </div><div>anyone provide any hints?</div><div><br></div><div>I'm running Kubuntu 11.04. I have read</div>
<div>some discussions that say this is something</div><div>of a known issue. </div><div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div> -- Bob</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
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