[Bug 1007609] Re: Xubuntu doesn't finish boot-process until Return-Button is pushed.

Sun Jul 15 16:58:12 UTC 2012

> I have some good news: The problem was caused by Plymouth. I
> simply deinstalled it & everything works fine!!!

Ok, first of all you cannot "simply" deinstall plymouth; this is a core
package and the dependencies deliberately prevent its removal from the
system.  If you have actually removed plymouth, what you have left is no
longer an Ubuntu system, so the fact that it boots for you then is
immaterial to solving this bug.

Second, there is no reason that plymouth itself would be waiting for a
keypress before bringing up the login screen, and no one is reporting
this issue with other flavors of Ubuntu (indeed, AFAICS no one else is
reporting it at all).  So I don't believe this is a plymouth bug.  It
may be a bug in some Xubuntu-specific component, or it may be a bug in
something that you've installed locally which is somehow stalling the
console waiting for input.

Reassigning to xubuntu-meta.

** Package changed: plymouth (Ubuntu) => xubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)

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Title:
  Xubuntu doesn't finish boot-process until Return-Button is pushed.

Status in “xubuntu-meta” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Good evening,
  since about a week Xubuntu doesn't finish the boot process, until I push the Return-Button. When I select Xubuntu 12.04 in Grub, after some time the Xubuntu-Logo appears with a bar moving from left to right and back. I can only exit this state by pushing Return (Space seems to work also), then the normal surface for logging in appears.
  I think that this behaviour started after installing some games from the Ubuntu-Software-Center. Here are some syslogs:
  -----------
  May 28 08:43:32 klangbiotop NetworkManager 931: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IPv6 Configure Timeout) complete.
  May 28 08:43:33 klangbiotop ntpdate 1140 : step time server 91.189.94.4 offset -0.635392 sec
  May 28 08:45:30 klangbiotop cron 1175 : (CRON) INFO (pidfile fd = 3)
  May 28 08:45:30 klangbiotop acpid: starting up with proc fs
  ----------
  May 28 08:45:30 klangbiotop anacron 1193 : Will run job 'cron.daily' in 5 min.
  May 28 08:45:30 klangbiotop anacron 1193 : Jobs will be executed sequentially
  May 28 08:46:14 klangbiotop dbus 911 : [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit' (using servicehelper)
  May 28 08:46:14 klangbiotop acpid: client connected from 1294[0:0]
  -----------
  Jun  1 19:22:24 klangbiotop NetworkManager[898]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IPv6 Configure Timeout) complete.
  Jun  1 19:22:37 klangbiotop ntpdate[1105]: step time server 91.189.94.4 offset -5.170230 sec
  Jun  1 19:24:08 klangbiotop cron[1139]: (CRON) INFO (pidfile fd = 3)
  Jun  1 19:24:08 klangbiotop anacron[1163]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2012-06-01
  ---------
  Jun  1 19:40:28 klangbiotop NetworkManager[1065]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 5 of 5 (IPv4 Commit) complete.
  Jun  1 19:40:28 klangbiotop dbus[962]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' (using servicehelper)
  Jun  1 19:40:28 klangbiotop dbus[962]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher'
  Jun  1 19:40:37 klangbiotop kernel: [   25.144006] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
  Jun  1 19:40:41 klangbiotop ntpdate[1200]: adjust time server 131.188.3.221 offset 0.027561 sec
  Jun  1 19:40:41 klangbiotop ntpd[1227]: ntpd 4.2.6p3 at 1.2290 Tue Mar  6 15:36:36 UTC 2012 (1)
  ----------
  Jun  1 22:18:01 klangbiotop NetworkManager[939]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IPv6 Configure Timeout) started...
  Jun  1 22:18:01 klangbiotop NetworkManager[939]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IPv6 Configure Timeout) complete.
  Jun  1 22:20:03 klangbiotop anacron[1258]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2012-06-01
  Jun  1 22:20:03 klangbiotop acpid: starting up with proc fs
  ---------
  You can see the time-gaps when I waited for Xubuntu to switch to the log-on-window. Onetime I waited for more than half an hour (I can send more logs if necessary). I tried to fix this issue with Boot-Repair, but without success. I'm not really sure if Cron is the problem...
  Have a nice evening,
  Markus

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: cron 3.0pl1-120ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.39-generic 3.2.16
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Jun  1 22:47:37 2012
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: cron
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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