[ubuntu-uk] Booting Up

[Phil Bull]

Hi Peter,

On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 13:03 +0100, peter wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 12:40 +0100, Keith Bowerman wrote:
> 
> > >From switch on to the drumbeat of the login screen has been taking 4
> > minutes 18 seconds, 
> 
> Hi Keith
> 
> It was me, I am taking the cowards way out, switching on the computer
> then making the tea!
> 
> I had this problem with a previous version, a previous upgrade cured it,
> but the last upgrade broke the previous one also (very strange).
> 
> It also rewrote my GRUB (which it must) could this give us a hint?
> 
> I must say I am just waiting for another upgrade to fix it.

Another good way of troubleshooting problems with boot times is to
install the 'bootchart' package using Synaptic (System -> Administration
-> Synaptic Package Manager).

When the system boots, bootchart will save a timeline of the boot
process in /var/log/bootchart, showing which programs are taking the
most time at boot.

Thanks,

Phil

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