Can't Boot after latest Feisty Upgrade

Fri Apr 13 22:58:35 UTC 2007

I have just about come to the conclusion that I'm not smart enough to
use Linux as the OS on my system.

I have a very fundamental question about the suggestions that I have
been receiving.  When do I need to go through the update process again?
For example, when I edit the /etc/network/interfaces, do I need to do go
through the update process again before I reboot to check out the
results of the edits that I made.  It's not clear to me if editing a
data file (e.g. /etc/network/interfaces) effects the boot process of
whatever kernel I boot, or, do I have to edit the data file and also
build a new kernel after editing for the changes to take effect?

I have included below, the messages in the dmesg log that show the
delays I reported.  I have included several messages before and after
each large increment in the time field.  These are extracts from the
log.  I would be happy to provide the entire log, but, it is 7 pages
long.  Can you include attachments in emails to this list?

Thanks,
John

[    0.000000] If you got timer trouble try acpi_use_timer_override
[    0.000000] Nvidia board detected. Ignoring ACPI timer override.
[    0.000000] If you got timer trouble try acpi_use_timer_override
[    0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 30000000 (gap:
20000000:dec00000)
[    0.000000] Detected 2079.590 MHz processor.
[   20.278415] Built 1 zonelists.  Total pages: 130033
[   20.278418] Kernel command line:
root=UUID=e7527156-aa96-4a40-a196-a2282a2f7f5c ro quiet splash
[   20.278574] Found and enabled local APIC!
[   20.278577] mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
[   20.278580] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
[   20.278582] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
[   20.278592] Initializing CPU#0

[   25.126842] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and
address 3
[   25.359792] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   25.462838] ata2.00: ATAPI, max UDMA/33
[   25.462842] ata2.01: ATAPI, max MWDMA2
[   55.438931] ata2.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xef)
[   55.438939] ata2.00: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4)
[   55.438944] ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
[   90.898976] ata2.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xef)
[   90.898982] ata2.00: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4)
[   90.898988] ata2.00: limiting speed to UDMA/33:PIO3
[   90.898990] ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
[  126.359024] ata2.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xef)
[  126.359030] ata2.00: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x4)
[  126.359034] ata2.00: disabled
[  126.359036] ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
[  131.359086] ata2.01: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x40)
[  131.359090] ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
[  136.843003] ata2.01: configured for MWDMA2
[  136.843133] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      ST3120026A
3.06 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[  136.843510] scsi 0:0:1:0: Direct-Access     ATA      WDC WD600BB-32BS
12.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[  136.844084] scsi 1:0:1:0: CD-ROM            CREATIVE  CD5233E
2.05 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[  136.863844] SCSI device sda: 234441648 512-byte hdwr sectors (120034
MB)
[  136.863877] sda: Write Protect is off

[  137.136390] Attempting manual resume
[  137.136394] swsusp: Resume From Partition 8:5
[  137.136396] PM: Checking swsusp image.
[  137.136696] PM: Resume from disk failed.
[  137.177394] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[  137.177406] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[  148.953374] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[  149.243476] Linux agpgart interface v0.102 (c) Dave Jones
[  149.405834] agpgart: Detected NVIDIA nForce2 chipset
[  149.410053] agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe8000000
[  149.462690] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[  149.474611] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version:
0.4
[  149.493304] i2c_adapter i2c-0: nForce2 SMBus adapter at 0x5000
[  149.493340] i2c_adapter i2c-1: nForce2 SMBus adapter at 0x5100

[  153.017395] powernow_k7: Unknown symbol
acpi_processor_register_performance
[  153.049978] acpi_cpufreq: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_notify_smm
[  153.050015] acpi_cpufreq: Unknown symbol
acpi_processor_unregister_performance
[  153.050102] acpi_cpufreq: Unknown symbol
acpi_processor_preregister_performance
[  153.050146] acpi_cpufreq: Unknown symbol
acpi_processor_register_performance
[  158.157676] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[  159.128850] apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
[  159.659835] Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir at monad.swb.de).
[  160.027055] NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state
recovery directory
[  160.144358] NFSD: starting 90-second grace period
[  163.620477] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.11
[  163.620550] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[  163.620553] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[  163.620557] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[  163.663710] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8
[  163.663715] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[  163.757534] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[  163.757549] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[  163.757552] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8
[  174.596896] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[18038.611389] eth0: no IPv6 routers present

On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 16:09 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> On 04/11/2007 02:23 PM, John Graddy wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 15:21 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> > 
> >> 
> >> Can you post your /var/log/boot and also your /etc/network/interfaces
> >> files (feel free to modify the IP's of the last slightly).
> >> 
> >> 
> > The files you asked for follow later in this post.
> > 
> > The /var/log/boot file is strange in that it has only entries for Feb.
> > 14.  Did you intend to ask for /var/log/bootstrap?  That one has a lot
> > of entries about pre-dependency problems.
> 
> I was hoping for a current one. Mine is updated on each boot & to be
> honest I can't remember how I turned it on.
> 
> > 
> > I have also examined the Dmesg log at Peter Garrett's suggestion and
> > have found some strange (at least strange to me) happenings.  I have
> > identified 2 minutes and 18 seconds of unexplained delays. 
> 
> Can you post those delays?
> > 
> > The files that you wanted to sww follow:
> 
> Do you have all of those interfaces? If not, I would suggest that you
> edit to only one interface right now. During boot the system will look
> for each one & can cause significate delay if it doesn't find each one.
> Eventually it will time out & move one to the next.
> 
> > 
> > /etc/network/interfaces
> > 
> > 
> > auto lo 
> > 
> > iface lo inet loopback 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > iface eth0 inet dhcp 
> > 
> > 
> > auto eth1 
> > 
> > iface eth1 inet dhcp 
> > 
> > 
> > auto eth2 
> > 
> > iface eth2 inet dhcp 
> > 
> > 
> > auto ath0 
> > 
> > iface ath0 inet dhcp 
> > 
> > 
> > auto wlan0 
> > 
> > iface wlan0 inet dhcp 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > iface ppp0 inet ppp 
> > 
> > provider ppp0 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> Ref:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/102675
> 
> You might also want to look through some of these:
> <http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=+site:bugs.launchpad.net+feisty+%2Blong+boot+%2Brecent+update>
> 
> 