Can't Boot after latest Feisty Upgrade

John Graddy jwgraddy at valornet.com
Sun Apr 15 13:15:28 UTC 2007


This morning's updates (April 15) apparently fixed this problem.  I
still don't understand the boot process and what the problems were, but,
that will probably always be the case.

There are still a couple of delays that show up in the dmesg log (one
about 20 seconds and another about 12 seconds), but I assume that those
are normal command processing times.  I may post them to see if someone
can tell if they are normal delays or if there is a problem.

In any case, Feisty with kernel 2.6.20-15.27 Generic now boots in
approximately 60 seconds.

Thanks for the help.

John


On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 19:49 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> On 04/13/2007 03:58 PM, John Graddy wrote:
> > I have just about come to the conclusion that I'm not smart enough to
> > use Linux as the OS on my system.
> 
> You are doing just fine. You can boot to 13 & the problem is 14 if I
> recall correctly. If you read the list you'll find all sorts of folks
> with problems at 14. In fact, I'd recommend that for the time being you
> stay at 13, let things settle down a bit in the 14 arena. Give it a few
> more days. I perhaps have an advantage in that I have 2 old systems that
> test on & don't mind if they get screwed up with all of the changes.
> Remember that Feisty is just now emerging from Alpha to Beta, so there
> are *going* to be lots of problems.
> 
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> No. But you will need to restart the service so that the changes can
> take place.
> 
> sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
> 
> > 
> > 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
> 
> There are others here that are much more capable at interpreting dmesg
> outputs than I, so I leave that part to them.
> 
> Gary
> 
> [gone sailing for the weekend :-)]
> 
> 
> > 
> > [    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>
> >> 
> >> 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 





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