Edgy 2.6.10 taking tens of minutes to boot up

[David Restall - System Administrator]

Hi Nigel

> I'm writing this on another machine whilst waiting for Edgy to boot up

Snip...

> this causing problems? Is there anything I can insert at the GRUB prompt
> to let the machine know that that is handling the graphics? Anyway,
> why should I have to!?! Surely, that's the job of /etc/X11/xorg.conf!!

Are you sure it's X that's causing the problem.  Edit the boot command
and turn quiet off so you can see all the boot messages and see where it
pauses.

You should have a line like :-

kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-28-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet

remove the quiet and boot the machine.  When it boots you will see lots
of diagnostic messages.  At some point it will pause and you will get an
idea of why its pausing - hopefully - unless it is an xorg problem.

It's my pet hate with ubuntu, every time a kernel is upgraded, it
rewrites the grub config and turns quiet on, I haven't yet managed to
sort out how to change the default without some serious hacking.  Having
a noisy boot is preferable to a quiet one IMHO.

> > My work around is never to turn off my machine - unless I'm away on
> > holiday - which I have been for the last week.

Holiday ? whats all that about then - is it some new software package ;-)

> Can anyone tell me what is actually happening here?

You may also see something in /var/log/Xorg.0.log*.

Regards,



Dave
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