troubleshooting long startup times

[Luis Mondesi]

On Jan 12, 2008 12:59 AM, <keithclark1966 at rogers.com> wrote:

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> From: Luis Mondesi <lemsx1 at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 12:51:53 AM
> Subject: Re: troubleshooting long startup times
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> On Jan 12, 2008 12:47 AM, Keith Clark <keithclark1966 at rogers.com> wrote:
>
> > How can I start Ubuntu 7.10 in verbose mode so that I can see what is
> > taking so long to boot up?
> >
>
> at the "grub" menu prompt type "ESC" then highlight the kernel you want to
> boot from and type "e"
>
> in "editing" mode remove "splash" and "quiet" from the line
>
> hit "ENTER" on your keyboard
>
> type "b" to "boot"
>
> if you want to make this permanent, edit /boot/grub/menu.lst (for Grub1,
> which is the default  at this moment)
>
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> Luis Mondesi
> Maestro Debiano
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>
> Thanks!  This worked perfectly.
>
> My system booted within 30 seconds this way, the default way takes about 4
> to 5 minutes.  I have no idea why this would be.  Any thoughts?
>
> Keith
>

there was a thread about this a few days ago. go to the list archives (
http://lists.ubuntu.com).

i think it's something to do with usplash doing infinite loops on some
hardware.

the same thing happened to us on Splashy with libdirectfb, but this has
since been fixed (http://splashy.alioth.debian.org/wiki/faq) thanks to the
people at RPath Linux.

yep. my opinion in this matter is biased, as I'm the main developer for
Splashy :-D
(if you want to know how they relate, read the history at
http://splashy.alioth.debian.org/wiki/history)


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