troubleshooting long startup times

[keithclark1966 at rogers.com]

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From: Luis Mondesi <lemsx1 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 1:09:37 AM
Subject: Re: troubleshooting long startup times

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

----- Original Message ----

From: Luis Mondesi <lemsx1 at gmail.com>
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <
ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 12:51:53 AM
Subject: Re: troubleshooting long startup times



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



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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Luis Mondesi
Maestro Debiano


Thanks.  I made the changes perfect and all is well now.

Keith


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