Dropping into text mode during boot

[Chris G]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 09:24:14PM +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I noticed the other day that one of my machines, running Jaunty
> standard install and all up to date, is dropping into text mode during
> boot.  It starts ok with the oscillating yellow blob on the orange
> line but then drops into text mode, with the first line showing "*
> Reading files needed to boot".  It carries on showing loads of stuff
> then displays the graphical login screen and behaves perfectly
> thereafter.  I don't remember doing anything other than routine
> updates.
> 
> I have googled and found nothing that seemed to correspond to my
> problem (I did find a suggestion that this could happen if the swap
> partition uuid was not the same in fstab and initramfs resume file,
> but I have checked and these are ok).
> 
> I have looked in various log files but cannot see anything untoward,
> but to be honest I am not sure what I am looking for (or where I
> should look for that matter).
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated.
> 
Doesn't this happen when something takes a longer time than normal,
with the intent of showing you what is delaying the boot.

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Chris Green