slow start up Ubuntu 14.04

[Cobin Bluth]

After reading all the symptoms, my thoughts tell me that your hard drive
may be failing. Have you tested your hdd already?
Try "sudo badblocks /dev/sdX" and/or "sudo hdparm -v /dev/sdX" after
booting from live USB.
 On May 18, 2014 12:08 AM, "Gary J. Kirkpatrick" <garyartista at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 17 May 2014 06:51, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > It is taking over 2 1/2 minutes to boot Ubuntu 14.04.  13.10 was around
>> a
>> > minute on the same computer-  maybe a little less.  Nothing in startup
>> > applications seems to be the cause.
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>> Does the fact that you mention startup applications mean that you are
>> including the time to login?  If so you should first disable
>> auto-login in order to see whether it is the boot that is slow or the
>> login.
>>
>> Colin
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> It is after the login that things really slow down.  To get to the login
> takes 30 secs, a bit slow.
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> I ran bootchart.  it seems the only way to retrieve the file it creates is
> to open nautilus as root, gksudo nautilus.  Not sure what to make of the
> file and not sure how to upload it.  I can save a copy but can not see it
> unless running gksudo as root owns it.
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> garyl
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