slow start up Ubuntu 14.04

[Gary J. Kirkpatrick]

On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Cobin Bluth <cbluth at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> garyl
>>
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It's a external.  I will check it-  good idea.

I tried to install 1404 on another partition and could not make another
partition on the hard drive.  Currently there are two.  I have no idea if
this relates.


garyk
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