slow start up Ubuntu 14.04

[Colin Law]

On 18 May 2014 16:22, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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>> hi,
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>> > This is an external hard drive.  The internal failed.
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>> was the faster 13.10 installation on the same drive ?
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>> how is this external disk attached ? (eSATA, USB 2.0,  USB 3.0,
>> thunderbolt, firewire  ...) ?
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>> ciao
>>         oli
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>> --
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> The same drive had 13.10 on it.  it is connected via usb 3.0.
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> Oh, I did not realize you could click on 'computer' to see system files,
> that's why I ran gksudo.
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> Anyway the bootlog file shows 80 seconds.  I think that is just from login
> on, judging by how long booting from scratch actually takes.

I think it is the time to boot, which is the time *to* the login
screen, or to the start of the login operation if you have autologin
enabled.  I did suggest that you switch off autologin in order to see
whether it is the boot or the login that is taking the time.

Colin