slow start up Ubuntu 14.04

[Gary J. Kirkpatrick]

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 7:33 AM, Gary J. Kirkpatrick
<garyartista at gmail.com>wrote:

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> snip..
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> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 1:29 AM, AFJ Headquarters <agents4jesus at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>  Have you been able to run a live USB? That might show that your hard
>> drive is bad if the USB works fine.
>>
>>     My family had a similar problem when we upgraded our iMac. Mac OS X
>> 10.7.9 worked fine, and we upgraded to 10.9.1. Then we suddenly got a ton
>> of problems. Essentially, our Hard Drive was bad and once we got a new one,
>> everything became awesome! The moral is: Hard Drives go bad and yours might
>> have, too.
>>
>>
>> Tony
>>
>>
>> On 05/19/2014 10:14 PM, Gary J. Kirkpatrick wrote:
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>> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 1:31 AM, AFJ Headquarters <agents4jesus at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>  Hey,
>>>
>>> What are your computer's specs? If your computer is just slow, another
>>> version of 'buntu might help.
>>> I suggest running Xubuntu, or Lubuntu.
>>> In the Terminal, type:
>>>
>>> sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
>>>
>>> or
>>>
>>> sudo apt-get install lubuntu-desktop
>>>
>>> for Xubuntu or Lubuntu, respectively. You will have to log out.
>>>
>>> When you want to test the Xubuntu (or Lubuntu) you will have to click
>>> the little Ubuntu symbol on your log-in box. Select the desktop you want to
>>> use and log in.
>>>
>>>
>>> If that doesn't help, try running Ubuntu on a live USB (not CD or DVD),
>>> and see if it's any faster, if it is, then you probably need a new hard
>>> drive. Careful! If your USB speed excels your SATA speed, (eg. a 3.0 verses
>>> an old HD) then this test won't mean much.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps!
>>>
>>> Tony Psmythe
>>>
>>>
>>  It was running great on 13.10 and 14.04 on first install back in
>> January or February.
>>
>>  garyk
>>
>>
>>  Replying to a number of suggestions:
> 1) I thought to check the hard drive speed following instructions at
> http://www.upubuntu.com/2011/07/how-to-test-read-speed-of-your-hard.html
>
> /dev/sdb1: Timing buffered disk reads:  34 MB in  3.05 seconds =  11.16
> MB/sec
> /dev/sdb2:  Timing buffered disk reads: read(2097152) returned 1024 bytes
> /dev/sdb3: Timing buffered disk reads:  38 MB in  3.06 seconds =  12.44
> MB/sec
> /dev/sdb5:  Timing buffered disk reads:  30 MB in  3.19 seconds =   9.39
> MB/sec
>
> The reading for usb flash drive 2.0:   Timing buffered disk reads:  50 MB
> in  3.03 seconds =  16.49 MB/sec
>
> I plugged the hard drive into another usb port and it made no difference.
>
> 2) I ran a hard drive test for 2 hours and I got no errors.  Used GS
> smartcontrol.
>
> 3) Sysem profiler and benchmark says the Toshiba is connected to a USB 3.0
> port.
>
> 4) Using pv hdparm I got these read/write test results
>
> gary14 at gary14:~$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test.data bs=1k count=128k
> 131072+0 records in
> 131072+0 records out
> 134217728 bytes (134 MB) copied, 0,748769 s, 179 M
>
> 5)  I disabled ureadahead.   Per the boot chart is saves about 40 seconds.
>  But still a total of 2 min 45 secs from selecting Ubuntu to being able to
> run a program.
>
> I think it might be wise to just reinstall but I will leave this for a few
> days from now in case anyone has a brain storm.
>
> Thanks everyone for your thoughts and suggestions to date.
>
>
> garyk
>
>

The external harddrive is a Toshiba usb 2.0.  No doubt this accounts for
some of the speed issues but again it was booting and running much faster
13.10- early versions of 14.04

garyk
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