slow start up Ubuntu 14.04

[Gary J. Kirkpatrick]

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Gary J. Kirkpatrick
<garyartista at gmail.com>wrote:

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> 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:
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>>>  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.
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>>>
>>> Tony
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>>> 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:
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>>>>  Hey,
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>>>> 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:
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>>>> sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
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>>>> or
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>>>> sudo apt-get install lubuntu-desktop
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>>>> 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.
>>>>
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>>>> 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
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>>>  It was running great on 13.10 and 14.04 on first install back in
>>> January or February.
>>>
>>>  garyk
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>>>  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
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>> /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
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>> The reading for usb flash drive 2.0:   Timing buffered disk reads:  50 MB
>> in  3.03 seconds =  16.49 MB/sec
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>> I plugged the hard drive into another usb port and it made no difference.
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>> 2) I ran a hard drive test for 2 hours and I got no errors.  Used GS
>> smartcontrol.
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>> 3) Sysem profiler and benchmark says the Toshiba is connected to a USB
>> 3.0 port.
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>> 4) Using pv hdparm I got these read/write test results
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>> 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
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Thanks everyone for your thoughts and suggestions to date.
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>>
>> garyk
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> 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
>



Decided to do a clean install today.

garyk
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