slow start up Ubuntu 14.04

[Gary J. Kirkpatrick]

On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Gary J. Kirkpatrick
<garyartista at gmail.com>wrote:

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> 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.
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>>>>     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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>>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Thanks everyone for your thoughts and suggestions to date.
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
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>> garyk
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> Decided to do a clean install today.
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> garyk
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Install was very fast, maybe 15 minutes, and this cut the start time in
half.  It is no longer sluggish once running.  Not sure what the problem
was but with so many versions of 14.04 starting in January something was
bound to get messed up.  Clean installs are almost always the best.

Thanks again-  now to doing the other things that I need to do with the
system.


garyk

PS not sure to mark this as solved or not.
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