Slow boot, how do I configure for nosity boot?

[Bret Busby]

On 22/11/2019, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22/11/2019, stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:
>> I have 18.04  on a couple of cheap laptops. This version does not work
>> well
>> with the wireless chipset, and audio on these machine, FYI 10.10 solves
>> all
>> these issues, BUT I don not want to go to it, as it will be easier to go
>> to
>> the next LTS FROM the previous LTS.
>>
>> These machine take *forever* to boot to an X login. How can I configure
>> to
>> watch the boot sequence  , so I can diagnose this issue?
>>
>> --
>> "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve
>> neither liberty nor safety."
>> 						-- Benjamin Franklin
>>
>
>
> I havve 19.10 (I think you meant 19.10, rather than 10.10?) running on
> this laptop; an i5 with 16GB RAM, and, I have 16.04.6 running on an i7
> laptop, with 32GB RAM, and, both are slow to boot.
>
> Oh, and the variant of Ubuntu, that I run, is UbuntuMATE.
>
> I think that the booting of Ubuntu, at present, is regarded as being
> slow, and, is expected to quicken, when 20.04 LTS is released. I
> accept correction if I am wrong in any of that understanding.
>
> From what I understand, upgrading from 19.10, to 20.04, should be as
> easy as upgrading from 18.04, to 20.04, but, once aagain, I accept
> correction, if my understanding is wrong.
>
> When 20.04 LTS is released, I am intending to then upgrade each of my
> systems to that; I realise that the 16.04 systems, will have to be
> upgraded to 18.04 LTS, before being upgraded to 20.04 LTS, but, I will
> leave that until 20.04 is released, so that I can hang on to the
> functionality of 16.04, that is lost by upgrading it to the versions
> from then to now, for as long as I can.
>
> --
> Bret Busby
> Armadale
> West Australia
> ..............
>
> "So once you do know what the question actually is,
>  you'll know what the answer means."
> - Deep Thought,
>  Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
>  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
>  A Trilogy In Four Parts",
>  written by Douglas Adams,
>  published by Pan Books, 1992
>
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>

I stand corrected.

My i7 system, with 32GB of RAM, has a session that froze a couple of
days ago, when I was composing an email in Thunderbird.

I figured it was a web site running javascript, that had an
"unresponsive script", that caused the system to freeze, as would
happen from time to time, and, after leaving it for a day or so, it
would usually unfreeze, with the "unresponsive script" error message
displayed in Firefox.

But, not this time. So, I turned off the power switch, as all
interrupts were disabled, and, left it for a while to cool, then
rebooted.

Upon rebooting, wwhen the booting had finished, I checked for updates.
It told me that there were about 750MB of updates to download,
including kernel images, so, I initiated the update.

I have just loaded midori to run, and, it looks like the crap latest
version, instead of the version 0.5.x , that ran well. It has no menu
bar, and, I can not get a menu bar. So, I checked, and, it is midori
v7, the same as on Ubuntu 19.10. Then, I looked at the panel, and, the
panel changed as a result of the update, with unknown icons, like on
my 19.10 systems. And, the mouseover functionality has gone, like in
my 19.10 systems.

Then, I thought - stuff this - what version of Ubuntu, is it running?

So, I used <CTRL><ALT><F1> to go out of the GUI, and into a console.

And, "Lo and behold", without my permission, and, without my
knowledge, the Software Updater had updated (very much against my
will) my 16.04.6 UbuntuMATE, to 119.10, in one foul swoop.

So, now, my i7 system, with 32GB of RAM, is not running 16.04.x , any
longer - it is now running 19.10.


So, I am corrected.

1. My i7 system with 32 GB of RAM, is not running 16.04.x, any longer
- it is now running 19.10 (against my will).

2. Version upgrading from 16.04 (on that system, anyway) apparently
does not need to go through 18.04 - it went directly from 16.04.6, to
19.10. (However, with that system having done what it did, with the
aunathorised upgrade, I would not recommend bypassing all of the
upgrades that are supposed to occur, in upgrading from 16.04)

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............

"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
 Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
 "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
 A Trilogy In Four Parts",
 written by Douglas Adams,
 published by Pan Books, 1992

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