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, 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)
>

And, I have just found that, in the trojan horse version upgrade, it
dissociated my home partition, and, created a new home directory
within the / partition.


-- 
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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