Slow boot, how do I configure for nosity boot?

Sat Nov 23 09:49:12 UTC 2019

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, 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
>>>
>>> ....................................................
>>>
>>
>> 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.
>

Okay.

Now, I must correct myself, significantly, and, I apologise, signigificantly.

It occurred to me, today, and, I have checked and found to be the
case, that I had installed 19.10, previously, on the computer, and,
forgotten about it, and, the 750-odd MB of updates, applied to the
19.10 installation on the computer, which I apparently, haven't run
since installation.

This is on a "laptop" computer (why they are still named thaat, I do
not know, as they are seldom used on laptops - mostly used on
desktops, but, convenient for their greater portability, than
"desktop" computers, which have been portable, since the first "PC"),
running an external monitor.

Unfortunately, with the multiple (MS Win8, which was on the computer,
when I bought it, UbuntuMATE 16.04, and, UbuntuMATE 19.10) operating
systems, the GRUB menu and the rest of the computer startup output,
does not display on the external monitor, until an operating system
GUI is operational; displaying, as the first thing, on the external
screen, the GUI login screen, and, so, without raising the lowered
"laptop" screen, to vertical, to monitor the computer boot process,
after the default period, the computer automatically booted into
19.10.

My fault, and, I am sorry for my last two previous posts, which are
now shown to be completely wrong (in terms of what happened with the
update), and, now, those two posts should be disregarded, for the
trash that they are.

'Plurry iriot!"

-- 
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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