20.04.1 - strange, one off, boot failure

[Colin Law]

On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 at 17:00, Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> When booting a lenovo T420, it spent about 17+ minutes showing the spinning Ubuntu logo. I did a hard shutdown and after that it booted OK.

Another thought, have you got auto logon enabled?  When I have had
hanging on boot it has more often been a login problem rather than a
boot problem.  It is always worth trying Ctrl-Alt-Del in these
circumstances.  That seems to abort the logon attempt if it is stuck.

Colin

>
> So I've edited /etc/default/grub from this...
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
> to this
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""
> and then ran sudo update-grub
>
> It boots slower, now - because it is now showing boot progress messages - but at least if it fails again I'll get a better idea of what is going on.
>
> HTH,
>
> Ian
>
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