[xubuntu-users] X-Ubuntu Experience [boot and wake]

[Victor Forberger]

On 08/12/2015 07:49 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 19:10:39 +0530
> V Narayanan <vn1980ca at outlook.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> Negative Points:
>> a) Slow Boot and Shutdown Time
> 
> How often do you boot? If you shut down every night (probably to save
> power), and boot up every morning, and each takes one minute, it hardly
> impacts your productivity at all. Just shut down and walk away at
> night, and in the morning, power on and go get a cup of coffee or tea,
> and by the time you come back, it's booted up.
> 
> SteveT
> 
> Steve Litt 
> August 2015 featured book: Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/tjust
> 

Xubuntu booting was wicked fast with version 10.04 or 10.10 (or
somewhere around then).  Much faster than previous versions, as a big
effort was made back then to speed up booting.  I think it slowed down
with 12.04 and has been getting slower since. I agree that with 15.04
boot times are S L O W.

The desktop computer never shuts down, however, so I rarely have to deal
with the slow boot times (my desktop is also my file server via AeroFS).

The computer does not sleep either.  Before it was a file server, I did
put it it to sleep regularly, especially the monitor.  I'm not sure what
was the cause, but with 14.04 monitor wake froze the system for a minute
or two and would occasionally need a reboot (the problem started with
13.10 but got much worse with 14.04). That problem was fixed with 14.10.
Now in 15.04, monitor wake leads to 8-10 seconds of heavy CPU (but no
display freeze) and then the desktop is good to go.

NOTE: I switched to lightlocker from Xscreensaver (and removed
Xscreensaver) in 14.04 in an effort to correct the monitor wake problem.
That was no help.  A look at various log files in /var/log/ (e.g.,
syslog, kern, Xorg) did not indicate what the problem was either as far
as I could tell.

At some point when I have the time, I will do a review of xubuntu and
provide some additional details about this issue.

For my setup, see http://linuxatty.wordpress.com/thesetup/.

take care,
Vic

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Victor Forberger
vforberger at fastmail.fm
blog: http://linuxatty.wordpress.com



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