Slow boot of ubuntu Hardy -- X stuck waiting for something - X
This is a discussion on Slow boot of ubuntu Hardy -- X stuck waiting for something - X ; About a week or so ago, my laptop running Hardy, started having an
unexplainable 30 second or so delay during boot.
I have it set to automatically log me in without asking for
password. That is secure, since I have ...
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Slow boot of ubuntu Hardy -- X stuck waiting for something
About a week or so ago, my laptop running Hardy, started having an
unexplainable 30 second or so delay during boot.
I have it set to automatically log me in without asking for
password. That is secure, since I have the entire disk protected by
LUKS AES encryption and I enter a password early during boot to unlock
the disk.
Anyway, the system boots promptly, up to the point of switching into
my account and showing an arrow mouse pointer (instead of a round
pointer indicating "wait").
At that point, it is stuck -- not frozen but not showing anything
usable -- for about 30 seconds. The mouse moves, the computer is
totally responsive, I can ssh to it during this time, but the screen
is black with the only exception of the mouse pointer.
My own hypothesis is that X is waiting on some part of the boot
process to finish before proceeding with giving me a valid session. I
have a few services that are not always installed on a laptop, such as
ntpd, apache and mysql and maybe something else.
i
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Re: Slow boot of ubuntu Hardy -- X stuck waiting for something
Ignoramus12441 wrote:
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> My own hypothesis is that X is waiting on some part of the boot
> process to finish before proceeding with giving me a valid session. I
> have a few services that are not always installed on a laptop, such as
> ntpd, apache and mysql and maybe something else.
>
> i
Let's assume your hypothesis is correct.
Then you might want to try setting 'CONCURRENCY=shell' in your
/etc/init.d/rc
this tells upstart to start scripts that do not end in '.sh' in a
parallel fashion. So even IF some service is delaying the whole lot, it
should be waiting in the background while the rest continues.
Ofcourse, this does not apply if the evil script should end in '.sh'.
(do not try to rename it, if it's the case, because '.sh' scripts handle
their exit stuff differently.)
-R-
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Re: Slow boot of ubuntu Hardy -- X stuck waiting for something
On 2008-04-21, Jurgen Haan wrote:
> Ignoramus12441 wrote:
>>
>> My own hypothesis is that X is waiting on some part of the boot
>> process to finish before proceeding with giving me a valid session. I
>> have a few services that are not always installed on a laptop, such as
>> ntpd, apache and mysql and maybe something else.
>>
>> i
>
>
> Let's assume your hypothesis is correct.
It is not, as I find out. Even if I wait 5 minutes until logging in,
it is still takes about 1 minutes with a black screen and mouse
pointer, before my screen loads.
i
> Then you might want to try setting 'CONCURRENCY=shell' in your
> /etc/init.d/rc
>
> this tells upstart to start scripts that do not end in '.sh' in a
> parallel fashion. So even IF some service is delaying the whole lot, it
> should be waiting in the background while the rest continues.
>
> Ofcourse, this does not apply if the evil script should end in '.sh'.
> (do not try to rename it, if it's the case, because '.sh' scripts handle
> their exit stuff differently.)
>
> -R-
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Re: Slow boot of ubuntu Hardy -- X stuck waiting for something
Ignoramus4289 wrote:
> On 2008-04-21, Jurgen Haan wrote:
Ah.. well then, at the risk of going off-topic: you can still use the
described technique to speed up booting.
>>> i
>>
>> Let's assume your hypothesis is correct.
>
> It is not, as I find out. Even if I wait 5 minutes until logging in,
> it is still takes about 1 minutes with a black screen and mouse
> pointer, before my screen loads.
>
> i
