[Bug 1893952] Re: Repeated apport failures causing long boot delays

Tue Sep 8 16:35:00 UTC 2020

@Daniel:

Thanks again for those commands . . . I didn't know if removing the
whole crash directory was the way to remove those files . . . .

So I ran that command, then I did the "apt update" . . . but then I ran
"apt -f install" . . . and that showed a bunch of things to add and
subtract . . . so I ran that through and then I did your "apt full-
upgrade" . . . and then "sudo reboot" . . . and reboot took it's time.

But on restart it was faster to the log in window . . . still got the
"clang-a-lang" sound when it loaded, but logging in went "OK" . . . not
the zippiest, but acceptable . . . and no universal error red dot
symbol!!!  So that is more or less OK . . . I probably won't need to re-
install . . . I have enough linux distros that I don't need stone axe
reliability, but I do prefer systems that "work" when clicking on stuff
. . . not taking 60 seconds to reboot from console, etc.

For now I think we have "solved" the complaint in this bug report . . .
however, I have another bug report filed on U-MATE && Lubuntu 20.10 and
that bug happened again while running through the "apt full-upgrade"
commands suggested to fix the slow boot issues of this bug . . . and
that is that ubuntu seems to be wiping the EFI grub data . . . leaving
only itself on the grub listing . . . .  It's a pain to have to use the
SG2 disk to boot over into OpenSUSE to fix a problem that ubuntu seems
to be causing . . . devs don't seem to be able to address that issue,
which has been going on for months and effects a fair number of people .
. . .  If you have any experience in the grub area and can offer some
suggestions that would be helpful . . . .  I can't believe it happened
yet again today in spite of my looking through the packages and not
seeing "grub-xxxx" as it has been in the recent events with this problem
. . . .  Ubuntu does not seem to be playing well with others . . . for
might be the last 9 -12 months??

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1894242

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Title:
  Repeated apport failures causing long boot delays

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Full log in comment #4.

  Been having problems with my installation of 20.10 U-MATE . . .
  reported here earlier to little fanfare . . . but the issues with very
  slow boot times, and then when finally arriving at GUI log in window,
  the log in "tray" is positioned upper left corner of the display and
  it's like a TTY, where it wants user name and then password.  I think
  today it literally took 5 minutes to get logged into the GUI . . . .

  As reported previously I have an install of Lu 20.10 in the same drive
  . . . so far is not having the same problems that U-MATE is having . .
  . .

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10
  Package: xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu14
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-42.46-generic 5.4.44
  Uname: Linux 5.4.0-42-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu45
  Architecture: amd64
  BootLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/boot.log'
  CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
  CompositorRunning: None
  CurrentDesktop: MATE
  Date: Wed Sep  2 07:28:33 2020
  DistUpgraded: Fresh install
  DistroCodename: groovy
  DistroVariant: ubuntu
  DkmsStatus: broadcom-sta, 6.30.223.271, 5.4.0-42-generic, x86_64: installed
  DpkgLog:

  ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical
  GraphicsCard:
   NVIDIA Corporation GK110 [GeForce GTX 780] [10de:1004] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
     Subsystem: eVga.com. Corp. GK110 [GeForce GTX 780] [3842:0781]
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-01-20 (226 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Alpha amd64 (20200119)
  MachineType: Apple Inc. MacPro5,1
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-42-generic root=UUID=e795b2e6-5bef-4a6e-9217-539a6debda90 ro quiet splash
  SourcePackage: xorg
  Symptom: display
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 07/30/2018
  dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: 138.0.0.0.0
  dmi.board.asset.tag: 0
  dmi.board.name: Mac-F221BEC8
  dmi.board.vendor: Apple Inc.
  dmi.chassis.type: 7
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Inc.
  dmi.chassis.version: Mac-F221BEC8
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAppleInc.:bvr138.0.0.0.0:bd07/30/2018:svnAppleInc.:pnMacPro5,1:pvr0.0:rvnAppleInc.:rnMac-F221BEC8:rvr:cvnAppleInc.:ct7:cvrMac-F221BEC8:
  dmi.product.family: MacPro
  dmi.product.name: MacPro5,1
  dmi.product.sku: System SKU#
  dmi.product.version: 0.0
  dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Inc.
  version.compiz: compiz N/A
  version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.102-1ubuntu1
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 20.1.5-1
  version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx N/A
  version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.20.8-2ubuntu4
  version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A
  version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:19.1.0-1ubuntu1
  version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20200714-1
  version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.16-1

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