Sluggish bootup.

[Steven Vollom]

> Steven,
> I think something is wrong with your mail client. The bootchart.png
> that you sent was cuted, and showed only one little piece of the
> image.
> Try to send it again please.
>
> Cheers

After clicking on restart, this is what took place to get a screen again.

I clicked on restart at approximately 1:35 in the afternoon.  I waited with a 
black screen for 25 minutes to see if it would restart without help.  It 
wouldn't.  The reason for the delay is I decided to take a shower while I 
waited and didn't get back until 25 minutes to find the selfsame black screen 
prior to restart.

I held the off button until the system turned off.  I waited about 10 seconds 
then turned it on again.

Boot proceeded until the following was on the screen then paused:

[  1.504346] ACPI expecting a preference[ package element, found type 0.

I allowed it to sit with a blinking cursor until 2:04 before accepting the 
fact that it was stalled again and not just working behind the scene.  
Sometimes when I tap the space bar, it will resume.  I tapped it 4 times and 
nothing happened.  I pressed Crtl+Alt+Del and nothing happened.  I pressed the 
Off Switch, and instead of turning off, the boot resumed.

The window that has the word Kubuntu with the thin progress bar appeared and 
showed progress to about 3/4 of an inch and paused.  I pressed the space bar 
and it resumed to about 1 1/4 inch and paused again.  I pressed thespace bar 
to get it to resume boot again.  It was not 2:07.  At about 1 1/2 inch the bar 
paused again, and I made it resume by pressing the space bar.

The progress bar then proceeded rapidly to the end and the screen went blank 
and paused again.  At 2:08 I pressed the space bar an the boot resumed but 
stopped with the following window showing:  Uuntu is running in low-graphics 
mode.   Your screen, graphics card, and input device setings could not be 
detected correctly.  You will  need to configure these yourself.  I pressed OK 
to get the next instruction:  what would you like to do:

X	Run Ubuntu in low graphics mode for just one session.
	Reconfigure graphics
	Trouble shoot the error
	Exit to console again

Stand by one minute while display restarts.  I chose the Run Ubuntu...... as 
indicated by the X, because I would not know what to do with the other choices 
anyway.

Finally I got a new screen with numerous repetitive statements that only 
changed the number in the range shown:  It said the following:

Warning:  Invalid uptime 330760      Ignoring sample.
(the line repeated the full screen with the number changing on each line until 
it came to 331120).  Then it printed the following statement:

Wrote image:  /var/log/bootchart/Yeshua-Jaunty- 20090428-.png.  It paused 
there again, so I pressed Ctrl+Alt+Del and it rebooted.  This time when it 
came to the pause points I pressed the appropriate space bar or off key to 
reduce the pauses.  It passed through the boot process this time and came to a 
workng screen again.  Several plasmoids did not work, but I was able to remove 
and reinstall and reprogram them and get them to work.  I am writing this 
email from the same computer that has the problem, right now.

The Bootchart that you see is the one that was made when I was at that last 
point prior to pause without resume, then reboot to open system.

Sorry about the long winded reply, but I had to write it all long hand to keep 
an accurate record of what I was doing.  I did not have access to copy and 
paste or a typewriter.

I would like to say that I downloaded the Jaunty Rc, and formatted prior to 
installation, just to be sure the installation would be perfect.  I had the 
copy application verify that I had a perfect copy too.  Still installation was 
a little difficult.

There is a comment that needs to be added into the boot sequence that I cannot 
remember how to do.  It is the inclusion of the term pci=nomsi.  I believe it 
is special for my graphics card and motherboard chip, I just can't remember, 
but it not being installed may be the heart of all my problems.  Until I get 
some help to put the comment in the correct place, I can do nothing.  I prefer 
not reinstalling if you can not help me.  I would like to add the comment 
first.  I just have to find out how, with an explanation that I can understand 
and then execute.  I hope you have experience in this area.

I believe that this is the reason I was forced to use the Alpha and then Beta 
Jaunty applications while ill prepaired for what that involves, nonetheless, 
my motherboard is a bit high tech, and the Video card is fairly current 
technology requiring different treatment in the Kubuntu development package.

Booting involves loosing plasmoids and having to re-establish them, which is a 
bit of a pain, but I am willing to try again with the bootchart feature if 
that is what you recommend; I believe we will get the same results though.

When I was in the Alpha and Beta stages of Jaunty, my computer worked 
brilliantly except for a couple of non essential glitches that were fixed in 
the Rc, so I have been more than satisfied up until now.  It has been less 
problematic that all the apps from Feisty on until Jaunty.  I love the program 
and want to get my computer stabilized not change to another OS.  It wouldn't 
work anyway, because of my motherboard and processor, the amount of memory I 
am running, and the nVidia video card.  These are why Jaunty is required for 
my computer to work, unless I return to that dinosaur Vista.  I would rather 
live through the problems I have than do that.

Steven