Changes in booting with ubuntu-server 10.04

[Fabio T. Leitao]

my test system is a physical hardware (hp dv2000 notebook) but it happens
since the first boot from upgrade.. I have found the same ticket and it oded
me being invalid yet with so many logs... I got to be an issue, though not
in the ureadahead it self, but something solvable

2010/3/23 Michael Waltz <mwaltz at qualcomm.com>

> I'm getting the same error "ureadahead-other main process (###) terminated
> with status 4", although I think it may be due to it running on ESX. It
> appears there is a bug report open for it, 484677, with a lot of replies,
> but it's marked as invalid.
>
> I'm going to try 10.04 on some physical hardware this week and see if it
> gives the same errors.
>
> Micheal
>
> Fabio T. Leitao wrote:
>
>> another peculiar change in the boot, it no longer uses sreadahead,
>> replaced by ureadahead...
>>
>> which is just fine by the way, but after I have done a #
>> do-release-upgrade -d from 9.10 to 10.04 on a test environment, I have found
>> out that the sreadahead was still installed, together with ureadahead,
>> making the book impossibly sloooww and full of error in my logs...
>>
>> might be an easy fix during the upgrade script, and was pretty obvious to
>> resolve, mainly because it overshut the plymouth GUI all together, echoing
>> in a bizzar purple terminal (in yellow letters) about the ureadahead exit 4
>> ... pretty ugly combination if you ask me, but I think it was all together
>> an accident
>>
>> I should repport in apport as soon as I can recreate the steps...
>>
>> 2010/3/23 Egbert Jan van den Bussche <egbert at vandenbussche.nl <mailto:
>> egbert at vandenbussche.nl>>
>>
>>
>>    I have not tried any of the alpha or beta releases yet. But now I see
>>    Micheal's horror story. PLEASE do not assume that a server can
>>    display ANY
>>    kind of graphics. All my servers run headles and can only be logged
>>    in with
>>    ssh.  If really no other way, I have to bring a keyboard/display to the
>>    rack...
>>    Again please let the init messages flow over our consoles.
>>
>>    Just my 2$c
>>    Egbert Jan (NL)
>>    HCC!Hobbynet admininistrator
>>
>>
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>>     > [mailto:ubuntu-server-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
>>    <mailto:ubuntu-server-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com>] Namens Michael Waltz
>>     > Verzonden: dinsdag 23 maart 2010 21:57
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>>
>>     > Onderwerp: Changes in booting with ubuntu-server 10.04
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > After trying out the alpha and beta releases of Ubuntu I am
>>     > finding that
>>     > the booting method of 10.04 is greatly altered. I understand
>>     > why there
>>     > were made, to improve the boot time and make it look nicer, but they
>>     > seem to contrast with how a server should boot.
>>     >
>>     > With a traditional unix-like startup a server administrator
>>     > expects to
>>     > see what exactly is booting on the system and if there are
>>     > any failures
>>     > or warnings. It seems that this is not the case in 10.04 so
>>     > far. When I
>>     > first installed Alpha 3, grub automatically booted to the first OS
>>     > listing without even listing the menu (I understand you can
>>     > use ESC to
>>     > go into the menu) and then plymouth took over displaying a
>>     > splash screen
>>     > until the login prompt without showing any boot information.
>>     >
>>     > Are there plans for the 10.04 server version to keep with a
>>     > traditional
>>     > server start-up? Or is this the default we should expect upon
>>     > install?
>>     > I've changed a few things, such as enabling the grub menu with a 5
>>     > second timeout, removing plymouth on install, but there are
>>     > still a few
>>     > bits that make booting seem odd. The first is that the
>>     > systems boots by
>>     > default to tty7, displaying a blank screen like it's expecting X to
>>     > start up. The second is I'm unable to find a way to have
>>     > upstart display
>>     > any information about what init or init.d scripts are running.
>>     >
>>     > There are a few bug reports on these items, but they're not
>>     > necessarily
>>     > "bugs" it seems since this is how the desktop flavor is
>>     > suppose to work.
>>     >
>>     > With 10.04 server can we expect a traditional server boot or are
>>     > individual admins going to have to enable these extra bits of
>>     > verbosity
>>     > manually?
>>     >
>>     > --
>>     > Micheal Waltz
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