Changes in booting with ubuntu-server 10.04

[Fabio T. Leitao]

By the way, I always try the server distro on a notebook due to the great
chance for problems... when I am happy with it, I try the on a desktop
hardware too... and only then on a server system.. each one has its
particulars, but the OS it self sould be able to work on them all... since
the major difference sould be only the clock ticker (if not mistaken)

the transformation to "desktop" usually is as easy as an apt-get install
ubuntu-desktop anyway (and may be a few autoremoves --purge also)

2010/3/23 Fabio T. Leitao <fabio.tleitao at gmail.com>

> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>     > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>>>     > Van: ubuntu-server-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
>>>    <mailto:ubuntu-server-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com>
>>>     > [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
>>>     > Aan: ubuntu-server at lists.ubuntu.com
>>>    <mailto:ubuntu-server at lists.ubuntu.com>
>>>
>>>     > 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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>>>     > Qualcomm Inc.
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>> Micheal Waltz
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>> Qualcomm Inc.
>> Phone: 858-845-6083
>> Cell: 858-882-7079
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