Edgy 2.6.10 taking tens of minutes to boot up

[N. Pauli]

Thank you everyone for your replies which have given me really useful places to look. Unfortunately this will be in the future once I've got my post-holiday jobs out of the way (I've got it up and running and useable).

BTW, the holiday wasn't a software package; it was a week pootling gently down the North and South Oxford canals on a narrowboat and then all the way back up again - heaven!

On Mon, 23 Apr, David Restall - System Administrator wrote:
> Hi Nigel
> 
> > I'm writing this on another machine whilst waiting for Edgy to boot up
> 
> Snip...
> 
> > this causing problems? Is there anything I can insert at the GRUB prompt
> > to let the machine know that that is handling the graphics? Anyway,
> > why should I have to!?! Surely, that's the job of /etc/X11/xorg.conf!!
> 
> Are you sure it's X that's causing the problem.  Edit the boot command
> and turn quiet off so you can see all the boot messages and see where it
> pauses.
> 
> You should have a line like :-
> 
> kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-28-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet
> 
> remove the quiet and boot the machine.  When it boots you will see lots
> of diagnostic messages.  At some point it will pause and you will get an
> idea of why its pausing - hopefully - unless it is an xorg problem.
> 
> It's my pet hate with ubuntu, every time a kernel is upgraded, it
> rewrites the grub config and turns quiet on, I haven't yet managed to
> sort out how to change the default without some serious hacking.  Having
> a noisy boot is preferable to a quiet one IMHO.
> 
> > > My work around is never to turn off my machine - unless I'm away on
> > > holiday - which I have been for the last week.
> 
> Holiday ? whats all that about then - is it some new software package ;-)
> 
> > Can anyone tell me what is actually happening here?
> 
> You may also see something in /var/log/Xorg.0.log*.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> 
> Dave
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Nigel Pauli
Network Manager
St. John's School, Northwood
http://www.st-johns.org.uk/