slow start up Ubuntu 14.04

[Colin Law]

On 18 May 2014 08:07, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 17 May 2014 06:51, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > It is taking over 2 1/2 minutes to boot Ubuntu 14.04.  13.10 was around
>> > a
>> > minute on the same computer-  maybe a little less.  Nothing in startup
>> > applications seems to be the cause.
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>> Does the fact that you mention startup applications mean that you are
>> including the time to login?  If so you should first disable
>> auto-login in order to see whether it is the boot that is slow or the
>> login.
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>> Colin
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> It is after the login that things really slow down.  To get to the login
> takes 30 secs, a bit slow.
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> I ran bootchart.  it seems the only way to retrieve the file it creates is
> to open nautilus as root, gksudo nautilus.  Not sure what to make of the
> file and not sure how to upload it.  I can save a copy but can not see it
> unless running gksudo as root owns it.

Are you sure you are looking at the right file?  It is the png file in
/var/log/bootchart as described in the wiki.  There should be no need
to run as root to see that.  Just double click it in nautilus and it
should open (it is an image file).

Colin