slow start up Ubuntu 14.04

[Colin Law]

On 18 May 2014 17:23, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 18 May 2014 16:22, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com>
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>> >> hi,
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>> >> > This is an external hard drive.  The internal failed.
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>> >> was the faster 13.10 installation on the same drive ?
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>> >> how is this external disk attached ? (eSATA, USB 2.0,  USB 3.0,
>> >> thunderbolt, firewire  ...) ?
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>> >> ciao
>> >>         oli
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>> >> --
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>> > The same drive had 13.10 on it.  it is connected via usb 3.0.
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>> > Oh, I did not realize you could click on 'computer' to see system files,
>> > that's why I ran gksudo.
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>> > Anyway the bootlog file shows 80 seconds.  I think that is just from
>> > login
>> > on, judging by how long booting from scratch actually takes.
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>> I think it is the time to boot, which is the time *to* the login
>> screen, or to the start of the login operation if you have autologin
>> enabled.  I did suggest that you switch off autologin in order to see
>> whether it is the boot or the login that is taking the time.
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>> Colin
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> I do not have autologin enabled.  what is really slow is after I log in.

OK, I was confused as you said that it was slow to boot rather than it
being slow to login.  Boot time is generally considered to be the time
it takes to get to the login screen (I think).

Colin