Excessive boot time in Gutsy

[John Rose]

I have a Durion desktop. On Feisty, it booted in 2 minutes. On Gutsy upgrade, it takes 6+ minutes. Shown below is part of kern.log. t takes about 30 seconds with no disk activity to get through each set of messages from 'Exception Emask...frozen' to EH complete . I have no idea what these messages mean. Can you you tell me their meaning? Also, how can I reduce this 'freezing'?

Nov 23 15:06:27 localhost kernel: [ 15.164000] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic USB SD Reader 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
Nov 23 15:06:27 localhost kernel: [ 15.164000] scsi 2:0:0:1: Direct-Access Generic USB MS Reader 1.03 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
Nov 23 15:06:27 localhost kernel: [ 37.884000] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Nov 23 15:06:27 localhost kernel: [ 37.884000] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in
Nov 23 15:06:27 localhost kernel: [ 37.884000] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
Nov 23 15:06:27 localhost kernel: [ 37.884000] ata1: soft resetting port
Nov 23 15:06:27 localhost kernel: [ 38.064000] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
Nov 23 15:06:27 localhost kernel: [ 38.064000] ata1: EH complete
Nov 23 15:06:27 localhost kernel: [ 68.064000] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Nov 23 15:06:27 localhost kernel: [ 68.064000] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in
Nov 23 15:06:27 localhost kernel: [ 68.064000] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
Nov 23 15:06:27 localhost kernel: [ 68.064000] ata1: soft resetting port
Nov 23 15:06:27 localhost kernel: [ 68.244000] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
Nov 23 15:06:27 localhost kernel: [ 68.244000] ata1: EH complete
Nov 23 15:06:27 localhost kernel: [ 98.244000] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Nov 23 15:06:27 localhost kernel: [ 98.244000] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in
Nov 23 15:06:27 localhost kernel: [ 98.244000] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
Nov 23 15:06:27 localhost kernel: [ 98.244000] ata1: soft resetting port
Nov 23 15:06:27 localhost kernel: [ 98.424000] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
Nov 23 15:06:27 localhost kernel: [ 98.424000] ata1: EH complete
Nov 23 15:06:27 localhost kernel: [ 128.424000] ata1.00: limiting speed to UDMA/66:PIO4
Nov 23 15:06:27 localhost kernel: [ 128.424000] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Nov 23 15:06:27 localhost kernel: [ 128.424000] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in
Nov 23 15:06:27 localhost kernel: [ 128.424000] res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
Nov 23 15:06:27 localhost kernel: [ 128.424000] ata1: soft resetting port
Nov 23 15:06:27 localhost kernel: [ 128.604000] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/66
Nov 23 15:06:27 localhost kernel: [ 128.604000] ata1: EH complete

[Evan (ev)]

This does not appear to be a grub bug, reassigning to the kernel.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10?

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

*This is an automated response*

This bug report is being closed because we received no response to the previous request for information. Please reopen this if it is still an issue in the actively developed pre-release of Jaunty Jackalope 9.04 - http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/jaunty . To reopen the bug report simply change the Status of the "linux" task back to "New".