Karmic slow boot
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Ubuntu |
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Bug Description
ABOUT ME AND MY COMPUTER;
I'm Dutch and 15 years old so sorry for my bad English and I'm pretty new with Linux coding. I could miss some important information or investigation info results, please ask them if you need so...
I have an home-made game computer and I've installed Karmic Koala alpha 3 on it and updated with the "stable" updates. I'm using the 2.6.31-4 kernel but I've also noticed the following problem on the 2.6.30 kernels. I've never done something weird with Ubuntu parameters and settings or whatever.
THE PROBLEM;
Ubuntu starts good until about 9-10 seconds, but stays there for 50 seconds. After that he finishes the boot in 2-3 seconds.
I don't think that's normal... Is it?
THE THINGS I'VE TRIED
I've detached all external devices and booted again, same results. So I've ran bootchart an I get a graph but it doesn't make any sense to me, I've attached the graph. I've ran lspci and dmesg in the terminal but the only thing I see that could be the problem are the
"Buffer I/O error on device fd0" lines but that doesn't say anything to me either. I don't even know what the device fd0 is perhaps anyone can tell me?
WHAT I SUSPECT THE PROBLEMS COULD BE;
*When I start Ubuntu in a tekst based mode I see; "Buffer I/O error on device fd0" a couple of times after each other. Perhaps there's the problem...
*I have an onboard Intel video card. Perhaps that's conflicting with my Nvidia GTX 260 graphics card (with installed driver)...
*I could have a bad Ubuntu install....
THE FIX;
I don't know. I'm a kind of stuck here. I hope you guys can fix it or tell me what might could be the problem.
I've attached the lspci and dmesg output in 1 file and the bootchart graph in the other.
If you need more info please ask. And please say it to me if I'm doing stupid things.
Good luck.
| description: | updated |
| ianst (janko-js) wrote | #3 |
| ianst (janko-js) wrote | #4 |
| Ubuntu4life (jeroenmerks) wrote | #5 |
I observe similar symptoms on my Sony Vaio notebook. I installed every version of Ubuntu since 6.x. Now I upgraded to Karmic using update-manager and booting got at least two minutes longer, or maybe more.
As far as I understand, the reason in my case is the following:
- the notebook has one bay in which either DVD drive device or a floppy drive device can be inserted.
- I keep DVD drive in the bay
- during booting, the BIOS reports the existence of the floppy
- something in Ubuntu recognizes that floppy as a device exists and wants to access it
- that same thing doesn't want to let booting continue before the floppy answers!
- floppy never answers.
$ tail syslog
Aug 6 00:00:15 mu3 ntfs-3g[3011]: Mount options: rw,nosuid,
Aug 6 00:00:23 mu3 ntfs-3g[3011]: Unmounting /dev/sda1 (DRV4_VOL1)
Aug 6 00:02:57 mu3 kernel: [ 187.104030] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
Aug 6 00:02:57 mu3 kernel: [ 236.668071] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -102510018 ns)
Aug 6 00:02:57 mu3 kernel: [ 259.875599] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Aug 6 00:02:57 mu3 kernel: [ 298.075393] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Aug 6 00:02:57 mu3 kernel: [ 298.075425] Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0
Aug 6 00:02:57 mu3 kernel: [ 336.267437] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Aug 6 00:02:57 mu3 kernel: [ 336.267469] Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0
Aug 6 00:02:57 mu3 kernel: [ 374.459417] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0