Upgrade to latest distribution 9.10 has left my computer with serious issues with booting. Usually just freezes. Othertimes takes over 500 seconds to boot unless udevadm is killed in the @bootup in the root crontab

[Anton]

Binary package hint: xorg

Upgrade to latest distribution 9.10 has left my computer with serious issues with booting. Usually just freezes. Other times takes over 500 seconds to boot.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Nov 2 02:16:15 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
MachineType: TOSHIBA Satellite Pro P200
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu7
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=580744d4-b50e-4a43-a8a1-b4d54d01260a ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA.UTF-8
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu7
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0-1ubuntu4
 libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.0-1ubuntu2
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090929.7968e1fb-0ubuntu1
SourcePackage: xorg
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
dmi.bios.date: 02/12/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.bios.version: V2.30
dmi.board.name: ISRAA
dmi.board.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.board.version: 1.00
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: *
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnTOSHIBA:bvrV2.30:bd02/12/2008:svnTOSHIBA:pnSatelliteProP200:pvrPSPB7C-S010BC:rvnTOSHIBA:rnISRAA:rvr1.00:cvnTOSHIBA:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: Satellite Pro P200
dmi.product.version: PSPB7C-S010BC
dmi.sys.vendor: TOSHIBA
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 architecture: i686kernel: 2.6.31-14-generic

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

[Nominated for lucid, but no evidence exists in bug report that it still affects lucid. A lucid compatible version of -fglrx was added just recently, so this needs retested.]

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.

[Anton (anton-panchishin)]

In my attempt to improve the start up time here are some of the things I attempted and their success

 sudo vi /etc/init.d/rc and found the line "CONCURRENCY=none" and changed none to startpar
 sudo vi /etc/sysctl.conf and add the line "vm.swappiness=10" to the end
 Open firefox at url "about:config" search for IPV6 and change value to true.

 sudo vi /etc/default/grub
  changed : GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
  to be : GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="ipv6.disable=1 quiet splash"

These changes improved things slightly.
Finally I discovered this

 Finally made the boot up go super fast with adding a startup contab for root
  sudo crontab -u root -e
 that hunts down and kills the udevadm process that was gumming up the works
  @reboot ps -ef | awk '{ print $8, $2 }' | grep udevadm | awk '{ print "sudo kill "$2 }' | sh

Now the boot up is 30 seconds and seems to be working fine for a couple months.

[Anton (anton-panchishin)]

I do acknowledge that the above "fix" is not a fix at all and just a kludge on top of something that is broken.