11.10 boots slower than Windows

[Vernon Cole]

I have done a keyword search and cannot find that anyone else has mentioned this, so I will be the one who raises this yellow flag, in the spirit of bug report #1:
  One of the advocacy points I use when trying to sell people on using Ubuntu is the boot speed. I can (could before this week) shut down Ubuntu, rather than "sleep" it like I do Windows, because it boots so fast -- or it used to.
  Since upgrading to 11.10 Beta 1, boot time has become very slow. My stopwatch says 148.99 seconds to get a login prompt from the grub menu. This compared to 36.6 seconds for the Windows Vista on the other partition. When I select a previous version of Linux, the boot time is still equally slow, so my original guess that the kernel change made the difference is probably incorrect. I don't know where the problem is, but something has gone very sour in the boot up process for my favorite O.S.
  Perhaps this will be a goal for next release, but something should be done about it.
--
Vernon

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unity 4.12.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic i686
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,mousepoll,vpswitch,regex,animation,snap,expo,move,compiztoolbox,place,grid,imgpng,gnomecompat,wall,ezoom,workarounds,staticswitcher,resize,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,scale,session,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Thu Sep 8 09:30:39 2011
DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-09-05 13:32:59.087932
DistroCodename: oneiric
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) [8086:2a02] (rev 0c) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:029a]
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:029a]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110426)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Vostro A860
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-10-generic root=UUID=14434f20-c0da-456d-817c-72986a7d960f ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: unity
UdevDb: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-06 (2 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 09/18/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A02
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA02:bd09/18/2008:svnDellInc.:pnVostroA860:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Vostro A860
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.5.92+bzr2791-0ubuntu2
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.26-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.11-0ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.11-0ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu6
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.6.0-1ubuntu13
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20110811.g93fc084-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.901-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1

[IKT (ikt)]

Are you able to attach a bootchart?

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BootCharting

:)

[Vernon Cole (vernondcole)]

Here's the .png from bootchart. Or did you want the data files?

[Marc-Andre Meloche (marcandremeloche)]

same problem here, and i have a sata3 ssd :(

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[richard verwer (rverwer1986)]

I have the same problem on my Ubuntu 11.10 install.

Dual booting Ubuntu 11.10 AMD64 and Windows 7 Professional x64.
Windows is almost three times as fast a Ubuntu when booting. Also,
logging out takes about a minute from pressing Logout to beeing
able to login again.

That's on a SATAIII OCZ Vertex 3 drive, a Core i7 930 @ 2,8GHz and 12Gb
of RAM! Since I'm reading on the net about the network-manager possibly
having something to do with this, maybe it'll help stating i'm on a wired
connection exclusively.

[Vishal Telangre (vishaltelangre)]

I also facing similar issue whenever I make dual boot with a Windows system. Currently I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 (with Gnome 3 Shell) and Windows 7 Operating systems on my Lenovo G570 with 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, Intel® Core™ i3-2310M CPU @ 2.10GHz × 4 Processor and Intel® Sandybridge Mobile x86/MMX/SSE2 Graphics. I have ethernet connectivity for Internet and apache2, mysql services runs at startup. I've attached my bootchart image-cast with this comment to provide more useful graphical info on how my system takes time to execute different programs.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Vernon Cole, thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Oneiric reached EOL on May 9, 2013.
See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Is this an issue in a supported release? If so, could you please execute the following command, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:
apport-collect 844946

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for linux (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]