Public bug reported:
Yesterday I updated to Intrepid Ibex 8.10 alpha 5 (from Hardy Heron 8.04
LTS) and ever since there's this very peculiar quirk.
During boot up, you know how there's two phases during which you see the
Ubuntu screen with the progress bar - in the first phase the progress
bar just scoots back and forth, then in the second stage it turns into
an actual progress bar, marching from left to right indicating how close
it is to being done... Well during the first stage it just stops
scooting and acts like it's hung. Nothing happens - I can leave it like
that for half an hour and come back to it being in the exact same spot.
Here's where it gets weird: if I press any key (even the CTRL or SHIFT
keys) the progress indicator starts scooting back and forth, but as soon
as I take my finger off the keyboard it stops again and doesn't budge
until I put my finger back on it to nudge it along.
It's like a stubborn child that doesn't want to go to school in the
morning - just stands in one place until I nudge it along on its way.
Once it gets to the second phase where the progress indicator starts
filling up from left to right, I can take my fingers off of the keyboard
and it'll continue on its merry way (I guess by that point it knows it's
gonna have to go to school so begrudgingly it drags its heels, heh).
I assume this is just a bug that will be fixed by the time 8.10 LTS
comes out but I thought I'd bring it up in case any devs find the info
useful, and (more to the point) just because it's so amusingly bizarre.
;)
To be honest I kind of enjoy having it act that way - I like to think it
might befuddle some miscreant blackhat trying to log into my system
while I'm in the break-room ;)
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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After updating to 8.10 alpha 5, system halts on boot-up until I press CTRL key
(or any other key)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/276611
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