Ah .... rats... It always pays to double check everything many times before writing a report.
Ureadahead puts its parameter file "pack" into /var/lib/ureadahead. I confirmed that the pack files were gone after I removed ureadahead.conf and ureadahead-other.conf from /etc/init. The I did the obvious further test test. I put ureadahead.conf and ureadahead-other.conf back into /etc/init (but left plymouth.conf out) and rebooted. It booted fast. It also recreated the /var/lib/ureadahead/pack file. So I rebooted again. It boots even faster!!! (about 23 seconds). Dang. Ureadahead was not the problem. I booted a couple of times to confirm. So.... I put plymouth.conf, plymouth-log.conf, plymouth-splash.conf and plymouth-stop.conf back into /etc/init and rebooted. No problem. The boot time remains at 23 seconds. Note that I have only "ro" on the kernel command line. The original ubuntu distribution has also got "quiet splash" there. But I don't want those anyway. I rebooted several times. If I reboot from a terminal shell issuing the command "reboot" (as root), the boot time is consistently 23 seconds. If I reboot from the gdm desktop using the "restart" menu entry, the boot time is about 48 seconds. I don't know why there is a difference here but I am not so worried about that difference. Note that I have bootchart running during boot (bootchart.conf in /etc/init). I am now not sure I want to say what caused the slow boot problem. But removing ureadahead and plymouth and rebooting several times... and then putting them back... appears to have solved the problem. It could be that simply removing any pack files in /var/lib/ureadahead and then rebooting would have also solved the problem. Perhaps someone could test this. Resume from suspend (lid closed/opened) still takes almost exactly 5 minutes (tested 2 times). So that problem remains. -- wakeup from sleep fails on toshiba nb305 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/508516 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
