On 07/26/2010 07:15 AM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 6:46 AM, MJang<[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 14:47 -0700, Denis Heidtmann wrote: >> >>> I reported here some time ago random failures to complete starting of my >>> Ubuntu 10.04 system. Power off and power on usually results in what >>> >> looks >> >>> like a normal start. Three time now Cups has failed to start on boot. I >>> have found an interesting discussion of the Cups problem. See >>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/554172. Of >>> particular interest is comment #73 and subsequent. It seems very likely >>> that both intermittent problems I have observed (and perhaps some I have >>> not observed!) are of the same origin. >>> >>> One question I have is, where to go from here? The cups issue was first >>> mentioned in April; the last comment was hours ago. It has been marked >>> "Critical" for one month. Are there other places to look for a fix? May >>> >> I >> >>> assume that the problem is deep down in the system, and an update will be >>> forthcoming "real soon now"? I note a bunch of workarounds reported, but >>> not understanding them makes me concerned that they may break something >>> worse. >>> >> Dear Denis, >> >> When I've had similar problems, and did not want to get into the >> internals, my workaround has been to use the /etc/rc.local file. You >> should be able to include additional commands in that file -- which are >> run after the services in the default runlevel are started. In this >> case, that's the services in the /etc/rc.2/ directory. >> >> In your case, I'd try including the following command in the >> noted /etc/rc.local file, before the "exit 0" >> >> /etc/init.d/cups start >> >> The /etc/rc.local file is sort of like a band-aid; once the bug is >> fixed, you'll be able to remove the /etc/init.d/cups start command from >> the noted file. >> >> FWIW, CUPS is ok on my My e1405 laptop with 10.04 32-bit. >> >> Thanks, >> Mike >> > > That is certainly reasonable. Cups' failure to start has happened rarely > enough that manual invocation of /etc/init.d/cups start is easy enough. On > your system, you might want to check on what runlevel reports on your > system. When cups fails to start runlevel reports "unknown". This bug may > well be affecting more than one or two services. It would be interesting to > see if on some systems runlevel reports "unknown" even when no other > symptoms are observed. Since I use the printer only occasionally, there may > be many times the error goes unnoticed on my system. The real issue for me > is that this bug is likely responsible for my system failing to start ( > approx. a 20% failure rate). > > -Denis > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > Denis,
I've been running 10.04 on my laptop since end of last week. I'm only rebooting once every 2-3 days though. I'm not seeing any system start up failures on a Dell XPS M1330. Can you force the start up output rather to screen rather than going into the ubuntu splash? I've never tried on ubuntu, but I know in RH and CentOS you can hit f2 or something to get the boot output. You might be able to catch where the hang is. -- Daniel B. Herrington Director of Field Services Robert Mark Technologies [email protected] o: 651-769-2574 ho: 503-419-6464 m: 503-358-8575 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
