Thanks to Shaun McCance for comment #12. I see what the trouble is. Yelp
is setting itself up to display its full glorious range of capabilities
before it starts drawing to the screen. Hence the long delay with
nothing happening on screen. Make it draw its window, menu bar and the
content of the
Lucid still seems to have Yelp 2.30.0 (with the bug), as of today. If
this bug is fixed in Yelp 2.31.1 then why not push that out as an
update?
I was showing Ubuntu to someone who had never heard of Linux, the other
day. And they wanted to know, What is this Ubuntu thing? So I did
System About
The revised version of Upstart fixed it for me. Thanks to Scott James
Remnant and Andy Whitcroft. I have done many cold boots and restarts
since the fix, and the bug is gone.
To avoid problems with Plymouth, get rid of quiet splash in the Grub
kernel command line. Alas, Grub and Grub 2 are
Many thanks to Andy Whitcroft for his truly excellent analysis above in
comment #245.
REPRODUCING THE BUG: It looks to me as though what is required to
reproduce this bug is a fast multi-core machine with a slow video card.
It just so happens that is exactly what my machine is like. When I build
Alas, I too am being regularly bitten by this bug. I have a fully up to
date version of Lucid, V10.04. Computer: mobo Asus M2N-SLI DELUXE,
nVidia chipset, CPU dual core Athlon 64, main memory 1GiB, video chipset
nVidia 7600GS, monitor 19-inch Hitach CM766ET CRT. Computer was built by
me in 2006,
Oops, hasty proofreading. In comment #208 of mine, the sentence:
This suggests that the Upstart job /etc/init/rc.rc-sysinit.conf is not
running.
should read:
This suggests that the Upstart job /etc/init/rc-sysinit.conf is not
running.
Wrong filename. Sorry about that folks.
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