[ubuntu-uk] Strange problem on Lucid ....
Hi there Wondered if anyone has any thoughts on this. I'm running Lucid on a Dell Inspiron Mini v10. Every 10th or so re-boot, it seems to carry out a forced disk check. I don't know if it's relevant, but it has an SSD drive which I formatted ext2 on the advice on an Ubuntu forum as ext2 is faster than ext3 and less write-intensive so more appropriate for an SSD. Dring the forced check, the original Ubuntu splash screen was counting up to around 71% and freezing. Altering grub to remove quiet splash showed that the boot process was getting beyond fsck and displaying a further couple of lines. I omitted to note down what these said. I tried including GRB_CMDLINE_LINUX=noapic. This did not help. I currently have GRB_CMDLINE_LINUX=noapic, nolapic, noapci in /etc/default/grub (followed by update-grub), and the last couple of times the disk check has been observed, it has completed OK. fsck was forced with the comment disk not unmounted cleanly. I don't know why this happens as I've done a normal shutdown on every occasion so far. Any thoughts? Also, I don't fully understand the implications for me of taking out apic etc, and whether any of the apic/apci/lapic options might be what I really need. I've done almost no low level stuff, and am interested to know a bit more. Is there a grub expert in the house? Regards, Barry -- From Barry Drake (The Revd) Health and Healing advisor to the East Midlands Synod of the United Reformed Church. See http://www.urc5.org.uk/index for information about the synod, and http://www.urc5.org.uk/?q=node/703 for the Synod Healing pages. Replies - b.dr...@ntlworld.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem on Lucid ....
On Monday 19 Apr 2010 16:31:10 Barry Drake wrote: Hi there Wondered if anyone has any thoughts on this. I'm running Lucid on a Dell Inspiron Mini v10. Every 10th or so re-boot, it seems to carry out a forced disk check. I don't know if it's relevant, but it has an SSD drive which I formatted ext2 on the advice on an Ubuntu forum as ext2 is faster than ext3 and less write-intensive so more appropriate for an SSD. Dring the forced check, the original Ubuntu splash screen was counting up to around 71% and freezing. Altering grub to remove quiet splash showed that the boot process was getting beyond fsck and displaying a further couple of lines. I omitted to note down what these said. I tried including GRB_CMDLINE_LINUX=noapic. This did not help. I currently have GRB_CMDLINE_LINUX=noapic, nolapic, noapci in /etc/default/grub (followed by update-grub), and the last couple of times the disk check has been observed, it has completed OK. fsck was forced with the comment disk not unmounted cleanly. I don't know why this happens as I've done a normal shutdown on every occasion so far. Any thoughts? Take a look at this bug and its duplicates on launchpad https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/554737 . -- Registered Linux User #466407 http://counter.li.org -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem on Lucid ....
Mark Fraser wrote: Take a look at this bug and its duplicates on launchpad https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/554737 . Thanks for that. This is definitely the same bug, and it explains a whole lot of things I'm seeing. I know where to look now. Plymouth has repeatedly crashed, but I hadn't realised what it does until now. Sounds like the whole problem will soon be sorted. Regards, Barry -- From Barry Drake (The Revd) Health and Healing advisor to the East Midlands Synod of the United Reformed Church. See http://www.urc5.org.uk/index for information about the synod, and http://www.urc5.org.uk/?q=node/703 for the Synod Healing pages. Replies - b.dr...@ntlworld.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
