Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: alsa-utils

Hey there,

for two weeks* already my system almost always hangs for some minutes
when booting (sometimes up to 5 minutes and more). This always happens
right before the X server is started, i.e. I can already see the tty,
can log in and do stuff et cetera until suddenly the screen goes dark
and then the Nvidia logo and finally the Unity desktop is being
displayed.

This is my system:
- Thinkpad W510
- Intel Quad Core Processor i7 720QM (1.6GHz 1066MHz 6MB L3)
- NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M with 1GB DDR3
- Intel HD Audio with a CX20585 codec
- more info: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:W510

Software:
- Ubuntu 11.04
- alsa-utils 1.0.24.2-0ubuntu6

I suppose that it's alsactl causing the hanging since:
- $ top tells me that only one task is running with several alsactl entries 
being right on top.
- powertop tells me that alsactl is the reason for 46% of CPU wake-ups.

I already went through the logs but couldn't find almost anything. The
only thing I can tell is that the following is being printed as soon as
the tty is there (found in /var/log/kern.log):

Jun 15 22:43:42 philosoph kernel: [   34.105578] IBM TrackPoint firmware: 0x0e, 
buttons: 3/3
Jun 15 22:43:42 philosoph kernel: [   34.410516] input: TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint 
as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/input/input8
Jun 15 22:43:45 philosoph kernel: [   37.522706] CE: hpet2 increased 
min_delta_ns to 7500 nsec
Jun 15 22:43:45 philosoph kernel: [   37.522796] CE: hpet2 increased 
min_delta_ns to 11250 nsec
Jun 15 22:43:45 philosoph kernel: [   37.522892] hrtimer: interrupt took 11831 
ns
Jun 15 22:44:04 philosoph kernel: [   56.175240] CE: hpet3 increased 
min_delta_ns to 7500 nsec
Jun 15 22:44:04 philosoph kernel: [   56.175328] CE: hpet3 increased 
min_delta_ns to 11250 nsec
Jun 15 22:44:48 philosoph kernel: [  100.213623] CE: hpet6 increased 
min_delta_ns to 7500 nsec
Jun 15 22:44:48 philosoph kernel: [  100.213696] CE: hpet6 increased 
min_delta_ns to 11250 nsec
Jun 15 22:45:34 philosoph kernel: [  146.080280] CE: hpet5 increased 
min_delta_ns to 7500 nsec
Jun 15 22:45:34 philosoph kernel: [  146.080348] CE: hpet5 increased 
min_delta_ns to 11250 nsec
Jun 15 22:46:10 philosoph kernel: [  182.835694] CE: hpet4 increased 
min_delta_ns to 7500 nsec
Jun 15 22:46:10 philosoph kernel: [  182.835771] CE: hpet4 increased 
min_delta_ns to 11250 nsec
Jun 15 22:46:33 philosoph kernel: [  205.700026] ppdev: user-space parallel 
port driver
Jun 15 22:46:33 philosoph kernel: [  205.727981] audit_printk_skb: 18 callbacks 
suppressed
Jun 15 22:46:33 philosoph kernel: [  205.728049] type=1400 
audit(1308170793.851:18): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_replace" 
name="/usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf" pid=1985 comm="apparmor_parser"
Jun 15 22:46:33 philosoph kernel: [  205.729952] type=1400 
audit(1308170793.851:19): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_replace" 
name="/usr/sbin/cupsd" pid=1985 comm="apparmor_parser"

At this point the Nvidia logo usually appears and I can't see any more 
messages. Please notice the time difference.
Maybe the following entry right after the ones from above is of any interest, 
too:

Jun 15 22:46:35 philosoph kernel: [  207.745227] ioremap error for
0xc3ff1000-0xc3ff2000, requested 0x10, got 0x0

I can't say for sure whether it was an update that let to this behavior
(I think checked almost immediately but couldn't find any update that
might be related). Also, yesterday, for the first time it actually
didn't hang during boot-up. This might be related to
"GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text", though, which I put into my
/etc/default/grub due to bug #771905
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/771905).

I really don't know what to do anymore. I would be glad if someone
looked into this. I'll happily provide you with logs and any other
information you request.

* Also see my question from two weeks ago:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/159539 .

** Affects: alsa-utils (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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