Public bug reported:
After upgrading from Ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10 and applying all available
updates, upstart needs about 8h to start a server. The upstart process
hangs after while network interfaces are started. The startup takes
longer as more cores and network interfaces are available (doesn't mater
if virtual or real --- only the number counts).
On a system with 2 cores and 8 network interfaces (2 real (1 wlan, 1 ethernet),
6 virtual) it takes about 3 minutes to show the prompt)
On a system with 4 cores and 4 network interfaces (1 real, 4 virtual) it takes
about 8 minutes to show the prompt)
On a system with 16 cores and 10 network interfaces (4 real, 6 virtual) it
takes about 4 hours (!) to show the prompt)
The first and second system hang after or while initializing networking,
the third system hangs after mounting devices. All systems taking a long
time initializing networking. Since it is quite difficult to find out
what really happens.
There are some possibilities:
1. Some events are not generated as expected, upstart waiting until these
events are generated.
2. Some events are generated, but the event queue kicks them out before they
are handled
3. Upstart starts scripts at the wrong time (networking before /run and /var
are mounted
4. Events are generated before the task, the event shall be generated by is
really done
(may be by pushing scripts or programs into background, reporting
immediately they ran successfully)
5. Events are generated, but an other part of upstart reverts the task reported
as done confusing itself
(I am seeing various multiple started, stopped, started, stopped for on and
the same script while booting)
I'd await upstart starting the system within reasonable times --- about
a few minutes when checking disks, about a few 10seconds normaly, not
quarters of an hour or hours!
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: upstart 1.3-0ubuntu11
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.1.0-2.3-server 3.1.0
Uname: Linux 3.1.0-2-server x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.25-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Nov 4 18:48:53 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64
(20110426)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: upstart
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-09-19 (46 days ago)
** Affects: upstart (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug precise
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