1 min pause while loading 8.10

[fidgaf]

I've recently upgraded to 8.10 from 8.04.

When 8.10 is loading there is a 1 minute pause (with very little, if any hard drive activity) at about 45-50% along the progress bar and then it loads just fine.

No other issues noticed but this is very annoying.

What's going on and can it be fixed?

[LoermansA]

Are you by any chance using a wireless connection? I'm experiencing the same issue whereby the bootprocess stalls at 'Configuring network interfaces' for a minute or so and then proceeds normally. I think it's just waiting for a timeout from DHCP on the wired (eth0) interface before proceeding.

Arjan

[utter-imadness]

You can see what Ubuntu is doing during boot by opening

gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
then scrolling down to your kernel and changing it from "quiet" to "noquiet".

Now you can see exactly what Ubuntu is doing on startup. Hopefully this may help troubleshoot your problem.

[fidgaf]

Wired connection for the PC with the problem although it is a wireless box.

I'll try the menu.lst trick and get back to you.

[avtolle]

Try this; when the progress bar "stalls", press the power button once to see if it continues.

[fidgaf]

The power button idea did nothing.

It certainly seems to be a network issue.

I set menu.lst to noquiet and it stopped on:

Configuring network interface

I had no problems with this before and as you can see from the fact I'm posting here - there are no network/Internet issues that I know of.

I also noted that during the noquiet mounting local filesystems failed.

There is no evidence that there is a problem there either.

I do not know where to go from here.

[fidgaf]

Looking at the network connections it uses Auto eth0 and is the only one present. The connection info seems to be fine and using driver via-rhine.

[Xamiga]

Looking at the network connections it uses Auto eth0 and is the only one present. The connection info seems to be fine and using driver via-rhine.

You should always have Auto lo

[fidgaf]

You should always have Auto lo

How do I change that please?

My wireless box has a ethernet wired connection for the Ubuntu PC only. Other PCs use the wireless.

[Xamiga]

Check the /etc/network/interfaces file.

[fidgaf]

I have:


auto lo
iface lo inet loopback


iface eth1 inet dhcp

auto eth1

Does that help?