startup takes forever

[TheForumTroll]

Is it possible to disable the touchpad in the BIOS? If it is you could try that and see if it helps. I don't have a laptop so sadly I don't know much about the topic.

[haiyun211]

Um im not sure. How where you able to tell that there was a pause there im still way nube to this?

[TheForumTroll]

[   13.129481] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input8
[  195.565030] type=1505 audit(1249864243.232:2): operation="profile_load" name="/usr/share/gdm/guest-session/Xsession" name2="default" pid=2121

I'm no Linux guru so I might be way wrong here but as far as I can tell the numbers in the begining is a kernel timestamp in microseconds. If I'm correct there is a ~3minutes pause between those two lines (195 seconds = 3.25 minutes).

[haiyun211]

Ok sounds good to me. Ok so let me see if this sounds normal to you. I start up and get the ubuntu splash screen and then the bar gets about half way and then stops for a about 30 seconds then starts to a black screen with all these commands that make no sense to me and then it freezes freequently and then finaly gets to the login screen.

[TheForumTroll]

Sounds like something is slow to start up. Could be the touchpad. I think that's what happens if something is really slow.

[haiyun211]

Do you think that it could mean my touch pad is going out? If so that sucks bad.

[haiyun211]

Do you think that it could mean my touch pad is going out? If so that sucks bad.

[TheForumTroll]

I would guess if it still works it is fine. Might be a driver problem tough as I said I don't have a laptop so I have no idea if I'm right or totally wrong .

[haiyun211]

Ok well thanks for all fo your help.

[TheForumTroll]

Have look at this bug. Maybe that is it?

EDIT:Oh I just saw that you are using kernel 2.6.28-13-generic. Did you try with a new kernel? Isn't there a kernel 2.6.28-15-generic you can chose when you boot? That is if you have updated.