Extremely slow boot and shutdown and I have no idea why.

**Atrophy** · August 5th, 2010

Hi everyone =)

I've been using Ubuntu for a few months now. I have the 64 bit version of 10.04. My issue is that when booting into Ubuntu, it's extremely slow. I'm talking minutes here. When I shut down the computer, the same thing occurs. Occasionally it won't even shut down but just hang. It may not be hanging, but after about 5 minutes I get tired of waiting.

I have no idea why this is happening.

Some other specifications that seem important are my system is set to dual boot along with Win 7 64-bit. The model of my computer is the Asus M50. Instead of copying all the specs, the computer can be found on Newegg here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-343-_-Product

I hope someone can point me in the right direction to solving this issue. I'm happy to cooperate with anyone who's willing to do so.

**corrytonapple** · August 5th, 2010

Is it slow shutting down in 7? Are you using programs that use a lot of memory? Looks like a good computer.

**NightwishFan** · August 5th, 2010

Generally a long boot is caused by a floppy drive enabled in the bios (even if you do not have a floppy). Turn off any such options first to see if boot improves. Also, perhaps post your /var/log/syslog here either as a file or inside code (#) tags.

**Atrophy** · August 5th, 2010

I've done a bit of reading thus far - seen the issues with the floppy drive. I've made sure this is definitely not enabled.

A friend of mine suggested it may be an issue with ext4 and recommended reinstalling with ext3.

Win 7 boots and shuts down normally.

Before I post it, I want to say that /var/log/syslog is *huge*. Perhaps it would be smaller after a reboot? I'm not sure how this file works exactly.
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As far as memory intensive programs go - i'm not running anything out of the ordinary. Chrome and compiz seem to be the most resource intensive. Other than that I typically have open office up, vlc, rtorrent or transmission, skype, and that's about it.

I also have a blank ext3 partition formatted and ready to go... but i'm not sure what to copy and how I would change grub and anything else I'd need to make the system boot properly.

Update: This only happens when I fully shutdown. The slowness doesn't occur when I reboot.

**Atrophy** · August 6th, 2010

Im going to narrow this problem down:

There is a 30 second pause after I select Ubuntu in Grub and when Ubuntu actually starts loading.

How do I get rid of this pause?