Setting up Ubuntu server - Questions

[AvengerX9]

I dont know what to install Any ideas ? Just did sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude dist-upgrade and the aptitude came up with 30% cpu for a second, same with apt-get and dpkg-deb with around 25%

You can see the site in my sig. You will probably notice how slow it just by loading a page or two

[AvengerX9]

The dist-upgrade is still going on

top - 19:22:15 up 16:42,  2 users,  load average: 3.19, 2.24, 1.46
Tasks: 112 total,   1 running, 111 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.2%us,  0.1%sy,  0.0%ni, 73.1%id, 26.6%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   8140992k total,  2821716k used,  5319276k free,   147104k buffers
Swap:  8347644k total,        0k used,  8347644k free,  1665164k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
23827 www-data  20   0  280m  67m 4252 S    1  0.8   0:00.58 apache2
    1 root      20   0 24328 2296 1360 S    0  0.0   0:01.37 init
    2 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd
    3 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:01.02 ksoftirqd/0
    6 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.17 migration/0
    7 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.12 watchdog/0
    8 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.08 migration/1
   10 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.42 ksoftirqd/1
   11 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.10 watchdog/1
   12 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.14 migration/2

[AvengerX9]

Just restarted now and its also very slow in starting up and it hangs on for a long time on this part

Begin: Running /scripts/init/bottom ... done
[94.326728] Adding 8347644k swap on /dev/mapper/truckstop24-swap_....

also now after staying on that line for 3-4 minutes or more I get this

The disk drive for /boot is not ready yet or not present
continue to wait, or press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery

Userspace bootsplash [fail]

[CharlesA]

Huh. How did you do the partitioning? It looks like you have LVM setup judging from the fdisk you posted earlier.

What happens if you hit s to skip? It probably won't boot, though.

[AvengerX9]

Huh. How did you do the partitioning? It looks like you have LVM setup judging from the fdisk you posted earlier.

What happens if you hit s to skip? It probably won't boot, though.

Honestly when I did the partitioning I had no idea what I was doing! I just wanted fresh disks with no windows so first I was trying to format them all before I went any further


the reboot takes more than forever now and it seems like there is some kind of an interface there? Those flashing ubuntu balls. Do you think I would be better of to just do a re-install ?

[AvengerX9]

I will do it all over again booting now from my Ubuntu disc. Thing is that allready the first steps in the installation the computer is slow. Yesterday I spent between 3-4 hours just for the installation.

[CharlesA]

I will do it all over again booting now from my Ubuntu disc. Thing is that allready the first steps in the installation the computer is slow. Yesterday I spent between 3-4 hours just for the installation.

Wow. There is no way a dual core machine with 8GB of ram should take that long to either boot up or do a fresh install.

Are you sure there aren't any hardware problems?

I would suggest installing the server edition and see if it runs any better.

[AvengerX9]

Its the server edition I'm running I used the desktop on my old computer which was working very good, but I think it was compromised. So I wanted the server edition next time. Just deleted all of my disks and partitions now and made a fresh start.

I just wonder though. when I was in the partition manager in setup there was one disk and the manager wouldn't let me choose whether the partitions should be logical or primary. I was able to choose that on 2 out 3 disks.

[AvengerX9]

Just got an error again. "Unable to install GRUB in /dev/sda Executing 'grub-install /dev/sda' failed. This is a fatal error." Why does that happen ?

[AvengerX9]

Now I have tried installing with the partition stuff both manually and with the LVM things and it seems to go faster during the rest of the installation when I choose to setup manually. Do I need the LVM stuff?