Let's boot with Upstart (GDM ready in 15s)

**CJ Master** · March 7th, 2009

Originally Posted by dragos240

this should be used in jaunty

I believe it is.

**dragos240** · March 8th, 2009

now that sounds interesting....

**linuxisevolution** · March 8th, 2009

Intrepid boots in 10 seconds by default on my family system, and me with Better specs running hardy is slower!

Family system: AMD 5000+ 2.6ghz X2 2gb 800mhz ram 500gb hdd ( 250+250gb).
Boot time: 10 seconds

My system: Intel E4500 3ghz 4gb 735mhz ram 320gb hdd (250gb + 80gb)
Boot time: 45 seconds

**Sam Lars** · March 8th, 2009

So I tried this out and had no luck with either the original post or the one with the new version, though I didn't try installing the new version.
It kept stopping after saying Starting NFS common... and had a bunch of file system check errors. It looked like it was running through things more than once and erroring out.
I ended up messing up my boot process a bit, but at least I got it working again.

I upgraded to Jaunty, and found it to be faster on boot. I didn't install bootchart, it's a testing installation.
Its /etc/event.d looks the same as Intrepid's, so it's not using Upstart like it's mentioned here.

**Starks** · March 9th, 2009

So... Is there anyway to test upstart 0.5 through the relative safety of a PPA or idiot-proof walkthrough?

**Sam Lars** · March 9th, 2009

What bluk posted is pretty good.
Keep in mind that when messing with something like this, safe is definitely not a word to describe it.
Ubuntu splits the Upstart package up into other packages that provide the rc scripts for upstart to run and the contents of the /etc/event.d (or /etc/init/jobs.d) that Upstart uses. I was able to package Upstart 0.5, but its contents conflicted with the other packages Ubuntu has for it. I'm not sure how to proceed, getting a package to build at all was a first for me.

If you're really interested, you can go ahead and try it. I think I finally figured out where my problems were coming from and what was going on.
If you run into something, start a thread in a support forum... I kind of forgot this is in the Community Cafe.

**Starks** · March 9th, 2009

I only ask because the latest upstart bzr had temporarily hosed my system.

**ghindo** · July 12th, 2009

Now that Karmic is running Upstart 0.6, I wonder how we'll see the boot process change and improve...

**MacUntu** · July 12th, 2009

Would be nice if one of you could upload this depchart.py script - jdong's site seems to be gone.

Files are there: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~uphacke...ck-tools/files

Should have read the thread more carefully.