Long Boot Times on Feisty Fawn Beta?

I am using the latest updated version of the Feisty. When it is booting, when it gets to about 40% on the status bar it hangs there for about 2 minutes before continuing the boot sequence. Anyone else have this?

 

Would you computer happen to have network-manager installed? If so, type this command:

Code:

sudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces

And comment out every line except for the Io interface.

For example:

Code:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

#auto eth0
#iface eth0 inet dhcp

#auto eth1
#iface eth1 inet dhcp

And save.

The problem may be network-manager trying to set up your wireless before it is allowed to. If this is indeed the problem, your boot time should decrease considerably.

 

Will that have any effect on anything after it boots up?

 

No, once your desktop loads up, network-manager will take over all the network management. No ill effects.

 

Exactly. This works wonders and makes Ubuntu boot in no time.

 

well, technically it's the boot sequence trying to pick up a DHCP IP on eth0, so it waits until it times out.

there is technically an ill effect. the ifup and ifdown scripts won't work any more, but I really doubt you'll need to run those from the terminal providing network-manager is working properly for you.

 

If network manager did happen to go out, I'm sure you could just go back and uncomment the entries in the file and reboot and all would be fine (including ifup and ifdown).

Hey, at least you didn't have to mess with any registry hacks or DLL patches...

 

:laugh:

It takes me exactly one minute from pushing the power button to having Firefox open. That seems as fast as it will ever be. Thanks Lysander.

 

You're very welcome.

 

Is there an exact set date this month when 7.04 will be released in final form?

 

April 19?

- Trip

 

it was something like that. don't like, set the day aside or anything, though... there's a pretty good chance it might get delayed a couple days if there's a real show-stopper bug that is found.