Public bug reported: Fully updated Feisty (as of today) running on Dell Inspiron 8200. Specs as I recall: P4-2.8, 512MB RAM, 64MB ATI Radeon Mobility 9000, 40 GB HDD, Ethernet, Wireless (Dell Truemobile 1150), Firewire. Slow boot, seems to be related to "ATA" errors with message showing three times on each boot. Excerpt here taken from kern.log:
Feb 15 19:50:51 scout kernel: [ 24.208000] ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Feb 15 19:50:51 scout kernel: [ 24.208000] ata1.01: (BMDMA stat 0x64) Feb 15 19:50:51 scout kernel: [ 24.208000] ata1.01: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 tag 0 cdb 0x12 data 254 in Feb 15 19:50:51 scout kernel: [ 24.208000] res 51/51:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 Emask 0x1 (device error) Feb 15 19:50:51 scout kernel: [ 24.384000] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 Feb 15 19:50:51 scout kernel: [ 24.548000] ata1.01: configured for UDMA/33 Feb 15 19:50:51 scout kernel: [ 24.548000] ata1: EH complete Feb 15 19:50:51 scout kernel: [ 24.548000] SCSI device sda: 117210240 512-byte hdwr sectors (60012 MB) Feb 15 19:50:51 scout kernel: [ 24.892000] sda: Write Protect is off Feb 15 19:50:51 scout kernel: [ 24.892000] sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 Feb 15 19:50:51 scout kernel: [ 24.896000] SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Feb 15 19:50:51 scout kernel: [ 42.940000] ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Feb 15 19:50:51 scout kernel: [ 42.940000] ata1.01: (BMDMA stat 0x64) Feb 15 19:50:51 scout kernel: [ 42.940000] ata1.01: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 tag 0 cdb 0x12 data 254 in Feb 15 19:50:51 scout kernel: [ 42.940000] res 51/51:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 Emask 0x1 (device error) Feb 15 19:50:51 scout kernel: [ 43.112000] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 Feb 15 19:50:51 scout kernel: [ 43.276000] ata1.01: configured for UDMA/33 Feb 15 19:50:51 scout kernel: [ 43.276000] ata1: EH complete Feb 15 19:50:51 scout kernel: [ 43.276000] SCSI device sda: 117210240 512-byte hdwr sectors (60012 MB) Feb 15 19:50:51 scout kernel: [ 43.612000] sda: Write Protect is off Feb 15 19:50:51 scout kernel: [ 43.612000] sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 Feb 15 19:50:51 scout kernel: [ 43.612000] SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Feb 15 19:50:51 scout kernel: [ 43.940000] Attempting manual resume Feb 15 19:50:51 scout kernel: [ 44.016000] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds Feb 15 19:50:51 scout kernel: [ 44.016000] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Feb 15 19:50:51 scout kernel: [ 74.676000] ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Feb 15 19:50:51 scout kernel: [ 74.676000] ata1.01: (BMDMA stat 0x64) Feb 15 19:50:51 scout kernel: [ 74.676000] ata1.01: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 tag 0 cdb 0x12 data 254 in Feb 15 19:50:51 scout kernel: [ 74.676000] res 51/51:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 Emask 0x1 (device error) Feb 15 19:50:51 scout kernel: [ 74.848000] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 Feb 15 19:50:51 scout kernel: [ 75.012000] ata1.01: configured for UDMA/33 Feb 15 19:50:51 scout kernel: [ 75.012000] ata1: EH complete ProblemType: Bug Date: Thu Feb 15 20:42:03 2007 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04 Uname: Linux scout 2.6.20-6-generic #2 SMP Wed Jan 31 20:53:39 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux ** Affects: Ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- Error messages during boot https://launchpad.net/bugs/85484 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs