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Hi, Have been using various ubuntu versions now for 3 years always on external HDD. Moved from regular spinning HDD to solid state OCZ vertex 3 earlier this year. I am not totally certain that the new HDD is the cause but since then I have regularly encountered very strange performance during bootup of all versions of Ubuntu I have been running. When I boot Ubuntu (currently running 12.04) 3 events may occur in roughly the same frequency (and seemingly totally uncontingent on the PC or laptop setup I choose to run the system on with my portable external HDD): 1) System will boot to black screen with flashing cursor and hang. - 2) System will boot (often through a pause on the black screen with cursor) and hang with a blank purple background. On my HP pavilion laptop a strange white mist can often be seen to generate from the bottom right hand corner and move across the screen while it hangs. + 2) System will boot (often through a pause on the black screen with cursor) and hang with a blank purple background. On my HP pavilion laptop a strange white mist can often be seen to generate from the bottom left hand corner and move across the screen while it hangs. 3) The system will boot to login prompt and everything works fine thereon in. I am skeptical it is my new OCZ solid state HDD mostly because once I get the opportunity to login to Ubuntu I experience no hard disk or indeed other errors nearly as much as I do during the bootup. However the randomness intuitively suggests a hardware issue, perhaps because solid state hard disks are still a little in their infancy. I have done a lot of research into this and it does seem that random boot behaviour is not totally undocumented. (http://askubuntu.com/questions/178057/ubuntu-12-04-reboots-during- startup I can find other reports easily of similar behaviour). During a debug bootup I encountered a "kernel panic" error with "ubuntu no filesystem could mount root" error as well. I have not fiddled much with the Ubuntu system files since original install so am at a loss to explain this. My partition setup is: /dev/sdb1: UUID="67c0ded9-89d1-4303-b5f2-bb335b7cb8af" TYPE="ext4" /dev/sdb2: UUID="9cea33f7-23d0-4cfe-8e3b-b3aa12424c1b" TYPE="ext4" /dev/sdb3: UUID="988d25c7-eaca-4532-a280-1e2a79df0e53" TYPE="swap" /dev/sdb5: UUID="e84e82f1-c893-4ceb-8c55-6f438db7c4ad" TYPE="ext4" My fstab file is: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices # that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5). # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0 # / was on /dev/sdb2 during installation UUID=9cea33f7-23d0-4cfe-8e3b-b3aa12424c1b / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 # /boot was on /dev/sdb1 during installation UUID=67c0ded9-89d1-4303-b5f2-bb335b7cb8af /boot ext4 defaults 0 2 # /home was on /dev/sdb5 during installation UUID=e84e82f1-c893-4ceb-8c55-6f438db7c4ad /home ext4 defaults 0 2 # swap was on /dev/sdb3 during installation UUID=988d25c7-eaca-4532-a280-1e2a79df0e53 none swap sw 0 0 Thanks, Rob ** Description changed: Hi, Have been using various ubuntu versions now for 3 years always on external HDD. Moved from regular spinning HDD to solid state OCZ vertex 3 earlier this year. I am not totally certain that the new HDD is the cause but since then I have regularly encountered very strange performance during bootup of all versions of Ubuntu I have been running. When I boot Ubuntu (currently running 12.04) 3 events may occur in roughly the same frequency (and seemingly totally uncontingent on the PC or laptop setup I choose to run the system on with my portable external HDD): 1) System will boot to black screen with flashing cursor and hang. 2) System will boot (often through a pause on the black screen with cursor) and hang with a blank purple background. On my HP pavilion laptop a strange white mist can often be seen to generate from the bottom left hand corner and move across the screen while it hangs. 3) The system will boot to login prompt and everything works fine thereon in. I am skeptical it is my new OCZ solid state HDD mostly because once I get the opportunity to login to Ubuntu I experience no hard disk or indeed other errors nearly as much as I do during the bootup. However the randomness intuitively suggests a hardware issue, perhaps because - solid state hard disks are still a little in their infancy. + solid state hard disks are still a little in their infancy and somewhat + untested. Perhaps that is a little unfair... I have done a lot of research into this and it does seem that random boot behaviour is not totally undocumented. (http://askubuntu.com/questions/178057/ubuntu-12-04-reboots-during- startup I can find other reports easily of similar behaviour). During a debug bootup I encountered a "kernel panic" error with "ubuntu no filesystem could mount root" error as well. I have not fiddled much with the Ubuntu system files since original install so am at a loss to explain this. My partition setup is: /dev/sdb1: UUID="67c0ded9-89d1-4303-b5f2-bb335b7cb8af" TYPE="ext4" /dev/sdb2: UUID="9cea33f7-23d0-4cfe-8e3b-b3aa12424c1b" TYPE="ext4" /dev/sdb3: UUID="988d25c7-eaca-4532-a280-1e2a79df0e53" TYPE="swap" /dev/sdb5: UUID="e84e82f1-c893-4ceb-8c55-6f438db7c4ad" TYPE="ext4" My fstab file is: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices # that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5). # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0 # / was on /dev/sdb2 during installation UUID=9cea33f7-23d0-4cfe-8e3b-b3aa12424c1b / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 # /boot was on /dev/sdb1 during installation UUID=67c0ded9-89d1-4303-b5f2-bb335b7cb8af /boot ext4 defaults 0 2 # /home was on /dev/sdb5 during installation UUID=e84e82f1-c893-4ceb-8c55-6f438db7c4ad /home ext4 defaults 0 2 # swap was on /dev/sdb3 during installation UUID=988d25c7-eaca-4532-a280-1e2a79df0e53 none swap sw 0 0 Thanks, Rob ** Description changed: Hi, Have been using various ubuntu versions now for 3 years always on external HDD. Moved from regular spinning HDD to solid state OCZ vertex 3 earlier this year. I am not totally certain that the new HDD is the cause but since then I have regularly encountered very strange performance during bootup of all versions of Ubuntu I have been running. When I boot Ubuntu (currently running 12.04) 3 events may occur in roughly the same frequency (and seemingly totally uncontingent on the PC or laptop setup I choose to run the system on with my portable external HDD): 1) System will boot to black screen with flashing cursor and hang. 2) System will boot (often through a pause on the black screen with cursor) and hang with a blank purple background. On my HP pavilion laptop a strange white mist can often be seen to generate from the bottom left hand corner and move across the screen while it hangs. 3) The system will boot to login prompt and everything works fine thereon in. I am skeptical it is my new OCZ solid state HDD mostly because once I get the opportunity to login to Ubuntu I experience no hard disk or indeed other errors nearly as much as I do during the bootup. However the randomness intuitively suggests a hardware issue, perhaps because solid state hard disks are still a little in their infancy and somewhat untested. Perhaps that is a little unfair... I have done a lot of research into this and it does seem that random boot behaviour is not totally undocumented. (http://askubuntu.com/questions/178057/ubuntu-12-04-reboots-during- startup I can find other reports easily of similar behaviour). - During a debug bootup I encountered a "kernel panic" error with "ubuntu - no filesystem could mount root" error as well. + During a debug bootup I encountered a "kernel panic" error with a "no + filesystem could mount root" error as well. I have not fiddled much with the Ubuntu system files since original install so am at a loss to explain this. My partition setup is: /dev/sdb1: UUID="67c0ded9-89d1-4303-b5f2-bb335b7cb8af" TYPE="ext4" /dev/sdb2: UUID="9cea33f7-23d0-4cfe-8e3b-b3aa12424c1b" TYPE="ext4" /dev/sdb3: UUID="988d25c7-eaca-4532-a280-1e2a79df0e53" TYPE="swap" /dev/sdb5: UUID="e84e82f1-c893-4ceb-8c55-6f438db7c4ad" TYPE="ext4" My fstab file is: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices # that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5). # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0 # / was on /dev/sdb2 during installation UUID=9cea33f7-23d0-4cfe-8e3b-b3aa12424c1b / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 # /boot was on /dev/sdb1 during installation UUID=67c0ded9-89d1-4303-b5f2-bb335b7cb8af /boot ext4 defaults 0 2 # /home was on /dev/sdb5 during installation UUID=e84e82f1-c893-4ceb-8c55-6f438db7c4ad /home ext4 defaults 0 2 # swap was on /dev/sdb3 during installation UUID=988d25c7-eaca-4532-a280-1e2a79df0e53 none swap sw 0 0 Thanks, Rob ** Description changed: Hi, Have been using various ubuntu versions now for 3 years always on external HDD. Moved from regular spinning HDD to solid state OCZ vertex 3 earlier this year. I am not totally certain that the new HDD is the cause but since then I have regularly encountered very strange performance during bootup of all versions of Ubuntu I have been running. When I boot Ubuntu (currently running 12.04) 3 events may occur in roughly the same frequency (and seemingly totally uncontingent on the PC or laptop setup I choose to run the system on with my portable external HDD): 1) System will boot to black screen with flashing cursor and hang. 2) System will boot (often through a pause on the black screen with cursor) and hang with a blank purple background. On my HP pavilion laptop a strange white mist can often be seen to generate from the bottom left hand corner and move across the screen while it hangs. 3) The system will boot to login prompt and everything works fine thereon in. I am skeptical it is my new OCZ solid state HDD mostly because once I get the opportunity to login to Ubuntu I experience no hard disk or indeed other errors nearly as much as I do during the bootup. However the randomness intuitively suggests a hardware issue, perhaps because solid state hard disks are still a little in their infancy and somewhat untested. Perhaps that is a little unfair... I have done a lot of research into this and it does seem that random boot behaviour is not totally undocumented. (http://askubuntu.com/questions/178057/ubuntu-12-04-reboots-during- startup I can find other reports easily of similar behaviour). During a debug bootup I encountered a "kernel panic" error with a "no filesystem could mount root" error as well. - I have not fiddled much with the Ubuntu system files since original - install so am at a loss to explain this. + I have not fiddled much with the Ubuntu system files, at least in my + judgement, since the very original install so am at a loss to explain + this. My partition setup is: /dev/sdb1: UUID="67c0ded9-89d1-4303-b5f2-bb335b7cb8af" TYPE="ext4" /dev/sdb2: UUID="9cea33f7-23d0-4cfe-8e3b-b3aa12424c1b" TYPE="ext4" /dev/sdb3: UUID="988d25c7-eaca-4532-a280-1e2a79df0e53" TYPE="swap" /dev/sdb5: UUID="e84e82f1-c893-4ceb-8c55-6f438db7c4ad" TYPE="ext4" My fstab file is: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices # that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5). # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0 # / was on /dev/sdb2 during installation UUID=9cea33f7-23d0-4cfe-8e3b-b3aa12424c1b / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 # /boot was on /dev/sdb1 during installation UUID=67c0ded9-89d1-4303-b5f2-bb335b7cb8af /boot ext4 defaults 0 2 # /home was on /dev/sdb5 during installation UUID=e84e82f1-c893-4ceb-8c55-6f438db7c4ad /home ext4 defaults 0 2 # swap was on /dev/sdb3 during installation UUID=988d25c7-eaca-4532-a280-1e2a79df0e53 none swap sw 0 0 Thanks, Rob ** Tags added: apport-collected precise running-unity ** Description changed: Hi, Have been using various ubuntu versions now for 3 years always on external HDD. Moved from regular spinning HDD to solid state OCZ vertex 3 earlier this year. I am not totally certain that the new HDD is the cause but since then I have regularly encountered very strange performance during bootup of all versions of Ubuntu I have been running. When I boot Ubuntu (currently running 12.04) 3 events may occur in roughly the same frequency (and seemingly totally uncontingent on the PC or laptop setup I choose to run the system on with my portable external HDD): 1) System will boot to black screen with flashing cursor and hang. 2) System will boot (often through a pause on the black screen with cursor) and hang with a blank purple background. On my HP pavilion laptop a strange white mist can often be seen to generate from the bottom left hand corner and move across the screen while it hangs. 3) The system will boot to login prompt and everything works fine thereon in. I am skeptical it is my new OCZ solid state HDD mostly because once I get the opportunity to login to Ubuntu I experience no hard disk or indeed other errors nearly as much as I do during the bootup. However the randomness intuitively suggests a hardware issue, perhaps because solid state hard disks are still a little in their infancy and somewhat untested. Perhaps that is a little unfair... I have done a lot of research into this and it does seem that random boot behaviour is not totally undocumented. (http://askubuntu.com/questions/178057/ubuntu-12-04-reboots-during- startup I can find other reports easily of similar behaviour). During a debug bootup I encountered a "kernel panic" error with a "no filesystem could mount root" error as well. I have not fiddled much with the Ubuntu system files, at least in my judgement, since the very original install so am at a loss to explain this. My partition setup is: /dev/sdb1: UUID="67c0ded9-89d1-4303-b5f2-bb335b7cb8af" TYPE="ext4" /dev/sdb2: UUID="9cea33f7-23d0-4cfe-8e3b-b3aa12424c1b" TYPE="ext4" /dev/sdb3: UUID="988d25c7-eaca-4532-a280-1e2a79df0e53" TYPE="swap" /dev/sdb5: UUID="e84e82f1-c893-4ceb-8c55-6f438db7c4ad" TYPE="ext4" My fstab file is: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices # that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5). # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0 # / was on /dev/sdb2 during installation UUID=9cea33f7-23d0-4cfe-8e3b-b3aa12424c1b / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 # /boot was on /dev/sdb1 during installation UUID=67c0ded9-89d1-4303-b5f2-bb335b7cb8af /boot ext4 defaults 0 2 # /home was on /dev/sdb5 during installation UUID=e84e82f1-c893-4ceb-8c55-6f438db7c4ad /home ext4 defaults 0 2 # swap was on /dev/sdb3 during installation UUID=988d25c7-eaca-4532-a280-1e2a79df0e53 none swap sw 0 0 Thanks, Rob + --- + AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24. + ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu14 + Architecture: i386 + AudioDevicesInUse: + USER PID ACCESS COMMAND + /dev/snd/controlC2: rob 1843 F.... pulseaudio + /dev/snd/controlC1: rob 1843 F.... pulseaudio + /dev/snd/controlC0: rob 1843 F.... pulseaudio + /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: rob 1843 F...m pulseaudio + CRDA: Error: command ['iw', 'reg', 'get'] failed with exit code 1: nl80211 not found. + Card0.Amixer.info: + Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xfdff4000 irq 48' + Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC888' + Components : 'HDA:10ec0888,1028020d,00100001' + Controls : 41 + Simple ctrls : 23 + Card1.Amixer.info: + Card hw:1 'U0x46d0x81d'/'USB Device 0x46d:0x81d at usb-0000:00:1a.7-5, high speed' + Mixer name : 'USB Mixer' + Components : 'USB046d:081d' + Controls : 2 + Simple ctrls : 1 + Card1.Amixer.values: + Simple mixer control 'Mic',0 + Capabilities: cvolume cvolume-joined cswitch cswitch-joined penum + Capture channels: Mono + Limits: Capture 0 - 16 + Mono: Capture 9 [56%] [19.50dB] [on] + Card2.Amixer.info: + Card hw:2 'HDMI'/'HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfdcfc000 irq 49' + Mixer name : 'ATI R6xx HDMI' + Components : 'HDA:1002aa01,00aa0100,00100000' + Controls : 6 + Simple ctrls : 1 + Card2.Amixer.values: + Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0 + Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum + Playback channels: Mono + Mono: Playback [on] + DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 + HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=988d25c7-eaca-4532-a280-1e2a79df0e53 + InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423) + MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 530 + Package: linux (not installed) + ProcFB: 0 radeondrmfb + ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.2.0-32-generic-pae root=UUID=9cea33f7-23d0-4cfe-8e3b-b3aa12424c1b ro drm.debug=0xe plymouth:debug + ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-32.51-generic-pae 3.2.30 + RelatedPackageVersions: + linux-restricted-modules-3.2.0-32-generic-pae N/A + linux-backports-modules-3.2.0-32-generic-pae N/A + linux-firmware 1.79.1 + RfKill: + + Tags: precise running-unity + Uname: Linux 3.2.0-32-generic-pae i686 + UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) + UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo + dmi.bios.date: 12/12/2008 + dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. + dmi.bios.version: 1.0.16 + dmi.board.name: 0FM586 + dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. + dmi.chassis.type: 3 + dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. + dmi.chassis.version: OEM + dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr1.0.16:bd12/12/2008:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron530:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0FM586:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct3:cvrOEM: + dmi.product.name: Inspiron 530 + dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc. ** Attachment added: "AcpiTables.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1075844/+attachment/3426366/+files/AcpiTables.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1075844 Title: Random performance To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1075844/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
