On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 09:28:08PM +0100, Peter Flynn wrote: > On 05/19/2017 01:46 PM, Chris Green wrote: > > I just want the warning message in the GUI to appear when it *does* > > run so that I won't think something has gone wrong and hung the > > system boot process. > > This and several related pauses during boot have been the subject of > repeated questions over many years. > > I think part of the problem is that they are not seen by many developers > and testers [rightly] using fast, modern machines. On older and slower > machines it is a serious problem, especially if you are trying to > convert a new user. > Mine is a fast modern machine but it still takes a *long* time for fsck to check a 3Tb disk drive - like 20 or 30 minutes.
> Long pauses and blank screens are VERY frequent during boot on old > machines. It would be very useful if this could be avoided -- even a > text-only message explaining what it's doing would help. > -- Chris Green -- xubuntu-users mailing list xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users
