Mathieu, you are correct, upstart makes it hard to know what's hanging since it's happening in parrallel in a non deterministic fashion, and it's not like I can run ps at that time.
I originally filed this against upstart, because quite franlky upstart does not make it easy to see what the problem is. I however think the problem is with the network-manager init script. I think when I had auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp It would sometimes bring try to bring up eth0 when it wasn't plugged in, and hang. Note that there are 5 pictures: boot with --debug http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37077999/100_upstart_picts.jpg http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37078016/101_upstart_picts.jpg boot without --debug http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37095414/StallPict1a.jpg http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37095417/StallPict1b.jpg boot that happened not to hang: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37095427/NonStall.jpg I very seldom boot my laptop, especially now that it randomly does not complete booting, and honestly I can't tell for sure which process hangs upstart but it looks like it's network-manager -- upstart randomly stalls boot on network-manager? https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/499361 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
