On Monday 19 Apr 2010 16:31:10 Barry Drake wrote: > Hi there .... > > Wondered if anyone has any thoughts on this. I'm running Lucid on a > Dell Inspiron Mini v10. Every 10th or so re-boot, it seems to carry out > a forced disk check. I don't know if it's relevant, but it has an SSD > drive which I formatted ext2 on the advice on an Ubuntu forum as ext2 is > faster than ext3 and less write-intensive so more appropriate for an SSD. > > Dring the forced check, the original Ubuntu splash screen was counting > up to around 71% and freezing. Altering grub to remove "quiet splash" > showed that the boot process was getting beyond fsck and displaying a > further couple of lines. I omitted to note down what these said. I > tried including GRB_CMDLINE_LINUX="noapic". This did not help. I > currently have GRB_CMDLINE_LINUX="noapic, nolapic, noapci" in > /etc/default/grub (followed by update-grub), and the last couple of > times the disk check has been observed, it has completed OK. > > fsck was forced with the comment "disk not unmounted cleanly". I don't > know why this happens as I've done a normal shutdown on every occasion > so far. Any thoughts?
Take a look at this bug and its duplicates on launchpad https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/554737 . -- Registered Linux User #466407 http://counter.li.org -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
