On 31/03/14 19:55, Martin Ward wrote:
On 31/03/14 17:11, Barry Titterton wrote:
The problem is when I start the machine, after the BIOS text screen, the
screen now goes black with only the following two lines of text on the
screen:-
Ubuntu 13.10 <name> tty1
<name> login:
(Where <name> is the ID of the machine)
I then wait for approx 30 seconds, without touching the keyboard, and
the machine will eventually go to the normal log-in screen. I can then
log-in to Unity as normal, and everything works fine.
It sounds like some operation is timing out: eg detecting hardware,
mounting a drive or something.
The log file (usually /var/log/messages) should tell you where
in the boot process the pause occurred and which operation timed out.
Hi Martin,
Google tells me that Ubuntu stopped using /var/log/messages around about
11.04, it now dumps everything into syslog. I cannot see anything
obvious in syslog, but I do not know how to 'read' syslog so I could
easily be missing something relevant.
Barry
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