On 1 April 2014 19:49, Barry Titterton <titterton.ba...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Look for a 30 second gap in the timestamps. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
