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[Robbie Williamson <robbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you do an [ctrl-alt-f1], can you login?  Any strange behaviour? If so, what
happens if you type 'exit' and hit [Enter]?

-Robbie

P.S. [alt-f7] will get you back to your desktop.

On 09/09/2009 05:19 PM, Jarkko Lietolahti wrote:
> Hello,
>  One of the error messages was related securityfs not being mounted on
> (read-only system or something similar).
> 
> Br,
>  jarkko
> 
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 1:03 AM, Robbie Williamson <robbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:robbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     On 09/09/2009 04:56 PM, Jarkko Lietolahti wrote:
>     > Hello,
>     >  This is the bootchart with staging PPA. Some horrifying messages in
>     > during the boot though ;)
>     Those are being addressed.
> 
>     > No graphical Ubuntu progress bar,
>     On purpose.  The plan is to not need usplash (this bar) unless a
>     boot exception
>     occurs (i.e. filesystem check), and simply go to xsplash.
> 
>     > some red
>     > FAIL lines passed also, but everything seems to work.
>     Also being addressed. Thanks for the feedback!
> 
>     -Robbie
>     >
>     > br,
>     >  Jarkko
>     >
>     > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Robbie Williamson
>     > <robbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:robbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     <mailto:robbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:robbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     And if you are feeling insane...you can check out the "make it
>     >     faster bits" here:
>     >
>     >     https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-boot/+archive/staging
>     >
>     >
>     >     On 09/09/2009 07:08 AM, Scott James Remnant wrote:
>     >     > Are you running Karmic Alpha 5, or an even-more up to date
>     Karmic?
>     >     >
>     >     > Are you feeling adventurous?
>     >     >
>     >     > Then I could do with your help testing some boot updates.
>     >     >
>     >     >
>     >     > Firstly though, I would ask that if you have coursework or
>     >     homework due
>     >     > really soon; or something else that you really urgently need
>     to do
>     >     with
>     >     > your computer, that you pass this by.  While I'm pretty
>     confident
>     >     things
>     >     > will work, if they don't, Murphy's law says they won't for you.
>     >     >
>     >     > Secondly if you're using network filesystems, please don't try
>     >     this just
>     >     > yet - I'll follow up when the necessary update for those is
>     ready.
>     >     >
>     >     >
>     >     > What you need to do:
>     >     >
>     >     >  - Install bootchart and reboot.
>     >     >
>     >     >  - Check that this gives you a baseline bootchart in
>     >     /var/log/bootchart.
>     >     >
>     >     >  - Add the ubuntu-boot PPA to your APT config:
>     >     >
>     >     >       echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-boot/ppa/ubuntu
>     >     karmic main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-boot-ppa
>     >     >
>     >     >         apt-get update
>     >     >
>     >     >  - If you're running up to date Karmic, you can just
>     "upgrade" from
>     >     >    here; otherwise something like the following should work:
>     >     >
>     >     >       apt-get install anacron at avahi-daemon cron dbus hal
>     hostname \
>     >     >               module-init-tools network-manager procps rsyslog \
>     >     >               initscripts sysvinit-utils sysv-rc udev upstart
>     >     >
>     >     >  - Make sure the install/upgrade is successful.
>     >     >
>     >     >  - Reboot again.
>     >     >
>     >     >  - Obviously check that it boots, and that you get a new
>     bootchart
>     >     >    in /var/log/bootchart
>     >     >
>     >     >  - Mail *both* of these bootcharts to me (or the ubuntu-boot
>     ML if you
>     >     >    want to share)
>     >     >
>     >     > Scott
>     >     >
>     >
>     >
> 
> 


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