Ubuntu (Hangs on boot)

[jr0sco]

Hi All,

My system hangs at boot time when loading hardware drivers for about a minute.

It hangs here:

dmesg

[    8.196035] udevd version 124 started
[    8.533233] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[    8.535101] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
[    8.561394] iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0
[    8.574443] iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.03 (30-Apr-2008)
[    8.574550] iTCO_wdt: Found a ICH7 or ICH7R TCO device (Version=2, TCOBASE=0x0860)
[    8.574682] iTCO_wdt: initialized. heartbeat=30 sec (nowayout=0)
[    8.601896] intel_rng: Firmware space is locked read-only. If you can't or
[    8.601897] intel_rng: don't want to disable this in firmware setup, and if
[    8.601898] intel_rng: you are certain that your system has a functional
[    8.601899] intel_rng: RNG, try using the 'no_fwh_detect' option.
[    8.654334] HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[    8.654410] HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: setting latency timer to 64
[    8.733164] hda_codec: Unknown model for ALC883, trying auto-probe from BIOS...
[    8.754723] input: Power Button (FF) as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input2
[    8.880114] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
[    8.880225] input: Power Button (CM) as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/input3
[    8.960678] parport_pc 00:07: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
[    8.960827] parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 5, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EPP,ECP,DMA]
[    9.020113] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
[    9.047706] ACPI Exception (video-1630): AE_NOT_FOUND, Evaluating _DOD [20080609]
[    9.047841] input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A08:00/device:1d/input/input4
[    9.155677] ACPI: Video Device [GFX0] (multi-head: no  rom: yes  post: no)

HANGS HERE (For about 1-2 minutes)

Seems like the video driver is slowing down the boot process.

lspci Output

#lspci | grep 'VGA'
#00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)

Linux Kernel - 2.6.27-7-server
Distro - Ubuntu 8.10

Wondering if anyone has seen this problem before or has any ideas. I'm not able to upgrade my distro and the system was built using mondo.

Cheers

JC

[JosePF]

Hi,
Please, could you report:
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log?

Regards

[jr0sco]

Please, could you report:
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log?

Yes I can. I have attached it in a zip file

Cheers

JC

[JosePF]

Hi,
i have seen xorg log and no errors, only some warnings.

Please report:
cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
cat /var/log/syslog

Regards

[jr0sco]

Hi,

Sorry for the late reply I was away for the weekend

I have attached my xorg.conf, syslog and also message files in the attachment

Cheers

JC

[JosePF]

Hi,
please could you report file again?
I can not extract file.
Please use rar or another one, but format that upload i cant open.

unp log.zip
Archive: log.zip
skipping: messages need PK compat. v6.3 (can do v4.6)
skipping: syslog need PK compat. v6.3 (can do v4.6)
skipping: xorg.conf need PK compat. v6.3 (can do v4.6)

7z x log.zip

7-Zip 9.04 beta Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Igor Pavlov 2009-05-30
p7zip Version 9.04 (locale=es_ES.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,2 CPUs)

Processing archive: log.zip

Extracting messages Unsupported Method
Extracting syslog Unsupported Method
Extracting xorg.conf Unsupported Method

Sub items Errors: 3

I dont know if i should open a new thread about this problem

Thanks
Regards

[Segfault]

You are getting broken V_BIOS error.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=18436

[jr0sco]

Hope this works. Its compressed with bzip2, I used 7zip to compress it and get the correct size so I could upload it here

Cheers

JC

[JosePF]

Hi,
Your xorg.conf is rare.
Ill try:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg or
1)go to pseudoterminal1 with Ctl+Alt+F1 and login
2)sudo service gdm stop (if output some error next command, kill xsever, X or gdm with kill -9 command)
3)sudo X -configure
4)[optional] To know if new configuration runs ok: X -config /root/xorg.conf.new
If no errors, ctl+c
5)sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/xorg.conf.bak
6) sudo mv /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
7) sudo service gdm start.If all is ok, desktop is showed again.

Then restart and test time to boot.

Regards

[jr0sco]

JosePF I tried both steps but had no success. I updated the xorg.conf with the new one built and X is still working. It would be helpful if I could get more info output during boot time to get more of an idea whats is actually happening while loading hardware drivers.

Do know of anyways to display useful debugging output during boot time. All I have done is remove "quiet" from the kernel boot argument.

Cheers

JC