Displays terminal messages during boot.

Tes · **Joined:** Thu Dec 25, 2008 8:14 pm **Posts:** 14

kieonsegg wrote:

No no no. It boots fine. It takes about a minute and a half. I see the eeebuntu spash screen for a bit, then i see the console messages which are somewhat along the lines of:

Updating System Clock [OK]

etc...

How long does it take you to boot?

From pressing the Power button to login window? About 55 seconds on my 901go.

Quote:

Im not surre if it is normal to see what im seeing after the eeebuntu splash screen. But i did see these console messages when running ububuntu 8.04 but that was only for the first reboot of the system.

If you have the splash screen enabled, you shouldn't see any console messages unless something is wrong or the system is performing a filesystem check. What is the last message in the ouput before the 'File not found' error message?

Tes

kieonsegg · **Joined:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 6:57 pm **Posts:** 18

Tes wrote:

kieonsegg wrote:

No no no. It boots fine. It takes about a minute and a half. I see the eeebuntu spash screen for a bit, then i see the console messages which are somewhat along the lines of:

Updating System Clock [OK]

etc...

How long does it take you to boot?

From pressing the Power button to login window? About 55 seconds on my 901go.

Quote:

Im not surre if it is normal to see what im seeing after the eeebuntu splash screen. But i did see these console messages when running ububuntu 8.04 but that was only for the first reboot of the system.

If you have the splash screen enabled, you shouldn't see any console messages unless something is wrong or the system is performing a filesystem check. What is the last message in the ouput before the 'File not found' error message?

Tes

I dont get a file not found error. I see the splash screen then it goes through about 50 checks for things like system clock and if approved it says [OK].
They all go out fine. But before the console messages like this i get about 2 lines determining if something is write throughable or something along those lines. Is something wrong with my system?

luigidk · **Posted:** Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:12 am

Tes's fix worked !

Now I am not seeing the terminal messages during boot - and my boot time does seem to be faster.

Thanks Tes!

What is the actual problem that re'moving' the S20HDDTemp(?) file fixed?

Was this created with eeebuntu V2? Or with eee-control ???

Tes · **Joined:** Thu Dec 25, 2008 8:14 pm **Posts:** 14

luigidk wrote:

Tes's fix worked !

Now I am not seeing the terminal messages during boot - and my boot time does seem to be faster.

Thanks Tes!

What is the actual problem that re'moving' the S20HDDTemp(?) file fixed?

Was this created with eeebuntu V2? Or with eee-control ???

If I understand it right, the hddtemp-daemon monitors the temperature of all hardisks in the system. Most, if not all, current drives have a built in temperature sensor that can be accessed using SMART. It seems as if the SSD has no such sensor (quite pointless for an SSD of this size) and doesn't even implement the command to access it. It also doesn't seem to return a failure if that command is tried. From the output it seems as if the command hangs the disk until a timeout occurs, the disk is reset and everything is fine from then on.

I don't think it's something eeebuntu caused but a feature of Ubuntu 8.10 that doesn't work on an eeepc with SSD.

With my little hack you still get an error during shutdown when the system wants to kill the hddtemp-daemon. I think this can be safely ignored.

Tes

Tes · **Joined:** Thu Dec 25, 2008 8:14 pm **Posts:** 14

Quote:

I dont get a file not found error. I see the splash screen then it goes through about 50 checks for things like system clock and if approved it says [OK].

That's the normal boot process usually hidden by the splash screen. The splash screen should not disappear though, it only goes away if there is an error. To debug that, I will need to know what's on the screen just as the splash screen went away. Are you able to take a photo of it and attach it to a posting? A cell phone camera would be good enough if the result is readable.

Quote:

They all go out fine. But before the console messages like this i get about 2 lines determining if something is write throughable or something along those lines. Is something wrong with my system?

I don't think you have a hardware issue, more likely a typo somewhere. Do you have an SD card in the reader?

Tes

kieonsegg · **Joined:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 6:57 pm **Posts:** 18

Tes wrote:

Quote:

I dont get a file not found error. I see the splash screen then it goes through about 50 checks for things like system clock and if approved it says [OK].

That's the normal boot process usually hidden by the splash screen. The splash screen should not disappear though, it only goes away if there is an error. To debug that, I will need to know what's on the screen just as the splash screen went away. Are you able to take a photo of it and attach it to a posting? A cell phone camera would be good enough if the result is readable.

Quote:

They all go out fine. But before the console messages like this i get about 2 lines determining if something is write throughable or something along those lines. Is something wrong with my system?

I don't think you have a hardware issue, more likely a typo somewhere. Do you have an SD card in the reader?

Tes

K right after the splash screen, there are 2 lines saying
"assuming drive sdb is write -throught"
something along those lines..
If this is not enough info i will take a video or picture.
Yes i do have an sd card in the slot.

Tes · **Joined:** Thu Dec 25, 2008 8:14 pm **Posts:** 14

kieonsegg wrote:

K right after the splash screen, there are 2 lines saying
"assuming drive sdb is write -throught"
something along those lines..
If this is not enough info i will take a video or picture.
Yes i do have an sd card in the slot.

That's not an error message, that's just the system telling you its assumptions about the cache strategy for the SD card.

It might be more helpful to disable the splash screen altogether, see where the boot process pauses, fix that and then enable splash again if so desired.

Tes

kieonsegg · **Joined:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 6:57 pm **Posts:** 18

Tes wrote:

kieonsegg wrote:

K right after the splash screen, there are 2 lines saying
"assuming drive sdb is write -throught"
something along those lines..
If this is not enough info i will take a video or picture.
Yes i do have an sd card in the slot.

That's not an error message, that's just the system telling you its assumptions about the cache strategy for the SD card.

It might be more helpful to disable the splash screen altogether, see where the boot process pauses, fix that and then enable splash again if so desired.

Tes

Ok thanks

Im not going to try that just yet. Because i might be selling the 701 and getting the 1000ha with windows.

jsdey · **Joined:** Mon Dec 22, 2008 11:48 pm **Posts:** 16

I have been experiencing the same problems with my eeepc 1000 2gb. (I was fooling around this morning and tried to use chkconfig to turn off the hddtemp daemon. I could turn it on but not off. I thought this might be a less kludgy approach. )

Before I disable the daemon, however, I would like to know that it has no function for the ssd? Any comment would be appreciated. Thanks.

Steve · **Posted:** Fri Jan 02, 2009 8:41 pm

Could someone try to remove the sensors library and see if that works so we can narrow the possible causes?

terminal:

Code:

#sudo apt-get remove libsensors3

Reboot and post the results.

libsensors library is used for the sensors applet that you can add to the panel.

Steve.

jsdey · **Joined:** Mon Dec 22, 2008 11:48 pm **Posts:** 16

Can anyone tell me what hddtemp does? Does it work for SSD? Thanks

tempest_prime · **Joined:** Sat Jan 03, 2009 10:12 pm **Posts:** 5

There's a much simpler way to fix the issue. Just search for hddtemp in the synaptic package manager and remove it. Alternatively, you could issue the following command from a terminal:

Code:

sudo apt-get remove hddtemp

The package is pointless on an SSD-equipped EEE as the SSD has no temperature sensor. For the curious, here is the package description from synaptic:

Quote:

hard drive temperature monitoring utility
The hddtemp program monitors and reports the temperature of PATA, SATA
or SCSI hard drives by reading Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting
Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) information on drives that support this feature.

whenthesunshines · **Joined:** Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:57 pm **Posts:** 10

Cheers t_p!! I was getting this problem and was about to try out Tes's fix when I spotted your post.
Works great and my eeePC1000 now boots much clean and much faster.

Many thanks.

tempest_prime · **Joined:** Sat Jan 03, 2009 10:12 pm **Posts:** 5

Glad I could help!

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