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blank screen on boot up

Asked by Bruce Patterson

This is by way of a cosmetic problem rather than a bug; when booting into ubuntu it presents the windows like loading logo for a bit - but then goes blank for a LONG time before finally getting to the login screen, There is still life - but it is inelegant - and a potential cause of panic for the newbie user.
My system is a cheap and cheerful viglen box with only 250MB of memory which may be why it takes so long to boot and this may be a cause of the delay / blank screen; it's inelegant!!

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Florian Diesch (diesch) said : 		#1

bootchart may be interesting here. If you install this package it creates oin every boot a .png file in /var/log/bootchart/ with some charts showing disc and CPU usage and the processes running during boot time.

I guess the delay is causes by the time the X server (who is responsible for displaying the login screen) needs to autodetect you hardware.

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Abi ^-^ (abiyasa-eka) said : 		#2

I have same problem with you, but now i use to display text during boot, if you want too

try this

go to startup manager (if you never install it, go to synaptic package manager, search word startup, and you just install it, or open terminal, type sudo apt-get install startupmanager)

After installing startup manager, you can run it in system - administration - startupmanager ..

There will be a choice, to display text during boot, choose it, and reboot

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Bruce Patterson (brucep66423) said : 		#3

Thanks for your reply guys, but they don't get to the root of my issue which is that the screen going blank during boot-up is a potential cause of panic for the newbie user who we want to see using ubuntu. "It seemed to be booting up fine but now it's gone blank - it must have gone wrong...." is the sort of response we don't want. For the record can you tell me whether this is a feature with all installations of ubuntu or just an effect of my configuration?

Does that make my issue clearer - and if so is this the right place to raise it - or should it be a bug, cosmetic though it is?

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Best Florian Diesch (diesch) said : 		#4

I think Brainstorm <http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/> is the best place for this.

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Bruce Patterson (brucep66423) said : 		#5

Seems reasonable; I just hope that it does change.