Long delay until I get the KDE login screen

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Like so many others here, I have an nVidia card (GeForce 9400 GT) and have experienced driver problems after the upgrade. I did an in-place upgrade from 10.10 to 11.04 and it sporadically worked (with the previous kernel only) so I finally decided to install 11.04 from scratch. I did not install the proprietary driver from nVidia so I assume Kubuntu's version of the proprietary nVidia driver (?) is what's installed now and everything seems to be working OK. nVidia X Server Settings reports the driver version as 270.41.06.

However, when I reboot the machine, there's about a 3 minute delay until I get to the KDE login splash screen. Prior to that, all I see is blue. I don't reboot often so troubleshooting this is going to be a pain.

Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this delay and if so, have you figured out the fix yet?

Thanks!

[ferma]

Re: Long delay until I get the KDE login screen

Please enter your DVD drive details?

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Re: Long delay until I get the KDE login screen

LITE-ON DVDRW LH-20A1P

[Spadge]

Re: Long delay until I get the KDE login screen

Reboot, open a terminal and type: dmesg

Copy and paste what it says here so we can work out what's taking it so long.

And btw, FermA talks sense. When I had this problem it was caused by the DVD drive.

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Re: Long delay until I get the KDE login screen

At least it's repeatable Took just a tad over 3 minutes again. Here's a paste of dmesg right after rebooting:

dmesg.txt file attached.

Hope it helps!

[Spadge]

Re: Long delay until I get the KDE login screen

I'm going out on a limb here and pointing the finger at your nvidia drivers.

Do you really need vesafb if you're using the nvidia drivers?

I get something like that if I do a cold start sometimes, but it goes away when I reboot from the start menu.

When it happens to me the whole graphics system runs like a three legged dog. Still, it doesn't take 4 minutes to boot.

[ferma]

Re: Long delay until I get the KDE login screen

12 seconds it's not long, dmesg is really unusefull here.
Everything is normal in dmesg

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Re: Long delay until I get the KDE login screen

I'm not sure what you mean by 12 seconds FermA. I timed it and it's about 3 minutes & 15 seconds until the login screen comes up.

And Spadge, I'd remove vesafb if I knew how. Nope, don't need it. My nvidia driver could be whacked, but it seems to be working normally after I log in ...

Hmmm ....

Thanks so far guys!

[dibl]

Re: Long delay until I get the KDE login screen

There is some useful information on the topic here: http://idyllictux.wordpress.com/

although I do not see guidance to remove the uvesafb. But, perhaps it was not correctly/fully installed in the first place. The last new Kubuntu installation I put on hardware with Nvidia (10.04) booted much faster and smoother after I followed that guidance to install the uvesafb.

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Re: Long delay until I get the KDE login screen

Well this is interesting (see attached). What does it mean "This driver is activated but not currently in use." I guess obviously it's not being used!?

So how do I check what driver I'm actually using?

[dibl]

Re: Long delay until I get the KDE login screen

Try this in a terminal

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install glxgears

glxgears

what do you see?

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Re: Long delay until I get the KDE login screen

I see 3 gears spinning, blue/red/green.

[dibl]

Re: Long delay until I get the KDE login screen

Well, it looks like jockey-kde is telling lies.

[oshunluvr]

Re: Long delay until I get the KDE login screen

Open a terminal and type dkms status and post the results.

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Re: Long delay until I get the KDE login screen

Here it is:

footer@kubuntu64:/etc/default$ dkms status
nvidia-current, 270.41.06, 2.6.38-8-generic, x86_64: installed 
nvidia-173, 173.14.30, 2.6.38-8-generic, x86_64: installed