theheadlessrabbit's Journal: Am I the only person having troubble with Ubuntu 7.10

I reciently upgraded my laptop from feisty fawn to Ubuntu 7.10. 'Gutsy Gibbon' I believe.

The positive reviews had me really psyched about about the upgrade.

But I have been having several problems. the main one is the massave slowdown. my boot time is 6 minutes. shutting down takes 4 minutes. opening/closing windows takes several seconds, and some things (like changing my pasword) just go on forever.

When I boot up the WinXP partition, my boot time is less than 30 seconds, why is Ubuntu performing so much more slowly?

my laptop is a fugitsu.
the sticer on my laptop, and windows XP tells me i have a AMD Semphron processor, Ubuntu tell sme I have an Athelon 64-bit processor.
1 gb ram, 100 Gb HD divided into 4 partitons (10 gig each for ubuntu and xp, 2 gig swap partition, and the rest is shared)
and a 64 meg ATI radion xpress 1150 videocard (acording to windows)

the main reason i made the switch is because i heard of the dramaticaly improved boot time, and becase of work, I am switching between the OS's quite often.

Should I stick it out with 7.10 and see if i can do any tinkering, or jut go back to feisty?

I am a linux noob, by the way. my reason for switching was because my new laptop came with the vista virus

Suggestions

[Qzukk]

First guess: something is starting that tries to connect to the internet and waits until it times out to give up. During boot-up, it's most likely something trying to resolve your hostname. If you remember what you named the computer when you installed (if you don't remember, run "hostname", though it's typically printed on the shell prompt by default) look in /etc/hosts and see if that's included in there. If not, add it to the end of the 127.0.0.1 line (after "localhost") ie:

127.0.0.1 localhost localho

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[theheadlessrabbit]

thank you for the suggestions.

I was worried a Linux zealot would flame me for not saying "linux is better in every way, don't point out bugs or i'll kill ya"

this is a fairly fresh install of both OSes, aside from some drivers, windows games and graphics programs, nothing has been installed or set up.

I don't do any complicated networking stuff, other than connecting to a wireless network or plugging in a LAN cable. The only shared folders on windows are the default ones in 'my documents'.

I don't know much a

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[theheadlessrabbit]

my ATI card's driver must be buggy. I can't see a loading screen at all. after selecting ubuntu, i get 3 lines of info telling me what is loading, then the font changes, and a split second later, the screen goes black for 5 minutes, then it flickers in different shades of black (or very dark grey) right before the ubuntu wallpaper comes up, and everything is fine after that. it just takes 5 minutes to get to that point.

Also, when i check the log file for fsck, it informs me that fsch was running every s

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[Qzukk]

You don't want to cancel fsck while it's working, but if it's working quickly, then it's just doing the normal job of checking the drives, not actually fixing problems (which takes much longer).

As for changing the boot screen to actually show you what it's doing, you'll need to check the ubuntu docs for that, but there should be something you can press to do it. Google suggests that there's a "quiet" setting in grub's menu.lst that if you take it out, it will show you the full boot process, but that was fo