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Console output through plymouth-text
During plymouth-text (Proprietary Nvidia ), my "kubuntu 13.04 ..." splash screen suddenly shows bootmessages near the end of the bootup. Messages like "Daemon xxx loading [Done]".
Why are these ...
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Why are there start 'S' symlinks in rc0.d (shutdown) and rc6.d (reboot)?
Start 'S' symlinks in shutdown and restart runlevels?
Why are there 'S00-S99' start symlinks in rc0.d and rc6.d? Ubuntu 13.04 directory listing:
$ ls -l /etc/init.d/rc6.d
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root ...
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Why does my PC shut down on boot?
Ubuntu 12.04.
So Ubuntu was working perfectly. I wanted to restart (Only because it was lagging a little) my PC, but weridly, it shutdown perfectly, but then didn't do the starting up part. So I ...
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Need to know what program is writing to the console on start, logout and shutdown
I would like to know what program is responsible for writing messages to the console during the start, logout and shutdown process. What I'm referring to is that black console that comes out and spews ...
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How do I make Ubuntu “power loss proof”?
I like to run a system unattended for every day 'kiosk' use.
However, the system may be powered off anytime without someone doing a proper shutdown before. By default, Ubuntu is not expected to be ...
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Three Ubuntu 12.04 + Xfce problems [duplicate]
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My computer boots to a black screen, what options do I have to fix it?
sorry to bother you, but I wanted to set up a minimal Ubuntu 12.04 with minimal Xfce and probably ...
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Overheat Error when shutdown from ubuntu os [duplicate]
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HP Pavilion g6 1190sm laptop has overheat/hibernation/graphics issues
I am running Windows 7 OS and Ubuntu OS on the same machine my machine have the following ...
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How to avoid shutdown freeze on a MAc with Ubuntu 12.04?
I just installed my old MacBook white with a fresh Ubuntu 12.04 as single OS on the machine, all runs pretty good, but every time I shut it down or restart the machine gets stuck in the "ubuntu ....." ...
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Will computer being shut down due to power failure affect my system files, or speed in any way? [duplicate]
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How resilient is Ubuntu to repeated “power-off” shutdowns?
I've asked before as well but need to confirm again, in my country there are a lot of electricity ...
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Computer is randomly shutting down. What could be?
I'm having some problems, my computer is shutting down at random intervals, but from today it started to shut off rigth after the login screen.
It's a Toshiba Laptop. I thought it was the cpu ...
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Auto Power On and Off
I have a old laptop set up as a media server with Ubuntu 12.04 on it. I was wondering whether it was possible to set a time for it to automatically turn off at night and then in the morning ...
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ubuntu shutdown command doesn't shutdown properly [closed]
I think I have problem with shutdown command. Using Ubuntu 11.10.
The shutdown command works and computer shuts down, but when I boot I get the following warning:
* * * * * Warning: System BOOT ...
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How can I improve performance and user experience in 11.10 (boot + shutdown time, graphics, …)
I've been dual-booting with Ubuntu and Windows since Ubuntu 9.04. This was the first time I used Ubuntu and was really happy with it. The boot and shutdown time was very nice and much shorter than on ...
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Slow startup on a Dell Inspiron 1012
Ubuntu11.10 is very slow to start up and shutdown comparing with ubuntu 11.04. I am using ubuntu 11.10 on a mini Dell Inspiron 1012 (N450 atom)
I only have one program in the startup applications and ...
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How to configure Grub to show only splash-screen and error messages during boot and shutdown?
I want to know where do I configure grub boot commands and commands called by lxsession-logout.
I wish to make splash screen and only error output on both startup and shutdown/reboot.
Startup, as far ...
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Why does Ubuntu 11.10 start and shut down so slowly?
Ubuntu's always been very fast on my computer. I have 3GB RAM, and previous versions booted in under 40s and shut down in under 5s. Most recently, Natty took 40s to boot and only 4s to shut down. ...
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USB stick not avaliable after rebooting from Live session
Ive noticed a really annoying behaviour in Ubuntu: whenever I restart or shutdown the PC from a Live session, the USB stick becomes unavaliable when it reboots/turns on (as if the "safe removal" ...
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How do I find the last logged system boot and shutdown times?
I'm a Rails developer working on a web application on Ubuntu Server 10.04. Due to internal requirements, I was asked to find the last 10 system boot and shutdown times... I have no clue where to find ...
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Any way to clean up the look of the shutdown/logout/restart process?
So, I've given up trying to configure my system (ubuntu 10.10, open source ATI drivers) to shutdown/logout/restart gracefully. Whenever I do any of the three, all I get is an ugly ubuntu logo with ...
