ubuntu slow startup time - modprobe?

Question

I have setup my laptop with Ubuntu 11.04. I bought a fresh SSD, and expected the startup time at <30 seconds but it takes about 3-5 minutes.

I have taken a snapshop using bootchart but I don't know exactly how to read it:

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For me, it looks like modprobe is running in some sort of timeout - but where can I check this?

The boot from dmesg:

http://pastie.org/1937104

i was very happy to see my own post about this 1 year later since i reinstalled ubuntu and then i searched for "slow startup time ubuntu modprobe" i did not remember this specific fix horray for superuser! — Andreas Petersson, Sep 9 '12 at 19:49

Mat · Answer 1 · 2011-05-21 07:35:57Z

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Have a look at this bug report: tpm_tis 00:0a: tpm_transmit: tpm_send: error -62 (for Fedora, but since it's kernel related could apply to Ubuntu).

The workaround for the issue seems to be to add

tpm_tis.interrupts=0

to the kernel command line.

(If that doesn't work for you, make sure you have the latest update of the Ubuntu kernel installed.)

answered May 21 '11 at 7:35

Mat

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That did not work.. – Andreas Petersson May 21 '11 at 10:41

do you have the latest ubuntu kernel? did the dmesg output change at all? – Mat May 21 '11 at 10:42

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Andreas Petersson · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-21 19:35:35Z

apparently one driver (tpm_tis) was blocking the startup. i tried editing /etc/default/grub

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash tpm_tis.interrupts=0"

but this did not work, dmesg did the same output.

but then i disabled the module tpm_tis alltogether by adding

blacklist tpm_tis

to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf this pushed startup down to 17s after bios - 31 seconds from cold start

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