Boot analisys and problem with Bootchart

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#1

Hi All,
i would like to analize the bootup phase of my OpenSuSE 11.0, so i installed bootchart by the OpenSuSE’s package manager.
I followed these instructions and after that i restarted the Window Manager i got this error by running bootchart:

hawake@RisingStar:~> java -jar /usr/share/java/bootchart.jar /tmp/bootchart.tgz
/tmp/bootchart.tgz not found
hawake@RisingStar:~>

Why? How can i solve this problem?
Thanks in advance,

Bye
hawake

#2

Anyone can help me?

#3

The installation process seems rather complicated.
I installed bootchart today with the help of the installer.
I did not change my menu.lst file, but I worked around it by stopping grub and adding init=/sbin/bootchartd right after the root= part.
This worked fine as it should.
After booting all I did was type bootchart as a regular user.
It is a laptop with a horribly slow harddisk (compared to my desktop with a MOBI SSD) and it shows.
This reply only allows me to put a reference to it and not upload the picture as I just found out, but I do not use my laptop as a server. Sorry.

#4

On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:56:03 GMT
hawake <hawake@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

>
> Hi All,
> i would like to analize the bootup phase of my OpenSuSE 11.0, so i
> installed bootchart by the OpenSuSE’s package manager.
> I followed ‘these instructions’
> (http://en.opensuse.org/Boot_time/Scripts) and after that i restarted
> the Window Manager i got this error by running bootchart:
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> hawake@RisingStar:~> java
> -jar /usr/share/java/bootchart.jar /tmp/bootchart.tgz /tmp/bootchart.tgz
> not found hawake@RisingStar:~>
> --------------------
>
>
> Why? How can i solve this problem?
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Bye
> hawake
>
>

Well, the technically correct but totally worthless answer would be:

The file /tmp/bootchart.tgz does not exist.

A better answer would be a question, or rather, a few questions:

  • Did you reboot?
  • Are you using GNOME? The script (as written) ONLY works properly with GNOME
    desktop environment.
  • Are you using ‘autologin’? The script (as written) ONLY works when the
    GNOME greeter login screen is launched during startup, otherwise it will
    sleep forever.

Loni

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