I can't answer that one; sorry.  I just know it's fixed inMint 10, cause it
came up on my system the other day, took like maybe 3 to 5 minutes at the
most. Then it finished booting. I tried Ubuntu 10.10, before Mint 10 RC came
out. If I'm not mistaken Ubuntu still has the same problem.lol Mint's just
an awsome distro, you can't do better than mint.

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Andreas Jürgens <<email address hidden>
> wrote:

> Thanks for the answer and why not in Mint 9, because a lot of users will
> work with Mint 9 till ending support in 2013?
>
> I am one of it. ;)
>
> --
> fsck progress stalls at boot, plymouthd/mountall eats CPU
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/571707
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> of a duplicate bug (606588).
>
> Status in The Linux Mint Distribution: New
> Status in “mountall” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
> Status in “plymouth” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
> Status in “mountall” source package in Lucid: Fix Released
> Status in “plymouth” source package in Lucid: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> PROBLEM
>
> When a disk check is performed, the progress stalls somewhere around 70%
> and will then take a very long time finishing the remaining percent (10
> minutes or more).
>
> PATCH
>
> Patch for mountall has now been pushed as an update for Lucid, if you are
> still seeing this problem, make sure you have mountall 2.15 installed before
> commenting/reporting a new bug.
>
> [Earlier patch comments:]
> Tero Mononen has published a patch for Bug #553745 which applies to the
> issue described here as well (see
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/553745/comments/76and
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/553745/comments/77)
>
> I have created corresponding packages which are available through my PPA:
> https://launchpad.net/~arand/+archive/unstable
>
> !!!Do note that this is an unofficial, untested, preliminary patch!!!
> However testing and feedback is welcome, please especially report if there
> are ANY (new) problems seen when using the patched version.
>
> TEST CASE:
>
> (sudo aptitude install bootchart)
> sudo touch /forcefsck && sudo reboot
>
> POSSIBLE TEMPORARY WORKAROUNDS
>
> 1. Removing "quiet" and "splash" from the kernel boot line
>
> 2. When the progress has stalled, switch away from the splash screen using
> the left arrowkey (presumably any arrowkey works).
>
> * Both these approaches speeds up the boot process to ~1 minute instead.
>
> OBSERVATIONS
>
> The fsck message "(...) non-contiguous (...)" Which I assume indicates the
> end of the fsck, is printed in the Virtual Terminal ("outside" plymouth) at
> around 70% + ~10-20 seconds.
>
> Disk activity is null from this point on (presumed end of fsck above).
>
> Bootchart crashes if trying to catch the whole boot at once with plymouth
> (at least for my 1h boot).
>
> This problem seems to occur in both plymouthd and mountall,
> semi-simultaneously:
> If you are in the plymouth screen, plymouthd is the cpu-gobbler, if you
> switch away from it using the arrow keys, mountall instead takes over the
> cpu-eating.
>
> #####
>
> ORIGINAL REPORT
>
> Binary package hint: mountall
>
> On my system when fsck runs at boot plymouth % completion count goes up
> quickly (<10 seconds) up to about 80% and then slows down considerably: the
> complete fsck of my 125GB HD, 30% full takes more than 5 minutes.
>
> While this goes on the text VTs are all completely blank: just a blinking
> cursor.
>
> An fsck from a recovery disk completes in ~10 seconds so it doesn't look
> like "fsck just being slow".
>
> This slowdown was *not* happening on 2010-04-14 with the PPA described by
> this comment:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/554737/comments/25
>
> The fix in the PPA is now in the mainline lucid but somewhere in between
> then and today (2010-04-29) something introduced this slowdown.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> Package: mountall 2.14
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
> NonfreeKernelModules: wl
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Thu Apr 29 15:38:56 2010
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100317.1)
> ProcEnviron:
>  LANGUAGE=en_IE:en_GB:en
>  PATH=(custom, user)
>  LANG=en_IE.utf8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: mountall
>
>
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