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Questions about the time period or time length of the booting process in Ubuntu.

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At boot, networking.service is incredibly slow (5 minutes) on Ubuntu 16.10

According to systemd-analyze blame, networking-service is taking over 5 minutes to start at boot: Why is this happening and how can I fix it?
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How to speed up Boot Time in Ubuntu 18.04

I am using Ubuntu 18.04 I am confused with quiet splash adding nomodeset something like this.. What is the best option to boost the boot up time? My main aim is to reduce the boot time with in the ...
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How can I improve my boot time? (bootchart and dmesg output included)

I've noticed that my boot time lately has been unusually slow. I am running 12.04 a laptop with a 2.40GHz CPU and 4GB of RAM. I've run bootchart and dmesg, but I'm not sure how to use them to address ...
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Unity takes ages to start after log in

After I upgraded to 12.04 from 11.10,Unity has started taking too long to start. Booting from zero to BURG takes about 3 sec,BURG to login screen takes about 5-7sec...n then login screen to unity ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 long boot time

I update my ubuntu recenly to 20.04. now it takes a long time to boot. I have I5 CPU and 8G RAM. Here the cmd systemd-analyze blame output: 1min 30.094s nmbd.service ...
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How do I analyze my bootchart in order to improve boot time?

I use Ubuntu 11.10. I have boot-chart installed but I have no clue on how to use it. Someone help me and others like me out there. How to find out what should not be running or something like that ?...
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Really high kernel boot time

My system boot time suddenly became very high. I've been dual booting Kubuntu and Win10 for quite some times. The root partition is on ssd. I recently increased my swap size using live usb and then ...
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Reduce boot time between grub menu and login screen

I use Ubuntu 14.04 LTS version which used to boot fast at beginning but not i loads very slow. I searched for this but can't find suitable answers. so i want to reduce my boot time which is now ...
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How to delay the start of an application during startup to reduce total booting time?

I have an application installed on my Samsung NP-RV509 which makes the Fn keys work properly. I have determined that the startup of this application is the reason for almost 30 extra seconds of ...
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Slow boot time on Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS

I've just installed Ubuntu on a new build PC and I'm consistently experiencing long boot times of well over 2 minutes. I saw a lot of advice to use systemd-analyze, but wasn't sure how to interpret it ...
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I've got a loooong boot time again! This time it's crazily long! +10 min [duplicate]

This has become my nightmare with Ubuntu... since I'm using it (version 14.x). Everything works slick a couple of weeks after a fresh installation but I have no idea what happens in between so that ...
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Boot time Ubuntu 16.04 [duplicate]

I have an HP Laptop with Ubuntu 16.04 installed (dual boot with Windows 10). The system takes over 1m to boot, as you can see from the following: $ systemd-analyze time && systemd-analyze ...
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Slow boot due to some IO wait

I would like to improve boot time of my system now it takes almost minute. The system boots from SSD. According to bootchart the system waits for something for at least 30 seconds and does almost ...
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Decrease boot-up time with e4rat

I found an article on howtogeek - how to reduce boot time using e4rat. But seems that article is very old and made for Ubuntu 11.04 Since then lot of new Ubuntu versions came and now we have Ubuntu ...
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Long boot time after dual-boot (now removed) with Debian

Distribution: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Minimal) with i3 as window manager. Output of systemd-analyze: Startup finished in 11.412s (kernel) + 3min 2.797s (userspace) = 3min 14.209s Output of systemd-...
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How to get the boot time of Ubuntu?

I am trying to find the boot time of Ubuntu. The following tells me that my last reboot took 1 minutes 39 second. $ last reboot reboot system boot 3.8.0-29-generic Wed Jan 8 14:55 - 16:35 (01:...
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Slow boot of (X)Ubuntu 19.10 on HP Laptop

I recently bought a new HP Laptop (HP 830 G6) and installed Xubuntu 19.10 with full disk encryption (LUKS). I noticed slow startup times, but not from decryption of the disk, but more until I actually ...
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Slow boot on Asus ROG GL552vw

My Asus ROG GL552vw has a very slow boot of Ubuntu 16.04 desktop. I'm booting single boot. nomodeset doesn't work. I've attached some things with the post showing systemd-analyze time, etc. It takes ...
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How to mount a Samba share at boot time? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Proper fstab entry to mount a samba share on boot? How to add samba share to fstab to ensure mounting at boot time?
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Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS slow boot after installing Kali Linux (Triple Boot)

I had Ubuntu 18.04.3 dual boot with Windows 10 (Windows is on 2nd drive) and never had a issue with slow booting time. After installing Kali Linux on the same drive where Ubuntu is installed, Ubuntu ...
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Ubuntu is booting very slowly after dual boot with Kali

When I was using only Ubuntu 15.10, the boot time was very fast, it was about 15-20 seconds. Recently I installed Kali-Linux rolling edition along side Ubuntu 15.10. Afterwards the boot time of ...
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Ubuntu's GRUB bootloader not getting detected after drive change

I had HDD where I had Ubuntu 18.04 installed and I installed Ubuntu 19.10 on M2 ssd. everything was working perfectly. I planned to replace HDD with another m.2 SSD. I did. after that when i booted my ...
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How to make Kubuntu boot faster?

The time after the unit is active or started is printed after the "@" character. The time the unit takes to start is printed after the "+" character. graphical.target @2min 9.351s └─multi-user.target ...
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compressed block device

I wanted to experiment with combining bcache and a compressed block device on a hdd and seeing if this will speedup the boot time. Are there any means of compressing a block device at the block level? ...
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Long boot time, Snap not working, Internet not working

Some days ago, I powered on my Lenovo IdeaPad 5 Pro with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and noticed a very long boot time (More than 150 seconds). After logging in, I noticed wifi was connected successfully but the ...
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ubuntu taking too long to boot, constantly needs fsck, and often can't find the boot drive

I started having problems with ubuntu 18.04 forcing me to fsck the boot drive every other time I turned my desktop pc on. I figured maybe it's not supported anymore, so I went for 20.04. However it ...
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How long should it take to boot up Ubuntu? [duplicate]

I am currently using 'Ubuntu 20.04 LTS' (No dual boot) on 'hp da0077tx' laptop (Configuration: i5 8th gen CPU, 8 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD and 2 GB Nvidia GeForce MX110 graphics). I've purchased this laptop in ...
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Ubuntu 19.04 Boot time very long

I'm wondering what is wrong with my Ubuntu boot time. I have a recent computer, with a Windows dual boot (i5 8th gen) What does userspace part refer to ? olivbau@olivier-Ubuntu:~$ systemd-analyze ...
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"Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized" taking long time during boot

Output of dmesg: [ 18.062831] wlp1s0: associated [ 18.516902] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlp1s0: link becomes ready [ 18.844430] vboxdrv: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel. [ 18....
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18.04.1 LTS infinite boot time

Our Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS is no longer booting up. Here is what's happening. (please forgive the screenshot but I can't copy'n'paste... Any idea on what is going on? EDIT1: This is a virtual ...
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Which tasks are really needed for a successful boot?

From the question here I found a way to figure out, what is really time consuming. Output of systemd-analyze blame: 15.389s dev-sda5.device 15.159s snapd.service 15.133s plymouth-quit-wait.service ...
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Need help analyzing slow boot (ASUS ROG X99, ACPI)

I have a fairly high end computer (8-core i7-6900K, Samsung SM961 1TB NVMe, 32GB RAM), but I have a very slow boot. $ systemd-analyze Startup finished in 21.766s (firmware) + 5.769s (loader) + 16....
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hanging problem too much

What type of service I have to removed so that hanging problem is gone? 13.373s dev-sda1.device 7.966s NetworkManager-wait-online.service 6.422s systemd-udevd.service 5....
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Diagnosing boot time problem

I never thought much about my laptop's boot time but I now heard people complain about boot times of 30 s. I think that's about what my laptop needs, too, maybe even longer, and my laptop is better or ...
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xubuntu 16.04 took more than 3 mins to boot, what settings should I change to boost the speed?

the following is the output of systemd-analyze blame, and systemd-analyze critical chain, is there any settings I could change/modify to speed up the boot? thank you. after turned off and purged ...
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Slow boot after installing separate distro

So I have been searching for a solution for my problem for weeks now but was not able to find anything. Although topics that I found were sometimes similar/related they did not solve my specific ...
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Slow booting with strange logo

I uninstall and later reinstall gnome on my Ubuntu 14.04. I then upgraded to ubuntu 15.04. I am experiencing painfully slow loading, thus after using grub to select ubuntu since I dual boot ubuntu ...
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Why's ubuntu 12.10 so fast [duplicate]

I switched from windows to Ubuntu. There's a question in my mind regarding to boot up time of windows and Ubuntu (and many other Linux distros like Fedora,Linux Mint etc.). The question is "How come ...
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Lenovo T510 taking too long to boot. (Ubuntu Gnome)

I am quite new to Ubuntu. I ve just installed them to my Lenovo T510 (4384) laptop which also has a freshly installed SSD. The loading time (I 'm talking about the time it spends on the purple screen ...
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Very slow startup after update to 12.04

My hardware: Dell Latitude D600 laptop Processor: Intel Pentium (r) 1.8 GHz Memory 1.2 GiB Graphics R200 (RV250 4C66) x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL DRI2 Disk: 37.7 gb I did an update from 11.?? using the ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 slow boot issue

After experimenting with some suggested remedies to similar boot issues in the forum, my hp pavilion g4 notebook (i5, 4GB RAM) (Windows+Ubuntu 20.04 LTS desktop dual boot) took much longer time to ...
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Plymouth taking a lot of time during boot

$ systemd-analyze blame 3min 19.728s plymouth-quit-wait.service 19.248s dev-sda4.device 13.448s systemd-udevd.service 6.593s NetworkManager-wait-online.service 4.702s snapd....
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Help me troubleshoot slow boot since 24.04 upgrade

As stated in title, this is since 24.04 upgrade. Before the upgrade, total boot from POST to desktop manager was around 15-20 seconds. It is now 70-80 seconds from POST. Here are some outputs that I ...
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Ubuntu 16.04.6 & 19.10, Debian 10: timed out boot; Multi-OSes share swap

I'm experiencing boot errors after a recent install of Multiple OSes. I noticed the long boot times watching the boot loading code go by and getting apparently stuck on a start job that takes 90 ...
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Disk idle for too long before actually booting

I recently installed an SSD. Boot time is actually great. But I'm curious to know why it seems like it idles a lot before actually booting. I notice this on the HDD light, which is off for a few ...
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Is Samba required if you don't share folders and don't have any printers?

I wish to remove all unnecessary packages and services from Ubuntu 12.04. I was not clear whether samba is required for things other than sharing folders and printing. I don't do either of these tasks....
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DBX firmware update and corrupted bios

everyone, Last week, I updated the DBX firmware to 371 from Ubuntu on Aspire A515-43. So, when I updated the dbx, my laptop froze (Ubuntu OS), which led me to perform a forced shutdown via the power ...
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Can disabling `NetworkManager-wait-online.service` be considered harmful? What are alternatives?

My computer spends ~5s of startup time waiting for the wifi[1]. This answer promotes disabling NetworkManager-wait-online.service, and this works indeed. However, I was wondering if this may introduce ...
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Ubuntu boot time: long firmware and loader time

I installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on Dell Precision Tower 7910. The boot time is very long for some reason. (base) hell@Dell-Precision-T7910:~$ systemd-analyze Startup finished in 46.025s (...
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Long boot time, /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume not found

After I mount a hdd I am finding relatively long boot time on ubuntu 20.04. On my PCI gen4 nvme, systemd-analyze Startup finished in 10.499s (firmware) + 3.259s (loader) + 4.428s (kernel) + 8.384s (...
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