Super slow boot on Ubuntu 18.04

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I've seen this manifest on two desktops I manage.

This is a kernel related regression, the launchpad bug is: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1779827

As a workaround, press keys and/or move the mouse at boot. This will increase the randomness entropy.

Or running the following command to install rng-tools solves the issue for me:

sudo apt install rng-tools

From Arch wiki: The rng-tools is a set of utilities related to random number generation in kernel. This is mainly useful to increase the quantity of entropy in kernel to make /dev/random faster.

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Updated on September 18, 2022

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  • user2364174
    user2364174 over 1 year

    On my MacBook Air, I upgraded from Ubuntu 16.04 to Ubuntu 18.04. Everything is fine, but booting with Ubuntu takes approx. 6 minutes!

    Running $ systemd-analyze time outputs:

    Startup finished in 4.480s (kernel) + 6min 545ms (userspace) = 6min 5.026s
    graphical.target reached after 6min 535ms in userspace
    

    The final part of $ systemd-analyze time:

    ...
    [    7.005447] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
    [    7.354030] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): enx00e04c6800c5: link is not ready
    [    7.359359] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): enx00e04c6800c5: link is not ready
    [    7.363620] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp3s0: link is not ready
    [    8.977999] r8152 2-1.4:1.0 enx00e04c6800c5: carrier on
    [    8.978018] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): enx00e04c6800c5: link becomes ready
    [  359.996525] random: crng init done
    [  693.520385] thunderbolt 0000:07:00.0: resetting error on 0:b.
    [  693.520465] thunderbolt 0000:07:00.0: 0:b: hotplug: scanning
    [  693.520471] thunderbolt 0000:07:00.0: 0:b: hotplug: no switch found
    [  693.820626] thunderbolt 0000:07:00.0: resetting error on 0:b.
    [  693.820711] thunderbolt 0000:07:00.0: 0:b: got unplug event for disconnected port, ignoring
    [ 1338.638266] thunderbolt 0000:07:00.0: resetting error on 0:b.
    [ 1338.638283] thunderbolt 0000:07:00.0: 0:b: hotplug: scanning
    [ 1338.638288] thunderbolt 0000:07:00.0: 0:b: hotplug: no switch found
    [ 1338.938543] thunderbolt 0000:07:00.0: resetting error on 0:b.
    [ 1338.938568] thunderbolt 0000:07:00.0: 0:b: got unplug event for disconnected port, ignoring
    [ 1357.411889] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
    [ 1357.411894] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
    [ 1357.411900] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
    [ 1358.945100] rfkill: input handler disabled
    

    The etc/fstab file:

    ...
    # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
    # / was on /dev/sda4 during installation
    UUID=2ef34bb8-5360-460a-8a8a-646d3a102a3a /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
    # /boot/efi was on /dev/sda1 during installation
    UUID=67E3-17ED  /boot/efi       vfat    umask=0077      0       1
    # swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
    UUID=7c820859-65c5-44ac-9704-b3e0bb8c8020 none            swap    sw              0       0
    

    How can I further troubleshoot and possibly solve this problem? Thank you in advance.

    Mario

    • sourcejedi
      sourcejedi over 5 years
      you should also show first few lines from systemd-analyze blame. and look at main system log for suspicious jumps in timestamps or timeout errors etc: journalctl -b. If you like timestamps in seconds since boot, use journalctl -b -o short-monotonic. but, maybe it is same as askubuntu.com/a/1029880/20709
    • sourcejedi
      sourcejedi over 5 years
      Ah, no, I found one I thought was more common & you should absolutely look at: askubuntu.com/questions/1051762/…
    • user2364174
      user2364174 over 5 years
      Thank you @sourcejedi, I run $ systemd-analyze blame and get these over 1 sec: 5min 57.755s plymouth-quit-wait.service 4min 23.726s snapd.seeded.service 1min 22.474s snapd.service 30.044s NetworkManager-wait-online.service 25.984s apt-daily.service 1.582s dev-sda4.device So definitely it looks like the problem mentioned at askubuntu.com/questions/1051762/…
    • sourcejedi
      sourcejedi over 5 years
      I think that matches the symptoms on the second link I posted.
    • user2364174
      user2364174 over 5 years
      Yes, I also tried the workaround of moving the mouse / hitting keys and the boot time is reduced to a little more than 1 minute, see the new $ systemd-analyze blame output: 1min 14.492s plymouth-quit-wait.service 1min 11.148s snapd.service 30.046s NetworkManager-wait-online.service 1.513s dev-sda4.device 1.112s dev-loop2.device Still it's quite a lot of time compared to before the upgrade, so I will hope for a real final solution.
  • markackerman8-gmail.com
    markackerman8-gmail.com about 5 years
    Long "Start and Stop Jobs" ∘ "acpi int3400 unsupported event" ERRORS OVER 285 FARG!@#$ING Times • sudo gedit /etc/systemd/system.conf ‣ #DefaultTimeoutStartSec=90s ‣ DefaultTimeoutStartSec=5s ∘ and ‣ #DefaultTimeoutStopSec=90s ‣ DefaultTimeoutStopSec=5s • sudo update-initramfs -u