42 seconds boot time. It seems to have taken maybe 10-15 seconds before.
I think I screwed something up. The time difference changed after I enlarged “/” partition and move swap. Swap was against the root partition, so I moved it first then enlarged the root ("/") partition.
Some info:
easyt50@8300 ~ $ systemd-analyze
Startup finished in 36.485s (kernel) + 5.513s (userspace) = 41.999s
graphical.target reached after 5.509s in userspace
easyt50@8300 ~ $ systemd-analyze blame
4.341s NetworkManager-wait-online.service
477ms ufw.service
327ms systemd-journal-flush.service
292ms dev-sda6.device
278ms udisks2.service
275ms NetworkManager.service
153ms ubuntu-system-adjustments.service
150ms systemd-timesyncd.service
149ms networkd-dispatcher.service
141ms systemd-resolved.service
126ms systemd-modules-load.service
Everything below this was less then 100ms.
I had problems enlarging the root partition using gparted but got it done. Did not doc my steps, so I can not answer details about problems.
This getting a bit long, but other info I can add is fstab
/etc/fstab: static file system information.
‘#’ Use ‘blkid’ to print the universally unique identifier for a
'#'device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
‘#’ that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
‘#’
‘#’/ was on /dev/sda8 during installation
UUID=da6ec12c-c8bb-4132-8157-bd77d62721d1 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
‘#’/home was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=0af7ea4c-9721-49b3-afa7-912c27c9d4cc /home ext4 defaults 0 2
'#'swap now on /dev/sda8
UUID=8c42de44-5d68-466e-93e3-9a9b342905b3 none swap sw 0 0
'#'swap was on /dev/sda9 during installation
'#“UUID=455eee28-2ab3-4fc0-895d-4035700b40c4 none swap sw 0 0
Swap was not updated after I did the move, so I updated to the correct /dev/sda. This did seem to help with the boot time. I place ‘’ around '#” b/c it enlarged the print.
I also tried to run fsck. When I got the grub menu, I went into recovery mode and used fsck. I got back.
“fsck from util-linux 2.31.1”
“dev/sda6 is mounted”
“e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting”
“Finish, please press enter.”
Now the good news - after the boot, everything seems to be running fine.
So I am worry about 3 things.
Why the long boot time?
Why fsck will not run?
Even tho system seems fine, am I sitting on a time bomb? ie: when the system goes to use the expanded area.
without output from systemd-analyze (especially blame) from before your reconfiguration it will be hard to figure out what the difference really is even though it might seem a bit longer. your time is similar to mine (36.982s) on a system with a decent i5 processor, 8 gb of ram and an ssd.
I would speculate that Linux had to get to know and chat with the new partitions, before it felt it was right to boot from them. I can’t tell you for sure, though.
My speculation is based on the fact, that the boot time was mainly influenced by the kernel.
Yes, w/o before boot times documented, it just a feeling I have. Found this neat program while looking up my system info. ‘sudo apt install sysinfo’
My desktop which is taking 42 sec to boot is a i5-3570 CPU @ 3.40GHz, 8 gigs of ram, and running Mint 19.1.
My laptop takes 7 seconds to boot. It is a i5-2520M CPU @ 2.50GHz, 6 gigs of ram, Mint 18.3.
Both system are booting off a SSD. I suppose that as long as the PC is running well, I should not complain about boot time. It just seem so different.
Yes, it looks odd… LOL. They are comment tho.
After the install, I removed 2 partitions by combining them into 2 other partitions and moved swap.
This is how it looks now.
From fdisk -l;
/dev/sda6 275259392 339111935 63852544 30.5G 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 339113984 460470271 121356288 57.9G 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 460472320 468860927 8388608 4G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
if you are concerned about swap, you could run free -m or swapon --show to make sure it is mounting correctly.
dmesg -H --level=err can give you a look at system errors that have been reported. lnav /var/log will give you a very comprehensive view of all of your system logs. i like lnav because it shows errors (you can jump to past errors with shift + e and then forward with just e. same with w for warnings) and warnings in red and yellow (respectively) and makes them easier to spot. i’m pretty sure i had to install that in mint with sudo apt install lnav.
out of curiosity i tried that and got the same “drive is mounted. aborting” message as you. i did notice the following in the instructions which i didn’t follow that might have affected my run:
Running fsck in rescue mode requires few more steps. First prepare your system for reboot . Stop any critical services like MySQL/MariaDB etc and then type.
if you’re still interested in running fsck on your drive, that should be easy enough from a live usb.
Thanks for the info.
Wow! lnav command does provide a lot of information.
I suppose every error (red line) should be looked into. I have a few starting with the boot.
“tpm tpm0: A TPM error (7) occurred attempting to read a pcr value” which seems to happen on every boot. Maybe it is not a critical error.
that same error (with a 6 in parentheses) shows up twice every time i boot (even from suspend). trying to find the bookmark where i believe ask ubuntu says it’s nothing to worry about…
looks like i didn’t bookmark that find after all a few different fixes popped up when i did a search just now. the arch wiki links it to the trusted platform module which is what i remember from looking into this before.
With your help and help from other on this board I’m learning a lot. I will take each error and do some research (google) them and try to learn more. This make take awhile…LOL.
Oh btw, the free and swapon looked good to me. And the dmesg command reported only the TPM error, but there are several errors recored in the log from lnav.
It happen again! Increasing the size of root (/) and boot time increase 10 fold!
Is this a problem worth reporting to the Linux team?
Has anyone else had this happen to them using Linux Mint Cinnamon 18 or 19?
I moved swap and expanded root. I started down your check list with swapon --show and got no response. So, as you suggested I check the UUID’s and swap was incorrect in fstab. I updated it and re-booted. Now systemd shows 28 seconds boot time!
