UM 18.04 taking long time (like 5 minutes) to complete boot

[jaybo]

@mdooley

The business of the problem seemingly vanishing with networking disabled is pointing at the solution.

I don’t understand how that points to the SWAP file or partition? I am also baffled why Caja is disabled during this process? Trust me, I am searching for a solution.

@mdooley

Check /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume Since you have a swap file, maybe RESUME=NONE is appropriate.

There is no “resume”, just “splash”

@mdooley

I learned that not only fstab should be correct but that /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume needs to have the correct UUID for swap.

UUIDs seem correct to me. Is a resume file required? This problem only started recently, the OS build is over a year old. There have been no hardware changes.

My fstab:

UUID=cf5bba43-4311-4bfc-a8f3-575afd062a74 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/swapfile none swap sw 0 0

$ top -bn1 | grep -i swap

KiB Swap: 2097148 total, 2097148 free, 0 used. 14411536 avail Mem
83 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kswapd0

$ sudo blkid

/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop1: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop2: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop3: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop4: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop5: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop6: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop7: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/sda1: UUID="cf5bba43-4311-4bfc-a8f3-575afd062a74" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="bee52fb6-01"
/dev/sdb: LABEL="DataFiles" UUID="7cdbf0c0-d4df-471e-a1db-07fbfdb61ef2" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdc1: LABEL="MultiMedia" UUID="1986ba60-63d8-49aa-a4c2-47317d18ed79" TYPE="xfs" PARTUUID="000ba044-01"
/dev/sdd1: UUID="fa83ad0f-b87c-4640-82a8-786f18f91ba5" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="2ef6e257-01"
/dev/sdd2: UUID="9c9e4ba3-1ece-4048-91bf-c8da70bf6f13" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="2ef6e257-02"
/dev/loop8: TYPE="squashfs"

$ lsblk -f

NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT
loop0 squashfs /snap/software-boutique/31
loop1 squashfs /snap/software-boutique/39
loop2 squashfs /snap/ubuntu-mate-welcome/319
loop3 squashfs /snap/ubuntu-mate-welcome/335
loop4 squashfs /snap/ubuntu-mate-welcome/324
loop5 squashfs /snap/pulsemixer/250
loop6 squashfs /snap/pulsemixer/23
loop7 squashfs /snap/core/7169
loop8 squashfs /snap/core/7270
sda
└─sda1 ext4 cf5bba43-4311-4bfc-a8f3-575afd062a74 /
sdb ext4 DataFiles 7cdbf0c0-d4df-471e-a1db-07fbfdb61ef2
sdc
└─sdc1 xfs MultiMedia 1986ba60-63d8-49aa-a4c2-47317d18ed79
sdd
├─sdd1 ext4 fa83ad0f-b87c-4640-82a8-786f18f91ba5
└─sdd2 swap 9c9e4ba3-1ece-4048-91bf-c8da70bf6f13

$ inxi -F

System: Host: UM18 Kernel: 4.15.0-54-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: MATE 1.20.1 Distro: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
Machine: Device: desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: M5A97 LE R2.0 v: Rev 1.xx serial: N/A
BIOS: American Megatrends v: 2701 date: 03/24/2016
CPU: 8 core AMD FX-8320E Eight-Core (-MCP-) cache: 16384 KB
clock speeds: max: 3200 MHz 1: 1720 MHz 2: 1445 MHz 3: 1502 MHz 4: 1513 MHz 5: 1403 MHz 6: 1402 MHz
7: 1429 MHz 8: 1413 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GK208B [GeForce GT 710]
Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 ) drivers: nvidia (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa,nouveau)
Resolution: [email protected]
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GT 710/PCIe/SSE2 version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.116
Audio: Card-1 NVIDIA GK208 HDMI/DP Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel Sound: ALSA v: k4.15.0-54-generic
Card-2 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) driver: snd_hda_intel
Network: Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: r8169
IF: enp2s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 38:d5:47:e1:55:94
Drives: HDD Total Size: 3860.8GB (0.4% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: PNY_CS1311_240GB size: 240.1GB
ID-2: /dev/sdb model: WDC_WD20EZRZ size: 2000.4GB
ID-3: /dev/sdc model: WDC_WD15EARS size: 1500.3GB
ID-4: /dev/sdd model: OCZ size: 120.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 220G used: 16G (8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 22.8C mobo: N/A gpu: 45C
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 0
Info: Processes: 233 Uptime: 20 min Memory: 1305.3/15942.8MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.56

[ugnvs]

@jaybo

Earlier mentioned all my apps are usable. But I found Caja is not. Not sure if this means anything.

My twopence: Is that possible that you have some (unavailable) networking resource set (accidentally) to auto-mount in caja?

[mdooley]

I reread your post #22 in regard to the syslog errors. I googled searched on
"ubuntu: 'G_UDEV_IS_DEVICE (device)' failed"
and came up with quite a few bug reports. Some of them mentioned that their file browsers weren't functioning too. I now think that you've come upon a bug.

I don't think this has anything to do with SWAP in any form. Your inxi -F report shows plenty of unused space on your drives and plenty of memory so things look good in that respect.

From what I can tell, something in your setup is phoning out somewhere and not making its connection. And this is probably a result of a bug, reportedly in gvfs. See -
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/1752091
for an example. If one of these looks like what you're dealing with, I'd mark myself affected by whatever bug looks spot on to you.

Just this morning, the three systems I can boot into on my old laptop displayed upgrades to GVFS, at least six files each for MATE 16.04, 18.04 and 19.04. So perhaps you have updated today and your problem is fixed?

One other thing that you might try if you haven't already done so is to boot into an older kernel and see if that removes the problem. Otherwise, if it were me, I'd reinstall as that might be a whole lot faster and easier to do than chase down this bug. Good luck jaybo.

[jaybo]

Resolved: I am guessing some how caja got messed up. Here is the error I got when attempting to reboot prior to the completion of boot.

So I restored an image back up from 17 June, applied all updates. No issues

Thanks to all who responded for their patience in assisting me in finding a solution.