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Old 04-19-2018, 07:53 AM   #1
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openSUSE Tumbleweed "A start job is running for x2duuid...." delay fix


Been using openSUSE Tumbleweed for a while now, and pretty happy with it. Until recently....it would have a delay in booting, and would sit there churning for 1:30, then continue booting.

Read some problem descriptions, based on this:
Code:
[ OK ] Starting switch root
[ * ] A start job is running for dev-disk-by\x2duuid <more text>
[ TIME ] Timed out waiting for device dev-disk-by\x2duuid <more text>
...that I found in /var/log/boot.log Everything I read said it was a disk going bad, a partition that wasn't there any longer and was still in fstab, etc., etc. Couldn't figure it out. SMART diagnostics on the SDD said all was well, no files missing, nothing not working.

This seemed to start after I formatted a USB stick, and encrypted it. After a LOT of digging, I found that for some reason, the system had shoved a reference into the /etc/crypttab file for that drive! Didn't ask it to, but it did anyway. So, a little experiment was done; I formatted another USB stick, and it shoved IT in there too...and now my boot-delay was 3 minutes, instead of 1:30.

Removed those lines, and rebooted. No delay; system up to login in under 20 seconds, as it used to be.
 
  


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