budgies takes forever and a day when booting up…any suggestions
please run systemd-analyze blame so that everyone can see what is being loaded at boot and more importantly which element is taking the time during the boot.
How big is your root partition? Maybe taking a very long time to check it?
Mine boots in under 40 seconds, installed on an 11 GB ssd partition. systemd-analyze blame is
5.161s dev-mmcblk0p4.device
4.467s NetworkManager-wait-online.service
3.164s snapd.service
2.509s plymouth-read-write.service
2.328s dev-loop0.device
2.318s dev-loop1.device
2.311s dev-loop2.device
2.237s dev-loop3.device
2.209s systemd-logind.service
2.107s e2scrub_reap.service
1.857s lightdm.service
1.837s plymouth-quit-wait.service
1.797s upower.service
1.453s udisks2.service
1.439s networkd-dispatcher.service
1.315s ModemManager.service
1.162s accounts-daemon.service
1.153s systemd-resolved.service
1.130s systemd-timesyncd.service
1.113s systemd-journald.service
1.089s systemd-rfkill.service
852ms avahi-daemon.service
809ms bluetooth.service
780ms wpa_supplicant.service
737ms rsyslog.service
667ms NetworkManager.service
570ms keyboard-setup.service
537ms apparmor.service
522ms systemd-udev-trigger.service
512ms systemd-backlight@backlight:intel_backlight.service
502ms lm-sensors.service
500ms apport.service
478ms pppd-dns.service
459ms grub-initrd-fallback.service
451ms secureboot-db.service
399ms gpu-manager.service
384ms grub-common.service
347ms user@1000.service
233ms polkit.service
216ms systemd-udevd.service
192ms systemd-journal-flush.service
142ms snapd.seeded.service
127ms snap-ubuntu\x2dbudgie\x2dwelcome-145.mount
124ms kerneloops.service
121ms colord.service
119ms sys-kernel-debug.mount
117ms ufw.service
116ms snap-core-8268.mount
116ms kmod-static-nodes.service
110ms dev-hugepages.mount
106ms snap-core-7917.mount
105ms systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-9472\x2d61A6.service
98ms systemd-modules-load.service
98ms systemd-remount-fs.service
95ms swapfile.swap
94ms dev-mqueue.mount
91ms systemd-sysctl.service
89ms snap-ubuntu\x2dbudgie\x2dwelcome-156.mount
80ms systemd-update-utmp-runlevel.service
73ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
71ms hddtemp.service
67ms systemd-update-utmp.service
62ms console-setup.service
61ms plymouth-start.service
56ms systemd-sysusers.service
56ms boot-efi.mount
52ms user-runtime-dir@1000.service
49ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
49ms systemd-random-seed.service
47ms sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount
46ms systemd-user-sessions.service
46ms sys-kernel-config.mount
24ms rtkit-daemon.service
18ms snapd.socket
14ms setvtrgb.service
Do I need snap?
I think I have only one partion…I let the system config it,all I did was click on the /…and let it do its thing…should I reinstall,and if so…how should I have it partition up…its a 80 gb hard drive
Let’s first have a look at what is slowing down your boot. Please run the systemd command I requested.
80GB shouldn’t take very long to check on boot, no need to re-install just yet. Usually a slow boot is down to just one or two problems.
glynn@glynn-System-Product-Name:~$ systemd-analyze blame
29.665s dev-sdd1.device
24.461s snapd.service
14.548s accounts-daemon.service
14.170s ModemManager.service
14.061s udisks2.service
12.739s networkd-dispatcher.service
10.454s systemd-journal-flush.service
10.368s lightdm.service
10.365s plymouth-quit-wait.service
8.996s NetworkManager-wait-online.service
8.715s grub-common.service
8.488s nmbd.service
8.369s e2scrub_reap.service
8.233s lm-sensors.service
8.115s apport.service
8.026s grub-initrd-fallback.service
7.909s dev-loop7.device
7.882s NetworkManager.service
7.651s systemd-logind.service
7.560s rsyslog.service
7.524s wpa_supplicant.service
7.519s thermald.service
7.399s dev-loop5.device
7.339s configure-printer@usb-003-003.service
7.335s dev-loop10.device
7.188s gpu-manager.service
7.065s apt-daily.service
6.886s dev-loop1.device
6.526s dev-loop9.device
6.462s dev-loop8.device
6.294s dev-loop3.device
6.112s dev-loop2.device
6.000s dev-loop6.device
5.876s dev-loop4.device
5.705s dev-loop0.device
5.028s systemd-udevd.service
3.443s smbd.service
2.897s apparmor.service
2.896s colord.service
2.712s systemd-resolved.service
1.667s systemd-sysctl.service
1.611s systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
1.336s polkit.service
1.271s switcheroo-control.service
1.096s systemd-rfkill.service
1.047s plymouth-read-write.service
1.009s systemd-modules-load.service
894ms snap-core-8268.mount
882ms upower.service
838ms keyboard-setup.service
837ms snap-ubuntu\x2dbudgie\x2dwelcome-145.mount
796ms snap-core-7917.mount
747ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
715ms snap-core18-1650.mount
678ms systemd-timesyncd.service
670ms systemd-sysusers.service
600ms plymouth-start.service
595ms user@1000.service
560ms pppd-dns.service
531ms snapd.seeded.service
513ms snap-clementine-659.mount
480ms systemd-journald.service
450ms snap-chromium-1005.mount
446ms systemd-user-sessions.service
436ms swapfile.swap
387ms ufw.service
382ms systemd-udev-trigger.service
358ms snap-gtk\x2dcommon\x2dthemes-1440.mount
356ms openvpn.service
239ms console-setup.service
238ms snapd.socket
235ms systemd-random-seed.service
219ms snap-epiphany-53.mount
183ms setvtrgb.service
171ms kerneloops.service
162ms kmod-static-nodes.service
142ms systemd-remount-fs.service
137ms snap-core18-1668.mount
120ms fwupd.service
110ms snap-gnome\x2d3\x2d28\x2d1804-116.mount
106ms snap-ubuntu\x2dbudgie\x2dwelcome-156.mount
105ms rtkit-daemon.service
95ms dev-mqueue.mount
94ms sys-kernel-debug.mount
82ms bolt.service
78ms hddtemp.service
77ms systemd-update-utmp.service
59ms dev-hugepages.mount
49ms systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service
27ms user-runtime-dir@1000.service
11ms systemd-update-utmp-runlevel.service
7ms avahi-daemon.service
2ms sys-kernel-config.mount
2ms sys-fs-fuse-connections.mountHmm… are you fully up to date?
sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade
What kernel are you using?
uname -a
What version of ubuntu budgie are you running?
You have several snaps installed … but overall your boot processes are extraordinarily slow. Weird.
29.665s dev-sdd1.device
That is probably getting scanned by fsck. If that happens each time you boot it could be dying. Do a check yourself from command line to see if it throws any errors.
This one can be disabled:
8.996s NetworkManager-wait-online.service
with
sudo systemctl mask NetworkManager-wait-online.service
without any side effects unless you run servers that require your network to be up and running during boot. Generally not the case for a desktop.
14.170s ModemManager.service
is related to
“ModemManager is a DBus-activated daemon which controls mobile broadband (2G/3G/4G) devices and connections. Whether built-in devices, USB dongles, bluetooth-paired telephones, or professional RS232/USB devices with external power supplies, ModemManager is able to prepare and configure the modems and setup connections with them.”
Do you have to have it active? If not mask that one too.
sudo systemctl mask ModemManager.service
Both would save you 25s.
plymouth-quit-wait.service and accounts-daemon.service are not an issue: those times are affected by other services (https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.special.html is releated to this)
final note:
systemd-analyze critical-chain
is another command to use in combination with systemd-analyze blame.
Burning question : How do you even have a 64-bit machine with an 80GB hard drive? Is it an ssd?
80GB HD was normal in 2005, so how has this particular 80GB hard disk ended up in a 64-bit capable machine being used in 2020?
oh it’s on a test hard drive…I use 2 ssd drives 150 and 550 for my everyday use…and when I see a ps to try I use my old 80 gig data drive for testing…if I can get it to work on that,than I can put it on my ssd 150gig drive
Nice. How about this plan -
Don’t bother installing anything on the old 80GB drive. Keep it as spare space for when you need to make 150GB space on your 550GB drive.
Before testing out an install, take an image of the smaller drive, save to the larger drive. Have a functional o/s installed on the second drive so you can use it as the system for imaging the first drive. If you want to make this faster, you can partition the smaller drive and just image the partition you have the system on. If I were you I’d have less than 50GB for the system, the other 100 for home, the 550 drive just for data and backup imaging the system partition.
If you ever don’t have enough room, use the 80GB drive as extra space.
@8ink I am considering adding an SSD to my Asus VivoBook, to make it faster.
Reading your advice to “image” a drive, is this meant to copy the contents, installs and configurations of the Budgie OS to the SSD drive?
Is it possible to copy the OS to the SSD drive, so that I don’t have to install and configure everything again?
You can copy an os to a drive using rsync and some tinkering, but using either gnome-disk-utility or dd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix) very carefully is the way to go.
Put it this way, I’m currently using an HP stream which came with windows. I first booted it from LMDE on a usb and used dd to take an image of the whole internal 32GB emmc drive and saved it to a 2 TB external HDD.
Very soon I may do this again, to preserve my current dual-boot setup, and go with something else. If I come to sell this laptop, I’ll use dd to put the original windows 10 image back.
Imaging whole drives is easier than partitions but takes more resources.
If you want to image your 80GB setup over to your ssd you can, and just grow the partition into the extra space or add whatever other partitions you need. Keeping it the same size as the original drive makes it handy for using dd to take a backup.
I see what you saying… but my 2 sad drives are windows10 work drives,cant mess with them…so all I have is my old 80gb hd. I had makula on it before it worked fine,and everything seems to be working fine with budgie…just a slow bootup…but if that’s all that’s wrong…I am good with it…thanks for the hlp
It’s Windows. Either you take control of it or it messes with you!
Back up your data, create windows restore disks if you haven’t done so already then reinstall windows every three months minimum and while you’re at it, shrink each of the large windows basic data partitions using gparted to create a few GB of space, make new partitions, install linux on both of them. Use them to keep your windows work data safe.
@Rinzwind I have masked both processes, now I am unable to access the internet.
In the wifi settings it says Device not Ready…
Oops … the reverse of “mask” needs a bit more work
I think we got lost somewhere…he is exactly what do…when I want to try a new os,I remove all my hard drives,except the 80 gig sata…that way I cannot mess up any of my other drives. .so when I boot bodgie…it has only the data drive connected…no windows at all…
unmask them then e
it was not my intention so sorry! 
it is probably:
sudo systemctl unmask ModemManager.service
and not …
sudo systemctl unmask NetworkManager-wait-online.service
cuz the 1st one sets up internet for some specific types of connections