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BigSam

Member

Registered: 2025-05-01

Posts: 1

Long boot time on Arch

Hello all,

I'm new to Arch and pretty much linux altogether and ever since installing arch, the boot time has been slow with the culprit being the kernel taking the most time.

Startup finished in 25.027s (firmware) + 2.173s (loader) + 1min 8.694s (kernel) + 1.628s (userspace) = 1min 37.524s 
graphical.target reached after 1.628s in userspace.

and I can't find what is making it soooo damn slow

systemd-analyze blame
142ms dev-nvme0n1p6.device
102ms user@1000.service
100ms goxlr-autostart.service
 75ms systemd-udev-trigger.service
 71ms systemd-networkd.service
 69ms udisks2.service
 63ms ldconfig.service
 49ms upower.service
 46ms systemd-hostnamed.service
 41ms polkit.service
 39ms systemd-journald.service
 33ms user-runtime-dir@1000.service
 33ms systemd-journal-flush.service
 30ms systemd-resolved.service
 29ms systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service
 29ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev-early.service
 28ms proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.mount
 28ms boot.mount
 27ms systemd-journal-catalog-update.service
 23ms systemd-update-done.service
 23ms systemd-update-utmp.service
 21ms systemd-udevd.service
 21ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
 20ms tmp.mount
 20ms systemd-vconsole-setup.service
 20ms systemd-logind.service
 19ms systemd-remount-fs.service
 16ms dev-zram0.swap
 15ms systemd-userdbd.service
 15ms systemd-rfkill.service
 15ms systemd-timesyncd.service
 11ms systemd-sysusers.service
  9ms systemd-zram-setup@zram0.service
  8ms modprobe@dm_mod.service
  8ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
  7ms dev-hugepages.mount
  7ms dbus-broker.service
  7ms dev-mqueue.mount
  7ms sys-kernel-debug.mount
  7ms systemd-random-seed.service
  6ms systemd-modules-load.service
  6ms sys-kernel-tracing.mount
  6ms kmod-static-nodes.service
  6ms modprobe@loop.service
  5ms modprobe@configfs.service
  5ms modprobe@drm.service
  5ms modprobe@fuse.service
  4ms rtkit-daemon.service
  4ms systemd-udev-load-credentials.service
  4ms systemd-network-generator.service
  4ms systemd-sysctl.service
  3ms systemd-user-sessions.service
  3ms systemd-networkd-persistent-storage.service
  2ms sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount
  2ms sys-kernel-config.mount

Any ideas?

Last edited by BigSam (2025-05-01 23:26:23)

V1del

Forum Moderator

Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,141

Re: Long boot time on Arch

Check/post

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

if the problem is in kernel space you need to look at kernel space. Some common stuff some faulty USB disk/device or so.