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NthArdGriff

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Registered: 2025-06-25

Posts: 8

[SOLVED] Help with my booting time

I switched to arch linux like a couple of weeks ago and I noticed that it takes over a min and half to boot, I managed to get the boot log and it says this about the wlan0 interface

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[K[[0;1;31m*[0m[0;31m*    [0m] A start job is running for /sys/subsystem/net/devices/wlan0.serve (1min 29s / 1min 30s)

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[K[[0;1;31m TIME [0m] Timed out waiting for device [0;1;39m/sys/subsystem/net/devices/wlan0.serve[0m.

[K[[0;1;38:5:185mDEPEND[0m] Dependency failed for [0;1;39mDHCP/ IPv4LL/ IPv6RA/ DHCPv6 client on wlan0.serve[0m.

[[0;32m  OK  [0m] Reached target [0;1;39mNetwork[0m.

         Starting [0;1;39mPermit User Sessions[0m...

I will guess kate has some issues with some parts of the log so it shows those symbols, as for searching, I searched about it, and I found it can be many possibilities and idk which can be my case. just to give some context if it helps

When I installed it I watched 2 videos, one from SomeOrdinaryGamers and other from Ksk Royal, from SomeOrdinaryGamers I followed its steps but at the beginning of the install I watched Ksk Royal to see how to connect to the internet via Wi-Fi so i used iwctl then station wlan connect incide the iwd line it gave me, and later on i installed dchpd and used the command sudo system ctl enable dhcpd@wlan0.service as Mutah indicated in his video and installed networkmanager package and then enabled it. When i finished the install of the image and went to the new ISO install i had to use the Network manager package to in the command line to connect to the internet again after searching about it so i used sudo nmcli dev wifi connect. If someone knows how to avoid the 1 min and half boot time with this info pls tell me

Edit: NM has dhpc by itself installing and setting up dhcpcd was unnecessary.

Last edited by NthArdGriff (2025-07-02 12:38:44)

darcmage

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Registered: 2021-07-22

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Re: [SOLVED] Help with my booting time

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Improv … ot_process

You'll get a better idea of what's happening.

dakota

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Registered: 2016-05-20

Posts: 417

Re: [SOLVED] Help with my booting time

Let's start by seeing how many network managers you've got running. You can use a pastebin-like service. Paste the following command into a terminal. It should return a link, which you can post here.

$ find /etc/systemd -type l -exec test -f {} \; -print | awk -F'/' '{ printf ("%-40s | %s\n", $(NF-0), $(NF-1)) }' | sort -f | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

It wouldn't hurt to have a look at the journal, either

$ journalctl -b -1  | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

Cheers,

Edit - journalctl can be run as a regular user

Last edited by dakota (2025-07-02 02:42:14)

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NthArdGriff

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Registered: 2025-06-25

Posts: 8

Re: [SOLVED] Help with my booting time

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Improv … ot_process

You'll get a better idea of what's happening.

I did it and i found the solution i removed the package dhcpcd and put the dhcp through Network manager, now it boots in 4 seconds instead of 1 min and half thx!

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [SOLVED] Help with my booting time

NM runs dhcp anyway and that was the problem as

Let's start by seeing how many network managers you've got running.

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Thanks.

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