Is it possible to make Ubuntu 20.04 boot faster?
I'm sorry if my question is rather newbie, because it is - but I've never bothered to tweak my Linux much. I've managed to get my Manjaro (not without some external help) cut boot time to 8-10s (by systemd-analyze) and I'd like to maybe try the same thing with Ubuntu but I am not sure what should I do and if it is possible. By all means it is not extremely slow but there is a major drawback on my nvme SSD since I've been using Manjaro which was up and ready in 10s and now it takes about 25s to get ready with Ubuntu. While the Manjaro was slow because of the grub timeout, Ubuntu has grub set to 0 by default - that one I've checked.
Here's my systemd-analyze and systemd-analyze blame - if anything else is needed I'll provide it:
systemd-analyze
Startup finished in 8.390s (firmware) + 4.976s (loader) + 2.131s (kernel) + 9.071s (userspace) = 24.570s
graphical.target reached after 9.039s in userspace
systemd-analyze blame
7.076s NetworkManager-wait-online.service
5.821s plymouth-quit-wait.service
5.041s bolt.service
1.753s grub-common.service
1.727s apport.service
1.159s snapd.service
1.047s systemd-logind.service
1.032s networkd-dispatcher.service
996ms accounts-daemon.service
824ms udisks2.service
595ms polkit.service
590ms avahi-daemon.service
563ms bluetooth.service
539ms NetworkManager.service
438ms switcheroo-control.service
395ms dev-nvme0n1p2.device
365ms ModemManager.service
328ms thermald.service
314ms gdm.service
311ms wpa_supplicant.service
300ms upower.service
253ms grub-initrd-fallback.service
242ms e2scrub_reap.service
240ms gpu-manager.service
224ms rsyslog.service
224ms dev-loop1.device
223ms dev-loop0.device
184ms snap-snap\x2dstore-467.mount
183ms snap-snapd-8542.mount
182ms snap-gtk\x2dcommon\x2dthemes-1506.mount
173ms [email protected]
170ms dev-loop2.device
154ms pppd-dns.service
128ms systemd-resolved.service
127ms systemd-backlight@backlight:intel_backlight.service
119ms alsa-restore.service
118ms systemd-timesyncd.service
106ms dev-loop4.device
104ms systemd-user-sessions.service
103ms swapfile.swap
101ms snap-gnome\x2d3\x2d34\x2d1804-36.mount
(...)
And here's systemd-analyze critical-chain:
graphical.target @9.039s
└─multi-user.target @9.039s
└─kerneloops.service @8.974s +63ms
└─network-online.target @8.969s
└─NetworkManager-wait-online.service @1.891s +7.076s
└─NetworkManager.service @1.340s +539ms
└─dbus.service @1.311s
└─basic.target @1.232s
└─sockets.target @1.232s
└─snapd.socket @1.226s +5ms
└─sysinit.target @1.210s
└─systemd-backlight@backlight:intel_backlight.service @1.082s +127ms
└─system-systemd\x2dbacklight.slice @921ms
└─system.slice @433ms
└─-.slice @433ms
I am using a NVMe SSD to boot. And have 20.04 Kubuntu installed. I also change grub to 3 sec delay from default of 10 sec, just to have time to press a key if needed.
fred@z170-focal-k:~$ systemd-analyze
Startup finished in 2.667s (kernel) + 5.167s (userspace) = 7.834s
graphical.target reached after 5.155s in userspace
Turned off NetworkManager-wait with systemctl:
systemctl disable NetworkManager-wait-online.service
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=282437
Changed from quiet splash to noplymouth, will see boot process rather than Ubuntu logo. Sometimes you then can see what process is hanging system, also. Even though not using raid nor encryption, installing drivers supposedly helps.
sed -i '/GRUB_TIMEOUT=/ s/10/3/' /etc/default/grub
sed -i '/GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT/ s/"quiet splash"/"noplymouth"/' /etc/default/grub
sudo update-grub
sudo apt install libblockdev-crypto2 libblockdev-mdraid2,
turned off printer when rebooting,
removed all snaps, prefer .debs for most apps
sudo apt autoremove --purge snapd
If UEFI firmware update not supported (yet) and no thunderbolt, one of my systems also does not have bluetooth, so I also uninstall that on that system only
sudo apt-get purge fwupd
systemctl status bolt
boltctl list
systemctl mask bolt.service
sudo apt-get autoremove blueman bluez-utils bluez bluetooth
Many with slow boot issues have reinstalled an have a reference in fstab to a bad UUID. Best to confirm all UUIDs are correct.
lsblk -o name,fstype,size,label,mountpoint,uuid | egrep -v "^loop"
cat /etc/fstab
Only if swap partition & reformatted this could be wrong UUID.
cat /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume
Be sure to mount partitions with noatime.
UUID=54029c4f-0cbe-413e-80ce-78a4995b0551 / ext4 noatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
More details:
slow boot boot 19.10 (tried almost everything)
What does NetworkManager-wait-online.service do?
Ubuntu 16.04 slow boot (apt-daily.service)
How to remove fwupd.service from boot?
Do I really need apt-daily.service and apt-daily-upgrade.service?
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2436900&p=13932499#post13932499
Ubuntu 15.04 network manager causing slow boot