Passphrase delay

[llobach]

I may not be using the correct terminology here, but here goes. I have an HP Pavilion dv2000 laptop with Intel 945GM graphics & F16 (KDE) installed with LVM and encryption enabled. Boot up is slow due to a delay of 30-60 secs, before I can actually type in my decryption passphrase into the Plymouth GUI. Here's the o/p of systemd-analyze blame - that I believe gives an idea of what's going on during boot-up. Is there anything I can do to speed the boot up? (just found my post of Apr 2009 re same issue http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=219541)

$ systemd-analyze blame
60486ms sm-client.service
60070ms sendmail.service
13915ms var-lib-nfs-rpc_pipefs.mount
11982ms fedora-loadmodules.service
8221ms udev-settle.service
7410ms mdmonitor-takeover.service
7409ms media.mount
7400ms sys-kernel-security.mount
7391ms sys-kernel-debug.mount
7382ms dev-mqueue.mount
7372ms dev-hugepages.mount
7262ms udev-trigger.service
7158ms udev.service
6816ms systemd-vconsole-setup.service
6741ms systemd-binfmt.service
6573ms fedora-readonly.service
5421ms systemd-remount-api-vfs.service
5416ms remount-rootfs.service
5299ms proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.mount
2790ms plymouth-start.service
2533ms sys-kernel-config.mount
2099ms fedora-storage-init.service
1607ms systemd-sysctl.service
905ms boot.mount
867ms NetworkManager.service
736ms netfs.service
736ms chronyd.service
720ms fedora-storage-init-late.service
618ms rsyslog.service
591ms ip6tables.service
417ms avahi-daemon.service
407ms systemd-logind.service
358ms systemd-readahead-replay.service
348ms systemd-readahead-collect.service
309ms iptables.service
298ms console-kit-log-system-start.service
292ms nfs-lock.service
281ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
262ms jexec.service
227ms auditd.service
204ms rtkit-daemon.service
190ms mcelog.service
181ms home.mount
176ms abrt-vmcore.service
166ms lvm2-monitor.service
149ms abrt-ccpp.service
140ms acpid.service
139ms sshd-keygen.service
134ms dbus.service
124ms irqbalance.service
103ms console-kit-daemon.service
103ms cryptsetup@luks\x2dd087ea2e\x2d29e1\...3d5b8fa.service
91ms sandbox.service
81ms fedora-wait-storage.service
60ms rpcbind.service
59ms nfs-idmap.service
47ms systemd-user-sessions.service

[weitjong]

For the sendmail.service, this post should help you to solve the problem. http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...02#post1511002. Perhaps, it would solve the sm-client.service problem as well.

[llobach]

Diasbled Sendmail service - but no change. There was no Sendmail log entry by the way. I'm wondering whether the issue is more to do with a delay in recognising my laptop keyboard during boot? I can't even ESC out og GUI until I can enter test into passphrase GUI, suggesting it is to do with hardware. No issues with other distros. Surely this cannot be the problem, can it?

[weitjong]

Err, after turning off the service(s), what does the "systemd-analyse blame" now report?

[llobach]

Sorry, remiss of me not to include the following output, boot time is still lengthy despite what you read with a long delay for the passphrase box accepting type input.

systemd-analyze blame
6284ms udev-settle.service
5804ms var-lib-nfs-rpc_pipefs.mount
5386ms mdmonitor-takeover.service
5386ms media.mount
5375ms sys-kernel-security.mount
5364ms sys-kernel-debug.mount
5363ms udev-trigger.service
5354ms dev-mqueue.mount
5344ms dev-hugepages.mount
4871ms fedora-loadmodules.service
4552ms udev.service
3608ms systemd-remount-api-vfs.service
3605ms remount-rootfs.service
3550ms systemd-vconsole-setup.service
2436ms fedora-readonly.service
1722ms sys-kernel-config.mount
952ms systemd-readahead-replay.service
942ms systemd-readahead-collect.service
914ms fedora-storage-init.service
849ms systemd-binfmt.service
728ms proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.mount
699ms systemd-sysctl.service
548ms NetworkManager.service
497ms fedora-storage-init-late.service
328ms boot.mount
318ms netfs.service
275ms avahi-daemon.service
268ms console-kit-log-system-start.service
261ms systemd-logind.service
250ms chronyd.service
234ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
230ms iptables.service
210ms auditd.service
192ms nfs-lock.service
182ms mcelog.service
164ms abrt-vmcore.service
151ms lvm2-monitor.service
149ms home.mount
146ms abrt-ccpp.service
139ms sshd-keygen.service
139ms acpid.service
134ms irqbalance.service
129ms dbus.service
115ms rtkit-daemon.service
102ms sandbox.service
93ms jexec.service
80ms console-kit-daemon.service
65ms nfs-idmap.service
65ms fedora-wait-storage.service
36ms cryptsetup@luks\x2dd087ea2e\x2d29e1\...3d5b8fa.service
26ms rpcbind.service
21ms systemd-user-sessions.service
0ms sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount

[weitjong]

Yes, agree. After re-reading your first post, I think I understand your problem better now. There is other reason causing the delay. Sorry for not able to help you much though.

But have you tried to boot in text mode? Can you type in the passphrase immediately after the prompt is visible in text mode? Are you able to use the keyboard while you are still in Grub menu?