Bug#765784: systemd: Very slow boot time (4 Minutes).

2014-10-23 Thread mabo
I mounted the drive on my Debian stable system and deleted the '/tmp' directory. The boot sequence and time is back to normal now, thanks very much for the help! -- Regards Marc

Bug#765784: systemd: Very slow boot time (4 Minutes).

2014-10-22 Thread Marc Bonnor
The command ls -l /tmp also blocks ... The line before the lines shown in the file extract has an odd looking path //tmp, do you think this may be problem ? The st_size=117604352 looks very large, is this normal, does it represent free disk space? 18:58:28 stat(//tmp,

Bug#765784: systemd: Very slow boot time (4 Minutes).

2014-10-22 Thread Uoti Urpala
On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 18:23:54 +1100 Marc Bonnor ma...@iprimus.com.au wrote: The command ls -l /tmp also blocks ... That pretty much confirms that it is a filesystem problem not directly related to systemd. The line before the lines shown in the file extract has an odd looking path //tmp, do

Bug#765784: systemd: Very slow boot time (4 Minutes).

2014-10-21 Thread Marc Bonnor
I have run the strace command as suggested and attached the output. I added the -t option to add a time stamp, the 4 minute delay shows up very clearly. The iotop man page describes the accumulate option; -a, --accumulated Show accumulated I/O instead of bandwidth. In this mode, iotop shows

Bug#765784: systemd: Very slow boot time (4 Minutes).

2014-10-21 Thread Uoti Urpala
Marc Bonnor wrote: I have run the strace command as suggested and attached the output. 18:58:28 open(/tmp, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_NOFOLLOW|O_NOATIME|O_CLOEXEC) = 4 18:58:28 fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISVTX|0777, st_size=117604352, ...}) = 0 18:58:28 fcntl(4, F_GETFL)

Bug#765784: systemd: Very slow boot time (4 Minutes).

2014-10-18 Thread Uoti Urpala
Marc Bonnor wrote: I have also poked around in the debug shell during boot and there is almost no cpu activity and the systemd-tmpfiles command has statuts 'D' uniteruptable sleep. I used iotop to view io activity during the boot and this 'Executing: /bin /systemd-tmpfiles --create --remove