On 2023-10-17, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have 4 Ubuntu-based machines here and over the last 6 years I've > never seen a 1 minute delay to login, much less 5 minutes.
I see it all the time. Two minutes is the most common delay that I run into, but I've seen longer. The two-minute delay I frequently run into has usually got something to do with networking. For example, if one of the links is down, Ubuntu is really fond of waiting a couple mintues for it to come up before it finishes booting. [If it doesn't wait for all the network interfaces, how is it going to do all that cloudy crap nobody really wants?] People have been complaining about that one for years and years and years. There have been countless web pages written about it with almost as many different answers/suggestions. Here's a recent one: https://devicetests.com/fix-waiting-for-network-configuration-error-ubuntu-startup The really fun part is that since the methods used for configuring the network on Ubuntu change with the seasons, 95% of the suggested fixes you find are irrelevent even if they were on-target at one point. I've run into various other (less common) causes of Ubuntu boot delays, but it's usually waiting for "network configuration". And then there are the delays during shutdown... And how about the stupid #@$% "modem manager" that mucks with serial ports looking for dial-up modems. Yea, that still needs to be installed and enabled by default on every Ubuntu install on the planet... -- Grant
