You have been subscribed to a public bug: Ubuntu 16.04 with LVM have delay around LVM mount.
$ dmesg <snip> [ 1.126338] FDC 0 is a S82078B [ 1.830136] tsc: Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 3392.321 MHz [ 1.830140] clocksource: tsc: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x30e5f904771, max_idle_ns: 440795373543 ns [ 6.984151] EXT4-fs (dm-0): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) [ 10.421370] systemd[1]: systemd 229 running in system mode. (+PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +APPARMOR +SMACK +SYSVINIT +UTMP +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +GNUTLS +ACL +XZ -LZ4 +SECCOMP +BLKID +ELFUTILS +KMOD -IDN) [ 10.421397] systemd[1]: Detected virtualization kvm. <snip> LVM partition will be activated by scripts/local-top/lvm2 in initrd. But scripts/local-top/lvm2 does not take care of resume variable which is set from UUID base RESUME. $ cat /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/lvm2 <snip> activate() { <snip> /dev/mapper/*) <snip> } activate "$ROOT" activate "$resume" <snip> And then, scripts/local-premount/resume in initrd will always wait 5 seconds for activating LVM swap. After mounting root filesystem, systemd will activate LVM swap. $ cat /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-premount/resume <snip> SWAPTYPE=$(wait-for-root "${resume}" ${RESUMEDELAY:-5}) <snip> RESUME is defined at /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume which is created by plugininstall.py. So plugininstall.py needs to support non-UUID base RESUME, e.g. RESUME=/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-swap_1. $ sudo su -c 'echo RESUME=/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-swap_1 \ > /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume' $ sudo update-initramfs -u && sudo reboot $ dmesg # after boot <snip> [ 1.095876] FDC 0 is a S82078B [ 1.507060] EXT4-fs (dm-0): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) [ 1.807522] tsc: Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 3392.321 MHz [ 1.807526] clocksource: tsc: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x30e5f904771, max_idle_ns: 440795373543 ns [ 2.648513] systemd[1]: systemd 229 running in system mode. (+PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +APPARMOR +SMACK +SYSVINIT +UTMP +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +GNUTLS +ACL +XZ -LZ4 +SECCOMP +BLKID +ELFUTILS +KMOD -IDN) [ 2.648542] systemd[1]: Detected virtualization kvm. ** Affects: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- UUID base RESUME always wait 5 seconds for activating LVM swap https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1581801 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to initramfs-tools in Ubuntu. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp