On a laptop which was previously booting acceptably fast, in recent days it has been booting very slowly. I ran the boot analysis: $ sudo systemd-analyze blame 6.216s packagekit.service 5.664s lvm2-monitor.service 4.532s initrd-switch-root.service 3.694s cups.service 3.016s ldconfig.service 2.744s systemd-logind.service 2.507s systemd-hwdb-update.service Has anyone else seen packagekit and lvm2-monitor services causing slow boot times? There were threads from a couple of years ago where people had problems with lvm2-monitor, and if lvm was not being used, masking that service helped boot times improve (and shutdown times too. So I masked the lvm2-monitor service and the boot time is significantly improved: $ sudo systemd-analyze blame 1.722s cups.service 941ms initrd-switch-root.service 586ms systemd-journal-flush.service 529ms systemd-udevd.service 364ms packagekit.service I also found past threads that suggested that pacman 6 possibly causes some issues with packagekit, so I followed a suggestion to do: $ sudo rm -fr /var/lib/PackageKit/alpm $ sudo systemctl restart packagekit The shutdown time was taking over a minute prior to this, but seems to be improved after cleaning up the packagekit alpm directory. If anyone else has found similar issues and has any workaround to clean things up it would be useful to know about how it was done. These issues have occurred on two old laptops, but not on a relatively new laptop, so possibly some old files from previous versions of packages may have been underlying these issues. Are there any other cleanup suggestions that are needed to completely resolve this slow boot and shutdown issues that anyone is aware of? -- mike c
