Debian Boot Sequence [Withdrawn]

[llewellen]

Does apt-daily.service actually delay your desktop startup time?

As observed in the bug report, the time reported by `systemd-analyze` does *not* represent the time taken to achieve a usable desktop but rather indicates when all of the startup processes have finished.

Have you timed how long it takes for your box to show a login prompt with a stopwatch and compared it with the command output'?

Power on to login window = 70 seconds. Almost identical to what the command produced.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

^ Disable it then:

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# systemctl disable apt-daily{,-upgrade}.timer

It just runs `apt update` every day, see /usr/lib/apt/apt.systemd.daily for the gory details.

[llewellen]

Yes but as my previous quote from Ask Ubuntu said, perhaps it shouldn't be doing that during boot. The scripit that was proposed there would delay it running until after the boot finished. Do you agree with that approach or should I just kill it altogether since I do run apt update apt upgrade manually everyday anyway.

[llewellen]

Sorry, I just re-read you post and you advise to disable it. That's what I will do.

[llewellen]

I ran # systemctl disable apt-daily #but the boot still takes 65 seconds.

It's hanging up at a line:

/dev/sda2 : clean, 179382/30236672 files 3866965/120945920 blocks

???

[Head_on_a_Stick]

I ran # systemctl disable apt-daily

You have to disable the .timer units (there are two) rather than the .service (which is not directly enabled), see my last post for the command you need.

Check afterwards with:

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systemctl list-timers

[llewellen]

I ran # systemctl disable apt-daily

You have to disable the .timer units (there are two) rather than the .service (which is not directly enabled), see my last post for the command you need.

Check afterwards with:

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systemctl list-timers

Boot time is still taking approx 60-70 seconds from power to login

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 drew@dell:~$ su
Password: 
root@dell:/home/drew# systemctl disable apt-daily{,-upgrade}.timer
root@dell:/home/drew# systemctl list-timers
NEXT                         LEFT       LAST                         PASSED   UN
Sun 2018-05-27 16:20:14 PDT  9min left  n/a                          n/a      sy
Sun 2018-05-27 17:03:34 PDT  52min left Sun 2018-05-27 16:03:10 PDT  7min ago an

2 timers listed.
Pass --all to see loaded but inactive timers, too.
lines 1-6/6 (END)
 

Note: I ran the disable command and it showed two files as being removed but the boot time didn't change at all. So, I re-ran the disable command then ran list-timers.

[llewellen]

@Head_on_a_Stick: You have already spent an overly generous amount of time helping me with this and I don't want to impose on you any longer.

At the next Stable release I'm going to do a fresh install of that so I'm starting with a completely clean slate. I'm going to do a net install and then learn my way along as I install and add what I need.

In the meantime, a slow boot now with Testing is not a huge deal and I can live with it for the time being.

Thanks again