a start job is running for dev-disk-by\x2uuid...

[acewiza]

Please excuse my feeble attempt to change the topic, but Is anybody yet prepared to declare the "start job running" behavior a friendly, welcome feature of systemd?

[GarryRicketson]

Not me, but I can't speak for others,...
I can say though, I have encountered the same/similar error, fortunately not
very often,...but in any event it has and can occur on non systemd systems
as well, Old Stable , Debian 7 wheezy,...I even have seen it on Debian 6

by sunrat » I had the same issue once. Easy fix once I worked out what the issue was. Edit fstab to reflect the new uuid as shown in blkid.
journalctl was useful to detect the issue.

The same worked for me, but I did not have or use 'journalctl ' to detect it.

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~$ journalctl
bash: journalctl: command not found
garry@debian:~$ man
What manual page do you want?
garry@debian:~$ man journalctl
No manual entry for journalctl
 

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But editing fstab worked.

by acewiza » Please excuse my feeble attempt to change the topic

Nice try though

[acewiza]

I did not ever see that particular error message until I was up to Jessie so, my WAG was a systemd behavior of some sort - obviously due to a startup configuration (likely hardware) the system was having a problem with...

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Is anybody yet prepared to declare the "start job running" behavior a friendly, welcome feature of systemd?

Yes

EDIT: also, rather than editing /etc/fstab every time the swap partition is reformatted, the swap line can instead be removed for GPT drives and systemd will then automount the partition irrespective of the UUID.

[Deb-fan]

^Which is kinda nice and thanks for informing me of this systemd feature Hoas.