[Solved]The time required to boot up from power on to Mint 20.2 screen 3 1/2 moments

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[Solved]The time required to boot up from power on to Mint 20.2 screen 3 1/2 moments

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The time required to boot up from power on to Mint 20.2 screen 3 1/2 moments. This seems excessive, or is this normal. What should I look for??

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a1@WorkStation-T7400:~$ inxi -Fxxxpmrz
System:
  Kernel: 5.4.0-91-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 
  Desktop: Cinnamon 5.0.7 wm: muffin 5.0.2 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 
  Distro: Linux Mint 20.2 Uma base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Dell product: Precision WorkStation T7400 v: N/A 
  serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 7 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Dell model: 0RW199 serial: <filter> BIOS: Dell v: A11 
  date: 04/30/2012 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 15.64 GiB used: 1.39 GiB (8.9%) 
  RAM Report: 
  permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Xeon E5430 bits: 64 type: MCP 
  arch: Penryn rev: 6 L2 cache: 6144 KiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 21279 
  Speed: 2145 MHz min/max: N/A Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2145 2: 2093 3: 2015 
  4: 2148 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA G80GL [Quadro FX 4600] driver: nvidia v: 340.108 
  bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 10de:019e 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: nvidia 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa resolution: 1920x1200~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Quadro FX 4600/PCIe/SSE2 v: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 340.108 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 631xESB/632xESB High Definition Audio vendor: Dell 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:269a 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-91-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Broadcom and subsidiaries NetXtreme BCM5754 Gigabit Ethernet PCI 
  Express 
  vendor: Dell driver: tg3 v: 3.137 port: cc00 bus ID: 08:00.0 
  chip ID: 14e4:167a 
  IF: enp8s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 2.00 TiB used: 22.32 GiB (1.1%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: MediaMax model: WL3000GSA6472E 1 size: 2.00 TiB 
  rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> rev: A5F0 scheme: MBR 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 109.95 GiB used: 21.03 GiB (19.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
  ID-2: /home size: 1.68 TiB used: 1.29 GiB (0.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 50 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 769 mobo: 1103 
Repos:
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 
  1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com uma main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main
  2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
  3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
  4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
  5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
  6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
Info:
  Processes: 213 Uptime: 5m Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: 
  gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 9 Shell: bash v: 5.0.17 running in: gnome-terminal 
  inxi: 3.0.38 
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Re: The time required to boot up from power on to Mint 20.2 screen 3 1/2 moments

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Please post the results of the following commands:

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blkid

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cat /etc/fstab

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systemd-analyze

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systemd-analyze blame

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systemd-analyze critical-chain
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Re: The time required to boot up from power on to Mint 20.2 screen 3 1/2 moments

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Many thanks, Larry78723 for your help!!! The terminal screen I closed so I would have blinking courser to paste the last 2 of your suggestions. What are you looking at so I may hope to understand for myself some day. Many, many thanks!

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a1@WorkStation-T7400:~$ blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="33db102b-6598-4846-b45e-f6ff0ddefa18" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="b2d56418-01"
/dev/sda3: UUID="6495c20c-d66f-4c8b-8a85-a71791d2b92f" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="b2d56418-03"
/dev/sda5: UUID="b6980aac-9571-48f4-a5e0-a86fd2ae69d9" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="b2d56418-05"
a1@WorkStation-T7400:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# / was on /dev/sdb1 during installation
UUID=33db102b-6598-4846-b45e-f6ff0ddefa18 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /home was on /dev/sdb3 during installation
UUID=6495c20c-d66f-4c8b-8a85-a71791d2b92f /home           ext4    defaults        0       2
/swapfile                                 none            swap    sw              0       0
a1@WorkStation-T7400:~$ systemd-analyze
Startup finished in 11.031s (kernel) + 23.744s (userspace) = 34.775s 
graphical.target reached after 18.683s in userspace
a1@WorkStation-T7400:~$ systemd-analyze blame
12.840s man-db.service                                                         >
 8.219s udisks2.service                                                        >
 7.962s networkd-dispatcher.service                                            >
 5.493s accounts-daemon.service                                                >
 5.189s systemd-journal-flush.service                                          >
 5.149s dev-sda1.device                                                        >
 4.950s logrotate.service                                                      >
 4.395s ubuntu-system-adjustments.service                                      >
 3.601s NetworkManager.service                                                 >
 3.593s avahi-daemon.service                                                   >
 3.503s polkit.service                                                         >
 3.347s lightdm.service                                                        >
 3.341s plymouth-quit-wait.service                                             >
 3.326s ModemManager.service                                                   >
 3.102s thermald.service                                                       >
 3.077s systemd-logind.service                                                 >
 3.076s apt-daily-upgrade.service                                              >
 3.075s wpa_supplicant.service                                                 >
 2.617s plymouth-start.service                                                 >
 2.027s gpu-manager.service                                                    >
 1.670s colord.service                                                         >
 1.650s ufw.service                                                            >
 1.463s grub-common.service                                                    >
 1.341s plymouth-read-write.service                                            >
 1.084s rsyslog.service                                                        >
  972ms e2scrub_reap.service                                                   >
  941ms systemd-modules-load.service                                           >
  894ms systemd-udevd.service                                                  >
  892ms hddtemp.service                                                        >
  805ms kerneloops.service                                                     >
  793ms lm-sensors.service                                                     >
  704ms alsa-restore.service                                                   >
  661ms systemd-resolved.service                                               >
  611ms apparmor.service                                                       >
  576ms grub-initrd-fallback.service                                           >
  547ms user@1000.service                                                      >
  533ms keyboard-setup.service                                                 >
  517ms systemd-random-seed.service                                            >
  511ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service                                     >
  481ms systemd-udev-trigger.service                                           >
  466ms systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-6495c20c\x2dd66f\x2d4c8b\x2d8a85\x2da7>
  456ms pppd-dns.service                                                       >
  427ms systemd-sysctl.service                                                 >
  385ms swapfile.swap                                                          >
  374ms modprobe@drm.service                                                   >
  367ms systemd-sysusers.service                                               >
  358ms lvm2-monitor.service                                                   >
  357ms upower.service                                                         >
  333ms networking.service                                                     >
  323ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service                                         >
  221ms systemd-journald.service                                               >
  187ms home.mount                                                             >
  168ms systemd-timesyncd.service                                              >
  155ms systemd-remount-fs.service                                             >
  142ms setvtrgb.service                                                       >
  100ms ifupdown-pre.service                                                   >
   82ms dns-clean.service                                                      >
   81ms dev-hugepages.mount                                                    >
   80ms dev-mqueue.mount                                                       >
   79ms sys-kernel-debug.mount                                                 >
   77ms sys-kernel-tracing.mount                                               >
   75ms blk-availability.service                                               >
   72ms kmod-static-nodes.service                                              >
   66ms systemd-update-utmp.service                                            >
   64ms console-setup.service                                                  >
   31ms systemd-user-sessions.service                                          >
   21ms rtkit-daemon.service                                                   >
   19ms systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service                                         >
   19ms user-runtime-dir@1000.service                                          >
   12ms systemd-update-utmp-runlevel.service                                   >
    6ms finalrd.service                                                        >
    5ms sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount                                          >
    5ms openvpn.service                                                        >
    4ms sys-kernel-config.mount                                                >
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a1@WorkStation-T7400:~$ systemd-analyze critical-chain
The time when unit became active or started is printed after the "@" character.
The time the unit took to start is printed after the "+" character.

graphical.target @18.683s
└─udisks2.service @10.463s +8.219s
  └─basic.target @9.924s
    └─sockets.target @9.924s
      └─uuidd.socket @9.924s
        └─sysinit.target @9.895s
          └─apparmor.service @8.531s +611ms
            └─local-fs.target @8.529s
              └─home.mount @8.341s +187ms
                └─systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-6495c20c\x2dd66f\x2d4c8b\x2d>
                  └─dev-disk-by\x2duuid-6495c20c\x2dd66f\x2d4c8b\x2d8a85\x2da71>
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