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10 questions linked to/from Slow boot - "a start job is running for dev-disk-by..."
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Resizing Virtual drive [duplicate]
I am running Ubuntu as a guest on an iMac with VirtualBox version 4.1.8.
What is the easiest way to resize the virtual drive?
Please provide as much detail as possible including the correct format ...
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Mostly unable to boot when [ ***] A start job is running for... FOREVER!
A mostly clean install of Ubuntu 20.04 occasionally boots quickly and flawlessly, but almost always hangs during boot. Sometimes it will boot 1 out of 3 times, other times I reboot 10+ times, spending ...
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Xubuntu User Space boot takes very long
I found similar topics regarding slow kernel boot but my problem is that my system takes 3 minutes to load the userspace
systemd-analyze gives the following output
Startup finished in 4.247s (...
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Ubuntu 19.10 - Long Boot Time
my PC recently had a head crash and I thought: Well, now you can try 19.10 instead of 18.04.
The beta ran well - but after release of 19.10 I realized my laptop taking about a minute to boot to login....
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Slow boot time after resizing partitions. Editing fstab did not work
I am having problems similar to those described in Boot much slower after partition resize. To summarise I repartitioned my hard drive to get more space in /. To do this I deleted the swap space, ...
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Ubuntu taking too long to boot (8-10 minutes)
I have Ubuntu 20.04 (triple boot w Windows 10/kali 2020.4) on a Lenovo machine.
Here is my Hardware Information:
RAM - 8GB
Disk Type - SSD
Disk Space - 50 GB
Architecture - amd64
Processor - Intel(...
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edit /etc/fstab from another system
I was trying to resolve a "slow boot" issue on my ubuntu-Windows-dual boot machine.
Slow boot - "a start job is running for dev-disk-by..."
I have edited the fstab file but accidentally ...
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Slow boot and gparted Ubuntu 18.04
I am new to Ubuntu and have dual boot Windows 10 & Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Firstly, everything was running fine, but after one update, Ubuntu started to boot extremely slow. After a couple of hours ...
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19.04 Login Loop after changing boot logo
To rid myself of an annoying Budgie icon during boot (leftover from when I installed and then removed the Budgie desktop environment), I issued this command : sudo update-alternatives --config default....
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Ubuntu black screen after booting
I updated mi ubuntu that has an Nvidia graphic car, after updating when I rebooted the computer it tries to boot but then a black screen appears.
With a live cd I entered to the "Try ubuntu without ...
