Due to space issues with my new GPU I had to remove a couple 2.5” SSDs from my current case. I grabbed a couple SATA to USB connectors to connect them when needed, but have faced issues with this method. Primarily whenever I have one of the drives connected while I start my PC, the boot process takes several minutes. All my drives, internal and external, are encrypted and the external ones are purely for data. The long boot sequence happens after I decrypt the internal system drive. I’m puzzled because the boot process obviously should not even touch those drives that are hooked to the USB ports. I tried both drives and both connectors, as well as different USB ports, but the issue persists.
I too am annoyed with longer boot times, feel free to chime in over here. This is most likely the problem and some workarounds you can do with the terminal (be careful if you do):
Systemd-udev-settle service is deprecated…but it is being used to to avoid black screen issues for some users as there are no other good alternatives yet. Something that really annoys me though is that if you press escape during the service when the circle keeps spinning to see what is actually going on- it will go into an infinite loop. You are forced to turn off the PC with power button risking potential data corruption.
After the failed band-aid “fix” for the sleep issues I’m a bit hesitant to experiment with more, especially since they could interfere with official updates in the future, making things even worse. This goes especially for things that potentially would lock me out of my system too.
Okay so I checked with Esc and while there’s a brief pause at it’s settle service, there’s a much longer one afterwards, constantly cycling between (1 of 2) Job smartd.service/start r… (Xs / 1min 7s): Initializing . . . and (2 of 2) Job tuned.service/start running (Xs / 1min 8s), pretty much eating up that whole minute before it continues to actually boot.
Edit: systemd-analyze blame gave me this:
1min 3.973s smartd.service
28.785s uupd.service
21.729s systemd-udev-settle.service
12.228s sys-module-fuse.device
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12.138s dev-disk-by\x2ddiskseq-2\x2dpart1.device
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12.138s dev-disk-by\x2dpath-pci\x2d0000:09:00.3\x2dusb\x2d0:2.4.1:1.0\x2dsc>
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000:09:00.3\x2dusbv3\x2d0:2.4.1:1.0\x2dscsi\x2d0:0:0:0\x2dpart1.device
000:09:00.3\x2dusb\x2d0:2.4.1:1.0\x2dscsi\x2d0:0:0:0\x2dpart-by\x2dpartnum-1.de>
000:09:00.3\x2dusb\x2d0:2.4.1:1.0\x2dscsi\x2d0:0:0:0\x2dpart-by\x2dpartuuid-9ed>
part1.device
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cron_Tech_DD5641988389C\x2d0:0\x2dpart1.device
00:08.1-0000:09:00.3-usb4-4\x2d2-4\x2d2.4-4\x2d2.4.1-4\x2d2.4.1:1.0-host7-targe>
002538f712050e3\x2dpart1.device
000:09:00.3\x2dusb\x2d0:2.4.1:1.0\x2dscsi\x2d0:0:0:0\x2dpart-by\x2duuid-015dbe1>
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250-serial8250:0-serial8250:0.2-tty-ttyS2.device
250-serial8250:0-serial8250:0.1-tty-ttyS1.device
:0-00:04:0.0-tty-ttyS0.device
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000:01:00.0\x2dnvme\x2d1\x2dpart-by\x2dpartnum-1.device
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000:01:00.0\x2dnvme\x2d1\x2dpart-by\x2dpartuuid-0565eec2\x2d1c4a\x2d49af\x2da2ed\x2d61a54730eb55.device
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000:01:00.0\x2dnvme\x2d1\x2dpart-by\x2duuid-0B60\x2dC88B.device
1min 3.973s smartd.service
28.785s uupd.service
21.729s systemd-udev-settle.service
12.228s sys-module-fuse.device
12.138s dev-disk-by\x2dpartuuid-9ed99d15\x2d7210\x2dc14a\x2d8048\x2df6bede61d396.device
12.138s dev-disk-by\x2dpath-pci\x2d0000:09:00.3\x2dusb\x2d0:2.4.1:1.0\x2dscsi\x2d0:0:0:0\x2dpart1.device
12.138s dev-disk-by\x2dpath-pci\x2d0000:09:00.3\x2dusbv3\x2d0:2.4.1:1.0\x2dscsi\x2d0:0:0:0\x2dpart1.device
12.138s dev-disk-by\x2dpath-pci\x2d0000:09:00.3\x2dusb\x2d0:2.4.1:1.0\x2dscsi\x2d0:0:0:0\x2dpart-by\x2dpartnum-1.device
12.138s dev-disk-by\x2dpath-pci\x2d0000:09:00.3\x2dusb\x2d0:2.4.1:1.0\x2dscsi\x2d0:0:0:0\x2dpart-by\x2dpartuuid-9ed99d15\x2d7210\x2dc14a\x2d8048\x2df6bede61d396.device
12.138s dev-disk-by\x2ddiskseq-2\x2dpart1.device
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12.138s dev-sda1.device
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11.875s sys-devices-LNXSYSTM:00-LNXSYBUS:00-MSFT0101:00-tpm-tpm0.device
11.875s dev-tpm0.device
11.865s sys-devices-LNXSYSTM:00-LNXSYBUS:00-MSFT0101:00-tpmrm-tpmrm0.device
11.865s dev-tpmrm0.device
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9.341s systemd-cryptsetup@luks\x2d1c480fc7\x2d2894\x2d4d01\x2da311\x2d824b39bad3be.service
3.045s NetworkManager-wait-online.service
1.863s greenboot-healthcheck.service
1.293s initrd-switch-root.service
1.009s systemd-rfkill.service
865ms systemd-binfmt.service
790ms firewalld.service
561ms input-remapper.service
503ms upower.service
450ms tuned.service
446ms systemd-resolved.service
432ms systemd-oomd.service
388ms udisks2.service
377ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
366ms systemd-udev-trigger.service
345ms polkit.service
311ms accounts-daemon.service
298ms bootloader-update.service
287ms systemd-logind.service
255ms waydroid-container.service
212ms user@1000.service
211ms NetworkManager.service
197ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev-early.service
180ms systemd-udevd.service
158ms systemd-journal-flush.service
147ms tuned-ppd.service
143ms ModemManager.service
121ms systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service
121ms chronyd.service
104ms var-lib-nfs-rpc_pipefs.mount
97ms boot.mount
90ms dev-zram0.swap
87ms dbus-broker.service
82ms avahi-daemon.service
78ms systemd-nsresourced.service
76ms audit-rules.service
73ms dracut-cmdline.service
68ms lvm2-monitor.service
66ms systemd-modules-load.service
66ms systemd-journald.service
63ms bluetooth.service
62ms dracut-pre-udev.service
62ms systemd-hostnamed.service
57ms systemd-vconsole-setup.service
56ms logrotate.service
55ms systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-8616b453\x2d60bd\x2d42f4\x2dad3a\x2d53ff3f559899.service
54ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
52ms authselect-apply-changes.service
52ms unbound-anchor.service
51ms systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-0B60\x2dC88B.service
51ms boot-efi.mount
49ms virtqemud.service
49ms virtlxcd.service
48ms rpm-ostreed.service
46ms auditd.service
46ms lm_sensors.service
45ms gssproxy.service
45ms virtvboxd.service
45ms cups.service
45ms plymouth-quit-wait.service
44ms plymouth-quit.service
43ms usr-share-sddm-themes.mount
42ms dracut-pre-trigger.service
40ms switcheroo-control.service
37ms plymouth-read-write.service
36ms tmp.mount
1min 3.973s smartd.service
28.785s uupd.service
21.729s systemd-udev-settle.service
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Just use sudo systemctl mask systemd-udev-settle this will prevent the process from loading altogether.
You can undo it later if need be with sudo systemctl unmask systemd-udev-settle
I got tired of waiting…and tested it…so good to have a faster boot that won’t hang randomly now.
Did you completely ignore anything I wrote?! It’s not about the 20 seconds wait time from the settle service, it’s about the additional 1 minute wait time that comes on top of that when I have my external drive plugged in during boot!
I was assuming your issue came into play after recent updates. I would give the workaround a try first and see if it makes a difference or not.
You said you had a couple of external drives in the original post. If you think of it this way: 20 seconds added to ‘systemd settle’ for each drive (main + two)…you end up with an extra minute for boot time, no?
I believe that until tested, these things should be viewed together as the same issue not separately. Feel free to prove me wrong. 
No, my issue came into play after removing my internal drives, which I explained in the thread opener. The 20 second wait has been there pretty much the entire time I was using Bazzite and is what I perceived as normal and maybe due to the encryption process taking a while.
I also never said that I have both drives plugged in. I said that the long boot time happens when I have any of them plugged in. I also, just before your recent reply, said the minute long wait is in addition to the 20 second wait from the settle service. So it’s not 20 seconds, not 1 minute, but 1:20 minutes I’m sitting there on boot if a drive is plugged in.
And lastly, I don’t have to “prove you wrong” when you’re clearly not bothering to actually read properly, as it’s already proven by what I provided. With that kind of attitude I would also suggest to stay away from people’s support requests in general, because you’re just wasting their time and come off in a not particularly nice way.
This looks pretty normal to me. Because the udev-settle service for example is a just a service that waits until all the udev events have completed and all hardware is located/found and configured. This can happen with external harddrives that are connected through usb.
This service calls udevadm settle to wait until all events that have been queued by udev(7) have been processed. It is a crude way to wait until “all” hardware has been discovered. Services may pull in this service and order themselves after it to wait for the udev queue to be empty.
Using this service is not recommended. There can be no guarantee that hardware is fully discovered at any specific time, because the kernel does hardware detection asynchronously, and certain buses and devices take a very long time to become ready, and also additional hardware may be plugged in at any time. Instead, services should subscribe to udev events and react to any new hardware as it is discovered. Services that, based on configuration, expect certain devices to appear, may warn or report failure after a timeout. This timeout should be tailored to the hardware type. Waiting for systemd-udev-settle.service usually slows boot significantly, because it means waiting for all unrelated events too.
In my experience if the udev-settle service gets “stuck” its somekind of issue with usually some external hardware or accessory.
And those “disk services” in the systemd-blame look like just that its working on the hard drives.
So you’re saying settle.service is causing smartd.service & tuned.service to slow my boot time, even though they run at totally different times? Then why did none of this happen when I had those drives plugged in through my SATA ports? Why does it not happen with my M.2 drive?
Because I just used the mask command for it - and it still happens! Furthermore, tuned.service is also slowing down the shut-down time by about 30 seconds when the external drive is plugged in.
So this is, as I suspected, clearly not caused by settle.service.
WEll the smartd service is related to the disks too.
Not sure about the tuned as it takes only milliseconds (atleast in your blame paste).
As I’ve explained, smartd and tuned both cycle back & forth in red for about a minute during boot.
Just rebased to :testing for another issue (RX 6800: gfx ring timeout and GPU reset under high load (SMU driver/firmware version mismatch) · Issue #4464 · ublue-os/bazzite · GitHub) and this might be fixed there.