Hi,
I am new to openSUSE. My system seems to start slowly, about 90 seconds >:(
I use systemd-analyze blame and I see that storage-after-cryptsetup.service and lvm.service take a long time to start. I am thinking about shut those off because as I read, I dont use use encrypted partition.
If my system does not boot because of those, can I make them boot like normal?
I want to make sure before trying 
Thanks lol!
Hello and welcome here.
Please, allways tell what version of openSUSE you are using when asking questions or explaining problems. The fact that you talk about systemd may lead to the conslusion that you are using 12.1 (andthat only because it is at tthe moment the only supported one with systemd by incident), but it is better that you simply say so then that others have find out by reading your post from top to bottom even before the start to assess your problem.
Also it is allways better to show instead of only to tell. That means that in this case it would probably be better to post the output of your analysing tool. And please, post any computer text beteen CODE tags (http://forums.opensuse.org/english/information-new-users/advanced-how-faq-read-only/451526-posting-code-tags-guide.html), I ask this because that feature is not easy to find, but instrumental in the corrct interpretation of copied/pasted computer text.
Have a look in YaST>System>System services to see if you can turn some of them off there.
On 2012-06-20 17:36, dpdh wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am new to openSUSE. My system seems to start slowly, about 90 seconds
>> 
> I use systemd-analyze blame and I see that
> storage-after-cryptsetup.service and lvm.service take a long time to
> start. I am thinking about shut those off because as I read, I dont use
> use encrypted partition.
If they take to long and you are not using lvm nor encripted partition, the
interesting thing would be determining why they take so long and report the
bug or correct the wrong configuration.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
Also wold help if you show output of fdisk -l (as root and that is a lower case L not a one)
Maybe you do have a encrypted LVM partition. It would help to know for sure.
Thanks hcw for the guide and others for replying 
It is openSUSE 12.1
Here the output results
systemd-analyze blame
29343ms storage-after-cryptsetup.service
22496ms lvm.service
14815ms remount-rootfs.service
12611ms systemd-vconsole-setup.service
6668ms bootsplash-startup.service
6611ms localnet.service
5354ms media.mount
5330ms var-run.mount
5154ms var-lock.mount
5102ms dev-hugepages.mount
5083ms udev-trigger.service
5074ms dev-mqueue.mount
5050ms sys-kernel-security.mount
5026ms sys-kernel-debug.mount
4891ms systemd-remount-api-vfs.service
3235ms systemd-sysctl.service
1368ms windows-D.mount
1151ms windows-C.mount
1109ms windows-E.mount
1108ms systemd-logind.service
1041ms bootsplash-quit.service
819ms syslog.service
508ms systemd-readahead-replay.service
504ms SuSEfirewall2_setup.service
484ms systemd-readahead-collect.service
460ms udev.service
396ms cpufreq.service
391ms brld.service
391ms purge-kernels.service
383ms microcode.ctl.service
379ms fbset.service
375ms SuSEfirewall2_init.service
375ms console-kit-log-system-start.service
328ms systemd-user-sessions.service
327ms rc-local.service
291ms network.service
232ms avahi-daemon.service
212ms dbus.service
204ms NetworkManager.service
197ms console-kit-daemon.service
159ms autofs.service
156ms cups.service
156ms network-remotefs.service
141ms xdm.service
136ms acpid.service
128ms splash_early.service
127ms bluez-coldplug.service
127ms splash.service
124ms sbl.service
116ms quota.service
109ms nscd.service
75ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
64ms sshd.service
24ms sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount
fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x6e186e18
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 63 235121094 117560516 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 235122688 337522687 51200000 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 * 337522688 484200447 73338880 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda4 484202496 488397167 2097336 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda5 337524736 463892479 63183872 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda6 463894528 484200447 10152960 83 Linux
On 2012-06-21 08:46, dpdh wrote:
>
> Thanks hcw for the guide and others for replying
> It is openSUSE 12.1
> Here the output results
>
> systemd-analyze blame
I personally prefer “systemd-analyze plot > plotfile.svg”. If you do, post
the svg, do not convert to png.
You should look in the log to find out why those services take so long. If
they are waiting while other services run, then it might not matter.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
I was planning on using system-analyze plot but I got an error
systemd-analyze plot > plotfile.svg
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/systemd-analyze", line 113, in <module>
import cairo, os
ImportError: No module named cairo
Seeing the 29 and 22 secs and your partitioninng table, I am realy interested now if you use LVM. Thus I would like to see he output of
df -h
BTW you do not seem to have a seperate* /home* partition.
On 2012-06-21 11:36, dpdh wrote:
> Oops, I got error
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> systemd-analyze plot > plotfile.svg
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File “/usr/bin/systemd-analyze”, line 113, in <module>
> import cairo, os
> ImportError: No module named cairo
>
>
>
> --------------------
Wow. No idea…
#!/usr/bin/python
....
elif sys.argv[1] == 'plot':
import cairo, os
someone that knows python may know. I have these installed:
Elanor:~ # rpm -qa | grep -i cairo
python-gobject-cairo-3.0.2-2.3.1.x86_64
libcairo2-1.10.2-14.1.3.x86_64
libcairomm-1_0-1-1.10.0-4.1.3.x86_64
python-cairo-1.10.0-3.1.3.x86_64
libcairo-gobject2-1.10.2-14.1.3.x86_64
libcairo2-32bit-1.10.2-14.1.3.x86_64
Elanor:~ #
I did not select them to be installed myself.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
Am 21.06.2012 11:36, schrieb dpdh:
> import cairo, os
> ImportError: No module named cairo
>
Is python-cairo installed? If not install it.
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ThinkPad E320: oS 12.1 x86_64 | i3@2.30GHz | 8GB | KDE 4.8.4 | HD 3000
eCAFE 800: oS 12.1 i586 | AMD Geode LX 800@500MHz | 512MB | KDE 3.5.10
Thanks, I will try to install python-cairo.
Yah, I dont have /home separately, may it cause any problem??
linux-04rx:~ # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 9.6G 3.9G 5.2G 43% /
devtmpfs 1.5G 8.0K 1.5G 1% /dev
tmpfs 1.5G 1.8M 1.5G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 1.5G 788K 1.5G 1% /run
/dev/sda6 9.6G 3.9G 5.2G 43% /
tmpfs 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /media
tmpfs 1.5G 788K 1.5G 1% /var/run
tmpfs 1.5G 788K 1.5G 1% /var/lock
/dev/sda1 113G 86G 27G 77% /windows/C
/dev/sda5 61G 55G 5.5G 92% /windows/E
/dev/sda2 49G 48G 1.8G 97% /windows/D
Thanks for posting. It shows that you indeed do not use LVM.
And no. Not having a seperate* /home *is no problem, not in connection with this case. But it is generaly seen as usefull because you then can install/upgrade your system while keeping all of your users data nicely seperated in a file system that will not change for one bit during that (re)install. It is also the default when installing.
And I personaly value the seperation between system data and the data of the users simply as a neat and secure feature.
On 2012-06-21 18:26, hcvv wrote:
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> Thanks for posting. It shows that you indeed do not use LVM.
Then he needs to look at the log.
> And no. Not having a seperate- /home -is no problem, not in connection
> with this case. But it is generaly seen as usefull because you then can
> install/upgrade your system while keeping all of your users data nicely
> seperated in a file system that will not change for one bit during that
> (re)install. It is also the default when installing.
> And I personaly value the seperation between system data and the data
> of the users simply as a neat and secure feature.
Absolutely… but he is dedicating less than 10 GB to Linux. In such a case
I don’t recommend a separate /home.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
Thanks to martin_helm, I have installed python-cairo
systemd-analyze plot > boot.svg
The file boot.svg is here
Btw, how do you know that I dont use LVM base on the result? And base on error message such as “no module name cairo” like before, how to figure out which package is missing?
(I use yast to find packages with “cairo” and it shows ton of them, dont know what to choose!)
ps: do I ask a lot!?
fdisk -l told us the type of partitions LVM has its own unique number ID
Am 22.06.2012 03:26, schrieb dpdh:
> And base
> on error message such as “no module name cairo” like before, how to
> figure out which package is missing?
martinh@ganymed:~> file /usr/bin/systemd-analyze
/usr/bin/systemd-analyze: a /usr/bin/python script, ASCII text
shows that systemd-analyze is a python script, so it has to be a missing
module in python.
From experience the python modules are in packages named
python-something, from that the conclusion was easy.
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As @gogalthorp says: the partition type tells if there is any partition that is ment to be used for LVM. If this is done is something else, but at boot the Kernel will at least check there.
The df -h will show if you have any file system mounted from an LVM logical volume. They will not show as* /dev/sd*…, but as /dev/mapper/…
The second may look as being superfluous after you checked the first. But there are other possibilities to use LVM then based on partitions.
Thanks, I have learn many new things 
That is the correct spirit! Do not try to much at a time, but asking when you can not follow our strain of thoughts is a good thing to increase knowledge IMHO.