Well, I don’t see anything wrong in that journalctl output.
But before you start to think I am crazy, and my system must be fine, look:
> sudo systemd-analyze time
Startup finished in 2.222s (kernel) + 18min 37.627s (initrd) + 11.459s (userspace) = 18min 51.309s
Am I the only person trying to do an installation on an external SSD over USB 3.0?
I’ve got it!
It was the SATA to USB3 adapter/converter! They are not all created equal.
I switched to a different SATA to USB3 adapter (Insignia) and all is good now!
Booting up in like 20 s or so from powered off to logged in to my session.
8-D
Thank you to everyone who taught me some interesting commands.
Now I have to figure out how to mark this thread solved …
Ok, I guess there is no way to mark it SOLVED.
And in reality - it isn’t really solved - in a perfect world there would be some message from the system saying that there is a problem with the SATA to USB hardware - and some way to override that message and boot up quickly with that hardware because it does work fine eventually - but that is asking a lot.
At least I found a way around it and I hope that this information can be of use to anyone else who encounters this problem in the future.
Glad you found it I’d not guessed that from here 