Kenneth Parker, on 2019-08-09: > On Fri, Aug 9, 2019, 11:30 AM Curt Howland <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi. New Buster install. > > > > While X11 is working just fine, the console is unusable, due to a > > startup message that never stops: > > > > [ ***] A start job is running for Hold until boot process finishes (2h 54m > > 38s / no limit) > > > > This goes on until the laptop is shut down. > > > > How do I find the errant process? The start-up messages fly by, but I > > don't see any failures, or any indication of what process it is that > > won't stop starting.
Good day
You may be able to get a few information out of the following,
maybe see what's on hold:
$ sudo systemctl list-units
But it is the first time I hear about this specific "start job"
"running for Hold" behaviour. I'm not sure about what to look
at. A blind shot at the following might bring some additional
information too:
$ sudo journalctl -xe
In case you were encountering some hardware issue (but I doubt
so for the moment), perhaps a look at the following could be
welcome:
$ sudo dmesg
And of course, from Kenneth:
> Are any of your File Systems out of space?
Kind regards,
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Étienne Mollier <[email protected]>
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