thank you for the clarification and the suggestion. i was confused by the timeout occurring after the message "Monitoring 38 ATA/SATA, 0 SCSI/SAS and 0 NVMe devices" as that seemed to indicate a successful startup.
it appears to have been just the number of devices, not an issue with any particular one. raising the timeout gave `smartd` time to start properly. thanks again, this report can be closed as not-a-bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1888009 Title: smartmontools.service: start operation timed out. Terminating. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/smartmontools/+bug/1888009/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
