Updating: I commented out the swap partition in fstab, boot still took a long time, after boot, no swap was active. I didn't try other swap related suggestions such as mkswap.
The output of systemd-analyze critical-chain was not useful, as everything mentioned starts after 3min. The output of systemd-analyze blame seems more useful: # systemd-analyze blame 2min 55.271s systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-f81a6f4e\x2dd547\x2d41dc\x2d9ecf\x2dd1a5922d0aaa.service 11.396s wicd.service 7.838s exim4.service I don't know much about systemd, but the name seems to imply a file system check is been done on one or more partitions. Now I need to find out why does it think it needs to check it at every boot. Thanks for the help, Michael Biebl. -- Bruno Schneider