Concerning the "bootspeed" tag, the NM issue would be less noticable if "rc-local.service" was removed from "After=" in plymouth-quit.service. That way, my boot-to-graphical-login is a few seconds faster because plymouth is only visible for a very very short time instead of waiting up to 8 seconds for the network to come up. I did that using systemd override, and now my boot on kernel 4.4 is almost as fast as it was in 16.04.
Of course, technically the full boot including nmbd etc. still takes the same time because NM is still slow, but I don't really care if nmbd is up when I type my password into lightdm. The only thing that matters to me is that I can type my password and then fire up Chromium, by which time the network generally is ready to use in my case. But maybe there's a good reason for some people to have rc.local executed (and therefor network ready to use) before starting lightdm. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1622893 Title: NetworkManager takes very long to start, or times out, blocked on RNG Status in Auto Package Testing: Fix Released Status in gnutls28 package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu: New Status in network-manager package in Debian: New Bug description: Since a few days ago, NetworkManager.service takes awfully long to start, or even times out on failure and then gets restarted. This happens in a 16.10 desktop amd64 installation in QEMU, or e. g. in the systemd "boot-smoke" autopkgtest where every boot takes > 1:30 minutes due to the NM timeout. In the journal there is no actual logging from /usr/sbin/NetworkManager yet, just the start timeout. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10 Package: network-manager 1.2.2-0ubuntu8 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-9136.55-generic 4.4.16 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-9136-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu7 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: i3 Date: Tue Sep 13 10:05:05 2016 EcryptfsInUse: Yes IfupdownConfig: # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8) auto lo iface lo inet loopback source-directory interfaces.d NetworkManager.conf: [main] plugins=ifupdown,keyfile,ofono [ifupdown] managed=false NetworkManager.state: [main] NetworkingEnabled=true WirelessEnabled=true WWANEnabled=true WimaxEnabled=true SourcePackage: network-manager UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) nmcli-nm: RUNNING VERSION STATE STARTUP CONNECTIVITY NETWORKING WIFI-HW WIFI WWAN-HW WWAN running 1.2.2 connected started full enabled enabled enabled enabled enabled To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/auto-package-testing/+bug/1622893/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
