"a start job is running for dev-disk-by...." for 1 minute 30 seconds

[scottbomb]

Recent install of 16.04. I was wondering why it took the machine so long to boot so I turned off "quiet splash" in grub. Now I see some sort of startup "job" that is delaying startup by exactly 1 min. 30 seconds... every time.

A start job is running for dev-disk-by\x2uuid-c5cc ... .device"

Anyone know what this is and how to fix it?

[Dennis N]

I would investigate what device this is. Is your code shown complete and correct? Partitions are referenced by /dev/disk/by-uuid/<some UUID>. It might be a partition where the UUID has been changed for some reason or perhaps no longer exists.

Use the command sudo blkid to see if anything matches the UUID displayed in the message. You could have a wrong UUID in your /etc/fstab.

The 90 seconds is the systemd default timeout, which can be changed, but changing the timeout time does not solve the problem.

[scottbomb]

I hate to say it, but something went wrong on that machine the other day and I had to reformat. I'll close this question for now. Thank you for the response. I wish I could test it.