Slow boot with errors....

[Furycd001]

HI. As of the past week or so my system has been a tad slow to boot and I now see "this error" on boot. I'm running 16.04.06 & have not changed anything on my system recently. Please halp thank you.

[Bashing-om]

jonny6; Hello

As a start; I would confirm that the referenced UUID in fact does not exist:

ls /dev/disk/by-uuid -alh

Then see what in fact does exist:

sudo fdisk -lu
sudo blkid -c /dev/null -o list
cat /etc/fstab

in an effort to find out where the numbers do not match - and why.

we can do that

[Furycd001]

Thank you for replying. I ran each command and piped the output to termbin.com. That way everything stayed intact. Click on each command below to see the output....

ls /dev/disk/by-uuid -alh


sudo fdisk -lu << This command also output "Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary".


sudo blkid -c /dev/null -o list


cat /etc/fstab

[Bashing-om]

jonny6 - Hummm ...

Surprise - surprise the swap partition is identified !.. so far so well. So - why the system screaming so about the swap partition ?

what shows:

swapon --summary

as I do note there was a disk change from the initial install from sdb to sda --- but the UUID is correct in /etc/fstab.

the hunt is on and

inquiring minds want to know

[Furycd001]

swapon --summary

When I installed the system I done it through the mini.iso. Maybe something might just not be installed ??

[Bashing-om]

jonny6; Hummmm ...

No issue there either - down the rabbit hole - deeper - we go

Let's look:
Does this file exist ?

ls -al /etc/uswsusp.conf

I do not expect that it does.

How about here ?

cat /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume

Where the listed UUID should be the same as in the swap line in the /etc/fstab file.

got to be a reason

[Rubi1200]

Can we please see the output for the following:

journalctl -b | grep swap

[Furycd001]

Can we please see the output for the following:

journalctl -b | grep swap

journalctl -b | grep swap

[Rubi1200]

So, here is an interesting discrepancy from all the various outputs you have posted.

All the various commands, including the one I asked for, show /root as being on sda1 and swap on sda5.

But, here is the thing: fstab shows something else https://prnt.sc/nzumon

fstab says /root was on sdb1 and swap on sdb5, very curious since all the other outputs show sda1 and sda5 respectively.

How have you been booting until now without errors?

Was the original install on another drive and you changed it perhaps?

[Furycd001]

So, here is an interesting discrepancy from all the various outputs you have posted.

All the various commands, including the one I asked for, show /root as being on sda1 and swap on sda5.

But, here is the thing: fstab shows something else https://prnt.sc/nzumon

fstab says /root was on sdb1 and swap on sdb5, very curious since all the other outputs show sda1 and sda5 respectively.

How have you been booting until now without errors?

Was the original install on another drive and you changed it perhaps?

Ok So originally I had default xubuntu installed, but it was kind of bloat from the amount of software & stuff that I installed over time. I went and done a full re-install using the the 16.04 Netboot iso on a usb drive. I booted the usb as usual and went through the installation selecting the minimal xubuntu option & selecting to wipe the drive in the partition setup stage. Everything went fine and I've been using the system daily until these errors started showing on boot. I've not moved any drives or plugged anything into the computer other than my usb mouse, usb hd for backups & usb pendrive for copying files. There was only two things plugged into the computer during the installation. The usb mouse & the usb pendrive to do the installation....