This article will describe a workaround for slow issue of plymouth-quit-wait.
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1 Slow issue of plymouth-quit-wait
The plymouth-quit-wait takes a time to be completed (or be failed?). This will not make SSH and login to be delayed, but will make systemd to be delayed.
$ systemd-analyze
Startup finished in 614ms (kernel) + 1.361s (initrd) + 29.098s (userspace) = 31.074s
$ systemd-analyze blame
22.161s plymouth-quit-wait.service
5.414s firewalld.service
2.244s libvirtd.service
1.058s systemd-udev-settle.service
2 Workaround: uninstall plymouth
The plymouth provides graphical progress bar of starting system. If you do not need graphical progress bar, uninstalling plymouth will avoid plymouth-quit-wait.
$ sudo dnf remove -y plymouth
After reboot, systemd-analyze result will be improved.
$ sudo reboot $ systemd-analyze Startup finished in 615ms (kernel) + 1.077s (initrd) + 2.401s (userspace) = 4.095s