If you install KaliLinux 2018.2 with LVM, slow boot problem happens. This article will describe a way to avoid this problem. If you install KaliLinux 2018.2 without LVM, this problem does not happen.
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1 Slow boot problem when using LVM
systemd-analyze shows that kernel boot time takes a lot of time.
$ systemd-analyze Startup finished in 34.539s (kernel) + 2.871s (userspace) = 37.410s graphical.target reached after 1.305s in userspace
The wait-for-root in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local times out after expiring 30 seconds.
[ 2.056198] random: lvm: uninitialized urandom read (2 bytes read) done. Begin: Running /scripts/local-premount ... Begin: Waiting for suspend/resume device ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-block ... done. Begin: Running /scripts/local-block ... done. [ 4.948882] random: fast init done Begin: Running /scripts/local-block ... done. <snip> Begin: Running /scripts/local-block ... done. done. Gave up waiting for suspend/resume device done. [ 34.841249] cryptd: max_cpu_qlen set to 1000
2 Avoid slow boot problem when using LVM
Assign device file path of LVM swap partition to RESUME. This is the same with /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume in Debian 9.
$ RESUME=$(sudo lvscan -q | awk '{ print $2 }' | \ sed -e "s/^'//g" -e "s/'$//g" | grep '/swap_1$') $ sudo sed -e 's/^RESUME=/#RESUME=/g' \ -i /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume $ echo "RESUME=${RESUME}" | sudo tee -a /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume
Recreate initrd and reboot system.
$ sudo update-initramfs -u $ sudo reboot
Kernel boot time is faster and you can use hibernation.
$ systemd-analyze Startup finished in 2.398s (kernel) + 1.255s (userspace) = 3.654s graphical.target reached after 1.240s in userspace