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rpadovani
Asked: 2015-04-11 02:35:29 +0800 CST

powerd.service takes eternity to start at boot

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$ systemd-analyze blame
    1min 30.182s powerd.service
          7.348s plymouth-quit-wait.service
          7.270s NetworkManager-wait-online.service
          3.419s systemd-udev-settle.service
          1.639s apache2.service
          1.610s schroot.service
          1.029s mysql.service

(I dropped all things <1 sec)

What powerd.service is supposed to do? How can I speed it up?

I'm on a 64bit desktop, on vivid

boot

2 Answers

  1. I know Vivid isn't already supported, but I think problem is in all releases. Anyway, for future reference: powerd it's a service for phablet, so it's not available in standard installation.

    I opened a bug to report the strange behavior.

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  2. powerd is a daemon used to monitor a connected UPS, if one isn't connected this daemon will fail to start.

    http://www.linux-tutorial.info/modules.php?name=ManPage&sec=8&manpage=powerd

    it can be safely disabled and the package removed from the system with:

    $ sudo systemctl disable powerd.service

    or

    $ sudo apt remove powerd
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