Disable plymouth and boot much faster than before!
My workstation took more than a minute to boot into X
$ systemd-analyze time
Startup finished in 1.890s (kernel) + 4.702s (initrd) + 1min 20.163s (userspace) = 1min 26.756s
graphical.target reached after 58.148s in userspace
By disable plymouth at boot and in the initrd, I got much better result
$ systemd-analyze time
Startup finished in 1.911s (kernel) + 4.646s (initrd) + 37.884s (userspace) = 44.442s
graphical.target reached after 37.870s in userspace
Clean-up journal logs
Pfu.. seem size limit of journal log are almost reaching 2 GB
$ du -h /var/log/journal/ | tail -n 1
1.8G /var/log/journal/
I want to clean this logs. Now flush all journal data from /run into /var
$ journalctl --flush
Check and verify our logs condition are PASS or FAILED
$ journalctl --verify
How was the result? Looking good? let’s free some space of archived journal files and only store 1 week logs
$ journalctl --vacuum-size=30M
$ journalctl --vacuum-time=1weeks
By default the global journal configuration of The maximum size of the persistent journal aka SystemMaxUse are commented
$ grep SystemMaxUse /etc/systemd/journald.conf
#SystemMaxUse=
You can uncommenting and put some value, eg SystemMaxUse=30M, but I prefer to use the drop-in snippets configuration override mechanism rather than editing the global configuration file.
$ sudo mkdir -p /etc/systemd/journald.conf.d/
$ sudo touch /etc/systemd/journald.conf.d/00-journal-size.conf
$ sudo bash -c 'cat > /etc/systemd/journald.conf.d/00-journal-size.conf << 'EOF'
[Journal]
SystemMaxUse=30M
EOF'
You can change the value 30M to what ever size you prefered. To apply the new limit, you need to restart the services as superuser.
$ systemctl status systemd-journald.service
$ sudo systemctl restart systemd-journald.service
$ systemctl status systemd-journald.service
What the heck is "Bolt.services"
Hurm.. I notice slow boot startup on my Fedora 28 workstation
[rnm@robbinespu (/home/rnm)]
$ systemd-analyze time
Startup finished in 1.890s (kernel) + 4.702s (initrd) + 1min 20.163s (userspace) = 1min 26.756s
graphical.target reached after 58.148s in userspace
So plymouth-quit-wait service took more than 25 seconds and.. bolt services also part of the culprit
[rnm@robbinespu (/home/rnm)]
$ systemd-analyze blame | head
25.124s bolt.service
25.118s plymouth-quit-wait.service
13.389s firewalld.service
12.672s akmods.service
11.922s udisks2.service
11.453s accounts-daemon.service
9.690s vmware.service
9.125s lvm2-monitor.service
8.730s dkms.service
8.085s systemd-udev-settle.service
I never heard of bolt.services , it’s apparently a Thunderbolt system deamon to manage thunderbolt 3 devices.
[rnm@robbinespu (/home/rnm)]
$ dnf info bolt
Last metadata expiration check: 2 days, 6:51:24 ago on Sat 01 Sep 2018 09:06:59 AM +08.
Installed Packages
Name : bolt
Version : 0.4
Release : 1.fc28
Arch : x86_64
Size : 281 k
Source : bolt-0.4-1.fc28.src.rpm
Repo : @System
From repo : updates-testing
Summary : Thunderbolt device manager
URL : https://github.com/gicmo/bolt
License : LGPLv2+
Description : bolt is a system daemon to manage thunderbolt 3 devices via a D-BUS
: API. Thunderbolt 3 features different security modes that require
: devices to be authorized before they can be used. The D-Bus API can be
: used to list devices, enroll them (authorize and store them in the
: local database) and forget them again (remove previously enrolled
: devices). It also emits signals if new devices are connected (or
: removed). During enrollment devices can be set to be automatically
: authorized as soon as they are connected. A command line tool, called
: boltctl, can be used to control the daemon and perform all the above
: mentioned tasks.
I don’t know and where it comes and apparently active on my system
[rnm@robbinespu (/home/rnm)]
$ systemctl status bolt.service
● bolt.service
Loaded: masked (/dev/null; masked)
Active: active (running) since Mon 2018-09-03 14:11:53 +08; 1h 50min ago
Main PID: 1946 (boltd)
Tasks: 3 (limit: 4915)
Memory: 1.7M
CGroup: /system.slice/bolt.service
└─1946 /usr/libexec/boltd
Sep 03 14:11:28 robbinespu systemd[1]: Starting Thunderbolt system service...
Sep 03 14:11:28 robbinespu boltd[1946]: bolt 0.4 starting up.
Sep 03 14:11:28 robbinespu boltd[1946]: config: loading user config
Sep 03 14:11:53 robbinespu boltd[1946]: store: loading devices
Sep 03 14:11:53 robbinespu boltd[1946]: power: force_power support: no
Sep 03 14:11:53 robbinespu boltd[1946]: udev: enumerating devices
Sep 03 14:11:53 robbinespu systemd[1]: Started Thunderbolt system service.
Sep 03 15:58:43 robbinespu systemd[1]: bolt.service: Current command vanished from the unit file, execution of the command list won't be resumed.
Even though I don’t appear to have any Thunderbolt devices…
[rnm@robbinespu (/home/rnm)]
$ boltctl list
As quick solution let just permanently disable the service.
[rnm@robbinespu (/home/rnm)]
$ systemctl mask bolt
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/bolt.service → /dev/null
Patching file with diff and patch
How to do file patch without VCS?
There is a way but it quite complicated and people tend to do mistake when handling lot of files / directory but sometimes developer don’t have connection to VCS and we don’t have any option.. ;d
I face difficult situation during previous project to deploy changes on AIX machine when unlucky we don’t have VPN access to our CVS. I learn something and let me show you the harder way to manage you source code.
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