A start job is running for dev-disk-by.device

JosephS · 04-10-2017, 08:16 PM

I am getting a message when I boot up:

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A start job is running for dev-disk-byxxxxx.device

This runs for 1.5 minutes.

I looked through the Internet, but am still confused about what to do. I checked the UUID in /etc/fstab with ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid. The only difference was in the swap patition. I also installed another linux distribution in another partition and told it to use the same swap partition. Would this cause the problem? If so how would I fix this. If not what else needs to be done to fix this problem?

Joe

ondoho · 04-11-2017, 01:53 AM

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Originally Posted by JosephS

The only difference was in the swap patition. I also installed another linux distribution in another partition and told it to use the same swap partition. Would this cause the problem? If so how would I fix this.

make sure that the UUIDs in both fstabs match the partition's.
i.e., boot into both distros and edit fstab.

btw, are you still using wheezy & crunchbang? time to upgrade, imho.