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(it turned out to probably be an incompatibility with uswsusp.conf/hybernation and the referenced LVM swap by it, and that I am on a desktop not notebook) (should I keep this question to help others in some way? the answer is in the comments too and from https://askubuntu.com/a/411589/46437)

lvmetad is not active yet; using direct activation during sysinit

kernel 4.4.0-83-generic 64bits
Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS

when upgrading from 14.04 to 16.04, huge boot time > 5min, how to config lvmetad to skip directly to what matters?

all related questions have no answers that would work here, so I thought on trying to asking differently.

so, what I can configure at lvmetad to let it skip/ignore/jump directly to what matters instead of wating 5minutes for a simple boot? it seems to be some timeout thing, I read it could be a bug (if so we have no choice then)

some more info here:

so, the systemd-analyze leaves us clueless (well, the network manager 21s is extremely bad, but much less bad than the 5min)

systemd-analyze blame
     21.520s NetworkManager-wait-online.service
      4.723s lvm2-activation-early.service
      3.063s systemd-udev-settle.service
      1.712s dev-mapper-LvmGroupRoot\x2droot.device
      1.556s hddtemp.service
...

its plot option is not better, if you try to visualize yours, make it sure to use gwenview (quite fast) (not imagemagick display, huge memory usage)

so, looking at dmesg I found this, making it clear it is a lvm problem.

[Sáb Jul  1 20:27:41 2017] floppy0: no floppy controllers found
[Sáb Jul  1 20:33:01 2017] EXT4-fs (dm-2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[Sáb Jul  1 20:33:01 2017] systemd[1]: systemd 229 running in system mode.

so I want to focus on tweaking lvmetad, any tips?

I had a hint that using an older kernel version would "solve" this problem , but of couse would not contain the newer kernel advantages..

I wont mess my gfx using nomodeset.

the lvm.conf use_lvmetad=0 makes no difference here.

I am still researching, will update as soon I have more info. It seems to require some expert about lvmetad :)

Aquarius Power
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    I believe that the lvmetad message is normal. What's wrong is your 5 minute boot times. Exactly what do you see on your screen when it seems to be taking so long? Edit your question to include the terminal output of sudo blkid and cat /etc/fstab. Ping me in a comment starting with @heynnema and I'll take a look. – heynnema Jul 02 '17 at 14:26
  • @heynnema you are right, nothing to do with lvmetad, I had /etc/uswsusp.conf with resume device = /dev/disk/by-uuid/76c1fa3... that points to a LVM swap (I commented that line), and I am on a desktop machine (I was trying to resume at 14.04 but did not work). All other things related to blkid, fstab, mount where matching, there was no missing UUID. – Aquarius Power Jul 02 '17 at 16:32
  • I dont know if this question could be useful to others, I think it should be changed to really be about long boot time only, and the answer is about the problematic swap being tried to be used to resume on a desktop. any tips? – Aquarius Power Jul 02 '17 at 16:35
  • I don't recognize /etc/uswsusp,conf. What is that? You should check /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume. So, are your boot times OK now? – heynnema Jul 02 '17 at 17:24
  • @heynnema wow, the RESUME is there too at initramfs! but.. after I changed the uswsusp.conf file my boot time is working great now, show I change that initramfs resume file too in some way? just to prevent some future surprise? – Aquarius Power Jul 02 '17 at 17:31
  • Yes, change it there also. Then do a sudo update-initramfs -u. You never said where uswsusp.conf came from and what it does. – heynnema Jul 02 '17 at 17:41
  • @heynnema uswsusp is for hybernation. the update initramfs didnt change its resume file! I wonder if I can delete (bkp 1st) it, but I will try a boot see if it is still all ok (havent deleted it yet, may not either). – Aquarius Power Jul 02 '17 at 18:03
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    No, you edit the resume and update it with the proper UUID of the swap partition (taken from sudo blkid if you need to), then you do the update-initramfs -u – heynnema Jul 02 '17 at 18:05

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