Initramfs: "triggering uevents" suddenly takes a really long time

Early in boot, after triggering uevents but before the encrypt hook (decrypting drives) my system takes a very long time, over a minute. Actually, I bet it takes 90 seconds which is the typical default for how long systemd will wait on something before timing out.

I get no error message, just a delay. After the encrypt hook everything runs normally.

I think this must be the initramfs because my actual drive is not unlocked at that point. In /etc/mkinitcpio.conf I have:

HOOKS=(base udev keyboard autodetect modconf block encrypt lvm2 filesystems resume fsck)

This used to not be a problem, but began 1 months ago or so after an update. I am on Arch with 6.6.32-1-lts kernel.

What's the problem? How do I troubleshoot it?

Additional troubleshooting information will be added below.

$ systemd-analyze time
Startup finished in 2min 23.672s (kernel) + 17.010s (userspace) = 2min 40.683s
graphical.target reached after 17.010s in userspace.

But in systemd-analyze blame output the top one is just 8sec for the network, so it does not appear to look at the kernel.

posted 5 months ago

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matthewsnyder‭

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