(In reply to Thomas Blume from comment #45) > (In reply to Sebastian Kuhne from comment #44) > > use_lvmetad = 0 was already activated. > > > > I have executed "systemctl disable lvm2-lvmetad.socket", and the output of > > journalctl -axb attached (udev_log="debug"). > > > > Sorry for this issue. Many thanks for your help! > > > > Hm, still lvmetad was started: > > --<-- > Jan 19 09:05:04 linux-1r76 lvm[384]: WARNING: lvmetad is running but > disabled. Restart lvmetad before enabling it! > -->-- > > This shouldn't happen if lvm2-lvmetad.service and lvm2-lvmetad.socket are > disabled. > The only possibility, I can think of, is that it was started in the initrd. > Did you run mkinitrd after disabling lvm2-lvmetad.socket? > > > However, the boot times look ok now. > kdm gets started after 21s: > > -->-- > Jan 19 09:04:58 linux-1r76 kernel: Linux version 3.16.7-7-desktop > (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.8.3 20140627 [gcc-4_8-branch revision > 212064] (SUSE Linux) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Dec 17 18:00:44 UTC 2014 (762f27a) > [...] > Jan 19 09:05:19 linux-1r76 display-manager[652]: Starting service kdm..done > --<-- > > Can you confirm that this fixes your issue? Good morning, no I didn't run mkinitrd after disabling lvm2-lvmetad.socket. But, as you said, the boot time looks OK now. I can confirm that this fixes my issue. I'll keep lvm2-lvmetad.socket disabled. Thank you for your great support. Best regards, Sebastian