[systemd-devel] Question: systemd-binfmt.service delayed almost 90s start

[Lennart Poettering]

On So, 11.05.25 15:07, Alien Kong (kqleno at gmail.com) wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm currently investigating a long boot delay on our embedded Linux system
> (systemd 255.4-1ubuntu8.4, custom embedded board) as a sporadic issue.
> We noticed that `systemd-binfmt.service` takes almost 90 seconds to
> start.

You cannot really use the status output to determine that. Please look
at the proper logs, i.e. journalctl output, and please ideally even
turn on debug output, so you see in detail what is going
on. (i.e. systemd.log_level=debug) on the kernel cmdline.

Lennart

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