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Jag59

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Registered: 2025-10-14

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[Solved] Delayed boot,waiting for WiFi.

If WiFi is off, q4os boot waits for 1 min 39 sec to start "Job nmbd.service" .
How to avoid this delay and boot q4os without WiFi 'On'?
The exact text is

'[***] Job nmbd.service/start running (1 min 14 s / 1min 39s): nmbd: No localIpv4 non-loopback interface available, waiting for interface ...'

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Last edited by Jag59 (2025-10-15 00:52)

q4osteam

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Registered: 2015-12-06

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Re: [Solved] Delayed boot,waiting for WiFi.

Welcome to the forum Your account has been promoted, so you can attach files now.

Nmbd is the service for Samba share, a kind of network file sharing. It waits for a possible network connection. If you are not using it, feel free to disable it or uninstall it:
$ sudo systemctl disable nmbd.service
or remove Samba completely:
$ sudo apt remove samba

q4osteam

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Re: [Solved] Delayed boot,waiting for WiFi.

You can also change the "TimeoutStartSec" value for a systemd service following this https://unix.stackexchange.com/question … eout-value

Jag59

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Registered: 2025-10-14

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Re: [Solved] Delayed boot,waiting for WiFi.

Welcome to the forum Your account has been promoted, so you can attach files now.

Nmbd is the service for Samba share, a kind of network file sharing. It waits for a possible network connection. If you are not using it, feel free to disable it or uninstall it:
$ sudo systemctl disable nmbd.service
or remove Samba completely:
$ sudo apt remove samba

"$ sudo apt remove samba" did the job and this much is sufficient for me. I am not a advanced user and can't hope much at the age of 68 though using Linux since @18 years and doing whatever little is possible for me in encouraging, helping others to use it. 

Thanks for the worm welcome and promoting the account.