Gave up waiting for suspend/resume device

My boot process was pretty slow on a new setup I had. It would stop for about 30 seconds and then give the following error:

Gave up waiting for suspend/resume device

It turns out I had a resume device listed in /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume even though my swap was both encrypted with random keys and too small. Editing that file, setting RESUME=none, and running sudo update-initramfs -u fixed the issue.

2 thoughts on “Gave up waiting for suspend/resume device”

  1. Exact same issue for me after re-creating swap on a debian box encrypted. Solved it first time.

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