I am seeing this as well in a Hyper-V 2012R2 environment, but with more reasonable boot times.
$ systemd-analyze Startup finished in 14.479s (kernel) + 3.101s (userspace) = 17.580s $ cat /proc/version Linux version 4.4.0-36-generic (buildd@lcy01-01) (gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.2) ) #55-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 11 18:01:55 UTC 2016 $ systemctl status hv-fcopy-daemon.service --no-pager --full ● hv-fcopy-daemon.service - Hyper-V File Copy Protocol Daemon Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/hv-fcopy-daemon.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2016-08-30 15:51:41 PDT; 32min ago Process: 3105 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/hv_fcopy_daemon -n (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Main PID: 3105 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Aug 30 15:51:41 xenial01 systemd[1]: Started Hyper-V File Copy Protocol Daemon. Aug 30 15:51:41 xenial01 systemd[1]: hv-fcopy-daemon.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Aug 30 15:51:41 xenial01 systemd[1]: hv-fcopy-daemon.service: Unit entered failed state. Aug 30 15:51:41 xenial01 systemd[1]: hv-fcopy-daemon.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. $ sudo grep -E -i "hv.fcopy" /var/log/syslog Aug 30 15:51:41 xenial01 HV_FCOPY: starting; pid is:3105 Aug 30 15:51:41 xenial01 HV_FCOPY: open /dev/vmbus/hv_fcopy failed; error: 2 No such file or directory Aug 30 15:51:41 xenial01 systemd[1]: hv-fcopy-daemon.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Aug 30 15:51:41 xenial01 systemd[1]: hv-fcopy-daemon.service: Unit entered failed state. Aug 30 15:51:41 xenial01 systemd[1]: hv-fcopy-daemon.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1614618 Title: hv-fcopy-daemon.service system failed start To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1614618/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
