FreeNAS - slow boot - need interpretation of console output

[LumH]

Hi there...

We're using FreeNAS 11.1-U7 as a VM on ESXi 6.7.
I would like help in interpreting the console boot messages.
It seems that at one point, the boot process is busy processing for about 1 minute... but I cannot find anything in /var/logs matching strings to determine what it is doing.

Here's the snippet of console output:

Code:

<normal boot messages - no issues here>
* [I|O|C] starting jails...
IOCAGE_SKIP is TRUE or an RC operation, no activating a pool.
Please manually issue iocage activate POOL
Starting consul_alerts.
Starting consul.
Starting collectd.
plugin_load: plugin "aggregation" successfully loaded.
plugin_load: plugin "cpu" successfully loaded.
plugin_load: plugin "cputemp" successfully loaded.
... <more plugin_load messages>
plugin_load: pluging "uptime" sucessfully loaded.
< ... It thinks here for 1 minute ... What's it doing? >
Call timeout
Flushed all rules.
<... and the properly finishes to the console setup selection>

So I'm trying to figure out what it's doing during the 1 minute (in bold) between the "update" plugin_load and "Call timeout"
I can't seem to find any strings that match the plugin-load (e.g. "aggregation", "cputemp", "uptime") in /var/logs.
In /var/logs/messges, I'm able to find matches up to iocage messages, but that was it.

Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

 

[dlavigne]

Anything showing up in /var/log/dmesg.log or in /var/log/messages around the time of the bootup?