System temporarily hangs during boot

[fryguy1]

Hello. I have a PiBoy DMG running retropie; I am using the company's official image v1.05. A while ago, I started encountering some slow start times for my system - something seems to cause the system to hang for ~90 seconds during startup.

I suspect it's some process getting stuck or encountering an error in the background, possibly related to online connectivity, but I have no idea how to begin to identify it, let alone fix it.

I wondered if someone here with more knowledge and experience might be able to please take a look at my syslog and let me know if they might be able to tell what is causing the problem? https://pastebin.com/B4m22X7N

Thanks so much in advance! Happy to answer any other questions to the best of my ability. Really appreciate any help or leads you may be able to provide.

[mitu]

We don't support 3rd party images and yours looks like it was customized and changed from the default RetroPie image.
I see you have a number of services (like snapd or bt-device) which are not standard on RaspiOS and I see also an error related to CPU throttling - maybe the system boot is slow because the CPU's frequency is scaled down.
You can use systemd-analyze how long it takes each system service to start, it may help identify which one is responsible for the slowdown.