[SOLVED] Slow boot after logging in, and so on

[Mornagest]

Hi,

I use Linux Mint on my office computer and in order to have a secured and up-to-date OS, I upgraded from 18.3 to 19 (Tara) this morning. Since then, I experience a slow boot after I log in : it takes about thirty seconds to display my desktop, before the upgrade it took less than ten.

The same slowdown is present when I perform some basic tasks, such as typing some commands in my terminal. For example, when I ask my term to make a "sudo apt update", I must wait about twenty seconds just to be able to type my password. Or when I want to shut down the computer, it takes about thirty seconds to display the shut down options (reboot, disconnect, and so on).

I must clarify that I haven't met those troubles before.

As I read on the forum, I ran some commands and here are the results :

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inxi -Fxz
System:    Host: lyp0307 Kernel: 4.15.0-32-generic x86_64 bits: 64 gcc: 7.3.0
           Desktop: Cinnamon 3.8.8 (Gtk 3.22.30-1ubuntu1) Distro: Linux Mint 19 Tara
Machine:   Device: desktop System: Dell product: Precision T1700 v: 01 serial: N/A
           Mobo: Dell model: 073MMW v: A03 serial: N/A BIOS: Dell v: A08 date: 04/25/2014
CPU:       Quad core Intel Core i5-4570 (-MCP-) arch: Haswell rev.3 cache: 6144 KB
           flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 25540
           clock speeds: max: 3600 MHz 1: 1159 MHz 2: 984 MHz 3: 1055 MHz 4: 1069 MHz
Graphics:  Card-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0
           Card-2: NVIDIA GF119 [NVS 310] bus-ID: 01:00.0
           Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 ) drivers: modesetting,nvidia (unloaded: fbdev,vesa,nouveau)
           Resolution: 1280x1024@60.02hz
           OpenGL: renderer: NVS 310/PCIe/SSE2 version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.48 Direct Render: Yes
Audio:     Card-1 Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
           Card-2 Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:03.0
           Card-3 NVIDIA GF119 HDMI Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 01:00.1
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.15.0-32-generic
Network:   Card: Intel Ethernet Connection I217-LM driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k port: f080 bus-ID: 00:19.0
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 500.1GB (34.1% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: ST500DM002 size: 500.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 74G used: 20G (28%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
           ID-2: /home size: 378G used: 133G (38%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 8.00GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 31.0C mobo: 27.8C gpu: 0.0:40C
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 216 Uptime: 5 min Memory: 1148.3/7885.6MB Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 7.3.0
           Client: Shell (bash 4.4.191) inxi: 2.3.56 

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systemd-analyze blame
          8.273s NetworkManager-wait-online.service
          7.886s dev-sda1.device
          7.236s lvm2-monitor.service
          6.317s keyboard-setup.service
          6.160s user@1620.service
          6.062s systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
          5.508s systemd-sysctl.service
          4.629s sssd.service
          4.207s gpu-manager.service
          2.726s udisks2.service
          2.603s NetworkManager.service
          2.549s ubuntu-system-adjustments.service
          2.501s systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-d41c2393\x2d1a5a\x2d433e\x2db61a\x2dd1423c54f476.service
          2.095s ModemManager.service
          1.410s grub-common.service
          1.313s virtualbox-guest-utils.service
          1.148s loadcpufreq.service
           925ms speech-dispatcher.service
           854ms systemd-resolved.service
           748ms systemd-modules-load.service
           729ms avahi-daemon.service
           725ms systemd-journal-flush.service
           648ms wpa_supplicant.service
           619ms console-kit-log-system-start.service
           592ms alsa-restore.service
           585ms pppd-dns.service
           582ms rsyslog.service
           567ms systemd-udev-trigger.service
           560ms lm-sensors.service
           478ms smbd.service
           399ms colord.service
           395ms systemd-random-seed.service
           383ms resolvconf-pull-resolved.service
           380ms systemd-journald.service
           372ms blk-availability.service
           299ms home.mount
           270ms kmod-static-nodes.service
           254ms networking.service
           245ms ssh.service
           234ms systemd-timesyncd.service
           224ms lightdm.service
           223ms plymouth-quit-wait.service
           218ms accounts-daemon.service
           200ms systemd-logind.service
           189ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
           175ms dev-disk-by\x2duuid-cd119948\x2d845a\x2d476e\x2d82c6\x2d5727aa06bc95.swap
           169ms dev-mqueue.mount
           169ms ufw.service
           166ms systemd-remount-fs.service
           129ms plymouth-read-write.service
           124ms systemd-udevd.service
           108ms polkit.service
           104ms upower.service
            90ms ntp.service
            79ms plymouth-start.service
            78ms binfmt-support.service
            75ms systemd-update-utmp.service
            69ms setvtrgb.service
            58ms nmbd.service
            33ms rtkit-daemon.service
            10ms ureadahead-stop.service
             9ms nvidia-persistenced.service
             8ms fusioninventory-agent.service
             7ms cpufrequtils.service
             7ms hddtemp.service
             3ms dns-clean.service
             3ms sys-kernel-debug.mount
             3ms systemd-update-utmp-runlevel.service
             3ms proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.mount
             2ms console-setup.service
             2ms dev-hugepages.mount
             2ms systemd-user-sessions.service
             1ms resolvconf.service
             1ms sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount
             1ms sys-kernel-config.mount
             1ms openvpn.service

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systemd-analyze
Startup finished in 6.063s (kernel) + 27.433s (userspace) = 33.497s
graphical.target reached after 27.429s in userspace

Any idea ?

Thank you very much in advance !

[karlchen]

Hello, Mornagest.

I upgraded from 18.3 to 19 (Tara) this morning.

Please, explain how precisely you executed the upgrade from Mint 18.3 to Mint 19.

• Did you boot your machine from the Mint 19 live system and did a clean installation of Mint 19, overwriting the previous OS?
• Did you do an in-place upgrade from Mint 18.3 to Mint 19 and followed Clem's tutorial here: How to upgrade to Linux Mint 19
• Did you do it in yet another way?

One thing which I noticed in your inxi report. Your system loads both, the Intel graphics driver modesetting and the proprietary Nvidia driver nvidia-390. Did your system do the same, when it still ran on Mint 18.3? I mean load both drivers, modesetting and nvidia?

Regards,
Karl

[Mornagest]

Hello Karichen,

I executed the command mintupgrade upgrade. I follow the requirements (Timeshift and so on) and it began downloading new packages then it ran normally (unpacking, configuring..). I had to run apt install -f then mintupgrade upgrade a second time since some packages did not configure by themselves.

At this time I lost my display and got a black screen. I waited a long time to be sure the process was finished, rebooted and everything seemed to be OK, except those slowdowns.

Thank you for your answer !

edit : I just tried with nVidia drivers a few minutes ago to be sure the slowdowns wouldn't come from the Nouveau drivers but it changed nothing.

[Flemur]

You very probably don't need this one unless you connect to the internet in a strange way:

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          8.273s NetworkManager-wait-online.service

sudo systemctl disable NetworkManager-wait-online.service

You also have the "everything takes far longer - 10 to 20X longer - to start than it should w/Cinnamon" syndrome. I have no idea what causes it or how to fix it.

For example:
Yours: 6.317s keyboard-setup.service
My 8 year old machine: 165ms keyboard-setup.service

[karlchen]

I still suspect that the long duration for the userpsace startup might be related to the 2 graphics drivers in use, modeseting for Intel and nvidia-390 for NVidia.
I suggest checking the 2 logfiles
/var/log/syslog
/var/log/Xorg.0.log
and checking for errors and delays. Delays can be found by paying attention to the timestamps of the logged events.

[Mornagest]

OK, thank you for your answers

I'll try this next week, as I came back home until Monday.

To be continued...

[Mornagest]

Hi,

I removed the nVidia drivers as they were not a solution to my problem. No change regarding the boot delay after login.

About this :

NetworkManager-wait-online.service

Can I be sure I don't need this particular service ? As it is for my computer at work, I'm not completely sure how it is connected to the network.

The logs asked are too big, I join them with my post ; sorry

[Mornagest]

In addition, to be sure it wouldn't come from Cinnamon, I freshly intalled Xfce (no previous config directory) and it also takes about thirty seconds to display the desktop after loging in.

I'm quite lost...

[Mornagest]

Another small test : when I do

nano test

in a terminal, nano opens rather immediatly. If I do

sudo nano test

it takes maybe ten seconds to ask my password. Then it opens after some seconds. If I already entered my password for this terminal session, it still takes several seconds to open.

Surprising...

[Mornagest]

Does anyone have an idea ?

Thanks

[Mornagest]

OK, I had to ask our computer specialists at work to re-install Linux Mint as they didn't experiment this bug on their machines, although they migrated from LM 17 to LM 18 then 19.

Now that works fine for me

[arrism]

First post here. I had this 30 seconds delay after login (black screen, only showing mouse pointer which i could move). I disabled Cinnamon Settings Daemon - xrandr from startup applications (which i am not sure it was there before editing monitors.xml and messing with nvidia settings, trying to enable 75 hz for my new monitor) and it is fixed. No more delay.