I think it started happening after the prvious big upodate – might’ve been one before that – but I’ve been having these weird stops at the beginning of start-up at:
:: mounting
'UUID=564935af-3006-485e-9671-c9597f5e97b2' on real root
:: running late hook [plymouth]
:: running cleanup hook [udev]
And it just stays there until I press a key, after which it continues normally. This does not happen on every start. Maybe every 10th or so, but can be two in a row or might not happen in a longer while.
While not a big issue, it’s really annoying to power up the system, leave for a while, and then come back to find it stalled there. Plus I like to learn new things, so I’m interested in knowing what it could be.
inxi
System:
Kernel: 6.6.119-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.2.1
clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.6-x86_64
root=UUID=564935af-3006-485e-9671-c9597f5e97b2 rw udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.5.4 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.21.0
wm: kwin_wayland vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: ASUS product: All Series v: N/A
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: Z87-A v: Rev 1.xx serial: <superuser required>
part-nu: All uuid: <superuser required> Firmware: UEFI
vendor: American Megatrends v: 2103 date: 08/15/2014
Battery:
Message: No system battery data found. Is one present?
Memory:
System RAM: total: 16 GiB available: 15.56 GiB used: 4.72 GiB (30.3%)
Message: For most reliable report, use superuser + dmidecode.
Array-1: capacity: 32 GiB slots: 4 modules: 2 EC: None
max-module-size: 8 GiB note: est.
Device-1: ChannelA-DIMM0 type: DDR3 detail: synchronous size: 8 GiB
speed: 1600 MT/s volts: N/A width (bits): data: 64 total: 64
manufacturer: Kingston part-no: KHX1600C10D3/8GX serial: <filter>
Device-2: ChannelA-DIMM1 type: no module installed
Device-3: ChannelB-DIMM0 type: DDR3 detail: synchronous size: 8 GiB
speed: 1600 MT/s volts: N/A width (bits): data: 64 total: 64
manufacturer: Kingston part-no: KHX1600C10D3/8GX serial: <filter>
Device-4: ChannelB-DIMM1 type: no module installed
PCI Slots:
Permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i7-4770K bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Haswell
gen: core 4 level: v3 note: check built: 2013-15 process: Intel 22nm
family: 6 model-id: 0x3C (60) stepping: 3 microcode: 0x28
Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 4 cores: 4 threads: 8 tpc: 2
smt: enabled cache: L1: 256 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB
desc: 4x256 KiB L3: 8 MiB desc: 1x8 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/3900 scaling: driver: intel_cpufreq
governor: schedutil cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800
8: 800 bogomips: 56021
Flags: abm acpi aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2
bts clflush cmov constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64
dtherm dts epb erms est f16c flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht ibpb
ibpb_exit_to_user ibrs ida invpcid lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx
monitor movbe msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq
pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts rdrand rdtscp
rep_good sdbg sep smep ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall
tm tm2 tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer vme xsave xsaveopt xtopology
xtpr
Vulnerabilities:
Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: indirect_target_selection status: Not affected
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Unknown: No mitigations
Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: retbleed status: Not affected
Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines; IBPB: conditional; IBRS_FW;
STIBP: conditional; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not
affected
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsa status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Type: vmscape mitigation: IBPB before exit to userspace
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070 Ti] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia
v: 575.64.05 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 550-580.xx+
status: current (as of 2025-11; EOL~2026-12-xx) arch: Pascal code: GP10x
process: TSMC 16nm built: 2016-2021 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
ports: active: none off: HDMI-A-2 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DVI-D-1, HDMI-A-1
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1b82 class-ID: 0300
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.21 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.9
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: nvidia
gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: HDMI-A-2 model: Samsung T24D390 built: 2013 res:
mode: 1920x1080 hz: 60 scale: 100% (1) dpi: 94 gamma: 1.2 chroma: red:
x: 0.647 y: 0.337 green: x: 0.329 y: 0.616 blue: x: 0.145 y: 0.055 white:
x: 0.314 y: 0.329 size: 521x293mm (20.51x11.54") diag: 598mm (23.5")
ratio: 16:9 modes: 1920x1080, 1680x1050, 1600x900, 1280x1024, 1440x900,
1366x768, 1280x800, 1152x864, 1280x720, 1024x768, 800x600, 720x576,
720x480, 640x480
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 2
drv: swrast gbm: drv: nvidia surfaceless: drv: nvidia wayland: drv: nvidia
x11: drv: nvidia inactive: device-1
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 575.64.05
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
memory: 7.81 GiB display-ID: :1.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.335 layers: 9 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu name: NVIDIA
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti driver: nvidia v: 575.64.05 device-ID: 10de:1b82
surfaces: N/A
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi
wl: wayland-info x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:8c20
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA GP104 High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f0 class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.6.119-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.4.9 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: ASUSTeK AM1I-A driver: r8168 v: 8.055.00-NAPI modules: r8169 pcie:
gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: d000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: TP-Link Archer T9UH v1 [Realtek RTL8814AU] driver: rtl8814au
type: USB rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 bus-ID: 4-5:2
chip-ID: 2357:0106 class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter>
IF: wlp0s20u5 state: up mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
Info: services: NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Message: No bluetooth data found.
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 2.96 TiB used: 338.66 GiB (11.2%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 840 EVO 250GB
size: 232.89 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: BB6Q scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Toshiba model: DT01ACA300
size: 2.73 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
tech: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> fw-rev: ABB0 scheme: GPT
Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: ASUS model: DRW-24F1ST a rev: 1.00
dev-links: cdrom
Features: speed: 48 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes
rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 78.12 GiB size: 76.35 GiB (97.73%) used: 60.82 GiB (79.7%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 label: root
uuid: 564935af-3006-485e-9671-c9597f5e97b2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 350 MiB size: 346 MiB (98.86%)
used: 26 MiB (7.5%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: EFI
uuid: 325F-EABE
ID-3: /home raw-size: 511 GiB size: 511 GiB (100.00%)
used: 276.93 GiB (54.2%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sdb5 maj-min: 8:21 label: Homes
uuid: dc0acd57-2d63-4d6a-a2e0-fa51a0baab29
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: yes
compressor: zstd max-pool: 20%
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 2 GiB used: 907.1 MiB (44.3%)
priority: -2 dev: /dev/sdb3 maj-min: 8:19 label: Swap
uuid: ef6350b4-822e-4d24-98b7-0506817ede40
Unmounted:
ID-1: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 size: 232.03 GiB fs: ntfs label: Windows
uuid: 742CB3ED2CB3A88E
ID-2: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 size: 521 MiB fs: ntfs label: N/A
uuid: 62F6646CF6644301
ID-3: /dev/sdb2 maj-min: 8:18 size: 2.15 TiB fs: ntfs label: Windata
uuid: E0ECB5F6ECB5C6D6
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
class-ID: 0900
Hub-2: 1-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 8 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 8087:8000
class-ID: 0900
Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
class-ID: 0900
Hub-4: 2-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 8087:8008
class-ID: 0900
Hub-5: 3-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 14 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 3-13:2 info: Logitech G402 Gaming Mouse type: mouse,HID
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s)
lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 power: 300mA chip-ID: 046d:c07e class-ID: 0300
serial: <filter>
Device-2: 3-14:3 info: Microdia USB DEVICE type: keyboard,mouse
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s)
lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 power: 100mA chip-ID: 0c45:672e class-ID: 0301
Hub-6: 4-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 6 rev: 3.0
speed: 5 Gb/s (596.0 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 4-5:2 info: TP-Link Archer T9UH v1 [Realtek RTL8814AU]
type: Network driver: rtl8814au interfaces: 1 rev: 3.0
speed: 5 Gb/s (596.0 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 power: 864mA
chip-ID: 2357:0106 class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter>
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 42.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Repos:
Packages: 1536 pm: pacman pkgs: 1517 libs: 418 tools: pamac pm: flatpak
pkgs: 19
Active pacman repo servers in: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
1: https://mirror.init7.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
2: https://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/linux/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
3: https://mirror.truenetwork.ru/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
4: https://mirrors.eric.ovh/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
5: https://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
6: https://mirrors.atlas.net.co/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
7: https://mirror.dimensiondata.com/mirrors/manjaro.org/stable/$repo/$arch
8: https://mirror.nju.edu.cn/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
Processes:
CPU top: 5 of 334
1: cpu: 10.0% command: vivaldi-bin pid: 6198 mem: 286.4 MiB (1.7%)
2: cpu: 6.3% command: vivaldi-bin pid: 6246 mem: 441.8 MiB (2.7%)
3: cpu: 4.5% command: kwin_wayland pid: 858 mem: 273.1 MiB (1.7%)
4: cpu: 4.3% command: vivaldi-bin pid: 8806 mem: 260.6 MiB (1.6%)
5: cpu: 2.2% command: steamwebhelper pid: 2146 mem: 334.7 MiB (2.1%)
Memory top: 5 of 334
1: mem: 560.5 MiB (3.5%) command: vivaldi-bin pid: 6145 cpu: 0.7%
2: mem: 441.8 MiB (2.7%) command: vivaldi-bin pid: 6246 cpu: 6.3%
3: mem: 390.1 MiB (2.4%) command: plasmashell pid: 1025 cpu: 0.4%
4: mem: 349.1 MiB (2.1%) command: ./steamwebhelper pid: 1986 cpu: 0.6%
5: mem: 343.6 MiB (2.1%) command: vivaldi-bin pid: 8755 cpu: 1.0%
Info:
Processes: 334 Power: uptime: 6h 36m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
suspend, test_resume image: 6.15 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,
power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init: systemd v: 258 default: graphical
tool: systemctl
Compilers: clang: 21.1.6 gcc: 15.2.1 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 running-in: konsole
inxi: 3.3.40