Since an system update in mid February 2024, this laptop can no longer start up normally after an shutdown. (As it is a spare computer it may had not received any updates since December 17th when it got the February updates)
That is, when user logs in, all desktop icons are gone, desktop theme has changed, windows title bars are gone, hotkey (like alt-f4 to close windows) does not work, open windows are not shown in panel, in order to type anything in any window mouse pointer has to be inside that window… Basically lots of things has changed - and they did not change into new user defaults.
The way to solve this is to run
$ rm .config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfwm4.xml
before shutdown/restart.
Then at least desktop settings comes to manjaro defaults at the next boot. However, at the next shutdown, the same thing happens again. So a workaround is to but the command mentioned above in a logout script.
If the pc gets a hard shutdown - long press power button - it starts up fine without the need to delete the file mentioned. I was hoping this would be fixed with a later update, but so far that has not happened.
How can this be solved?
System:
Kernel: 6.6.19-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.2.1
clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-6.6-x86_64
root=UUID=c19de19e-0334-436b-abdb-5b1b7186b040 rw sysrq_always_enabled=1
apparmor=1 security=apparmor
resume=UUID=34df189e-17eb-4ffd-bd62-55f9055ef680 udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 wm: xfwm4 v: 4.18.0
with: xfce4-panel tools: light-locker vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0
Distro: Manjaro base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP EliteBook 8440p v: N/A
serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 172B v: KBC Version 30.35 serial: <filter>
part-nu: VQ664EA#ABN uuid: 9c5b917a-c5dc-11df-9cd0-c2011e0d6060
BIOS: Hewlett-Packard v: 68CCU Ver. F.60 date: 11/11/2015
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 28.1 Wh (96.9%) condition: 29.0/29.0 Wh (100.0%)
volts: 12.3 min: 10.8 model: Hewlett-Packard Primary type: Li-ion
serial: <filter> status: charging
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i7 M 620 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Westmere
gen: core 1 level: v2 built: 2010-11 process: Intel 32nm family: 6
model-id: 0x25 (37) stepping: 5 microcode: 0x7
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 tpc: 2 threads: 4 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 128 KiB desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 512 KiB desc: 2x256 KiB
L3: 4 MiB desc: 1x4 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1199 min/max: 1199/2667 boost: enabled
base/boost: 2666/2666 scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil
volts: 1.2 V ext-clock: 133 MHz cores: 1: 1199 2: 1199 3: 1199 4: 1199
bogomips: 21291
Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
Vulnerabilities:
Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion
Type: mds status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode;
SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Unknown: No mitigations
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
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GT218M [NVS 3100M] vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: nouveau
v: kernel non-free: series: 340.xx status: legacy (EOL~2019-12-xx) last:
release: 340.108 kernel: 5.4 xorg: 1.20 arch: Tesla process: 40-80nm
built: 2006-2013 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports:
active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,DP-2,VGA-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0a6c
class-ID: 0300 temp: 51.0 C
Device-2: Chicony HP Webcam [2 MP Macro] driver: uvcvideo type: USB
rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-1.5:4
chip-ID: 04f2:b15e class-ID: 0e02
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.18.0 driver:
X: loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa gpu: nouveau display-ID: :0.0
screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1600x900 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 423x238mm (16.65x9.37")
s-diag: 485mm (19.11")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: AU Optronics 0x123e built: 2009 res: 1600x900
hz: 60 dpi: 132 gamma: 1.2 size: 309x174mm (12.17x6.85") diag: 355mm (14")
ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1600x900 min: 800x600
API: OpenGL Message: Unable to show GL data. glxinfo is missing.
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio
vendor: Hewlett-Packard 5 driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
chip-ID: 8086:3b56 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0be3 class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.6.19-1-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: 1.0.3 status: off tools: pw-cli
Server-3: PulseAudio v: 17.0 status: active (root, process) with:
1: pulseaudio-alsa type: plugin 2: pulseaudio-jack type: module
tools: pacat,pactl,pavucontrol
Network:
Device-1: Intel 82577LM Gigabit Network vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: e1000e v: kernel port: 6020 bus-ID: 00:19.0 chip-ID: 8086:10ea
class-ID: 0200
IF: enp0s25 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie:
gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 44:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:4238
class-ID: 0280
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
Info: services: NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
RAID:
Device-1: z type: zfs status: ONLINE level: linear raw: size: 193 GiB
free: 132 GiB allocated: 61.1 GiB zfs-fs: size: 192.26 GiB free: 125.93 GiB
Components: Online:
1:
Drives:
Local Storage: total: raw: 238.47 GiB usable: 430.73 GiB
used: 89.2 GiB (20.7%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Micron model: MTFDBAK256MAG-1G1
size: 238.47 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s
tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 0005 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 29.3 GiB size: 28.67 GiB (97.86%) used: 23.02 GiB (80.3%)
fs: ext4 block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3
ID-2: /boot raw-size: 200 MiB size: 185.9 MiB (92.97%)
used: 140.8 MiB (75.7%) fs: ext2 block-size: 1024 B dev: /dev/sda2
maj-min: 8:2
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: yes
compressor: zstd max-pool: 20%
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 15.62 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 52.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 6 GiB available: 5.65 GiB used: 2.07 GiB (36.6%)
Processes: 276 Power: uptime: 20m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
suspend, test_resume image: 2.25 GiB services: upowerd,xfce4-power-manager
Init: systemd v: 255 default: graphical tool: systemctl
Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1374 libs: 440 tools: pamac pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
Compilers: clang: 16.0.6 gcc: 13.2.1 Shell: Bash (su) v: 5.2.26
running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.33
