Kernel, gdm-password, pulseaudio, systemd, sudo errors

Hi, I check the error with

sudo journalctl -b -p err

and I found those errors

-- Journal begins at Fri 2021-06-25 23:20:58 +0630, ends at Tue 2021-06-29 21:38:18 +0630. --
Jun 29 21:29:34 msaixitu kernel: ata3.00: failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x100)
Jun 29 21:29:34 msaixitu kernel: ata3.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5)
Jun 29 21:29:34 msaixitu kernel: 
Jun 29 21:29:36 msaixitu kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: unexpected event for opcode 0xfc2f
Jun 29 21:29:47 msaixitu gdm-password][1210]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
Jun 29 21:29:50 msaixitu pulseaudio[1325]: Doing resync
Jun 29 21:29:50 msaixitu pulseaudio[1325]: Playback too far ahead (74550), drop source 19080
Jun 29 21:29:51 msaixitu systemd[1220]: Failed to start Application launched by gnome-session-binary.
Jun 29 21:29:51 msaixitu systemd[1220]: Failed to start Application launched by gnome-session-binary.
Jun 29 21:37:08 msaixitu sudo[2767]:     msai : a password is required ; TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/msai ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/file -s /dev/sda1

How can i solve those errors?

hear is output of inxi output

System:
  Kernel: 5.13.0-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.13-x86_64 
  root=UUID=04b98feb-830b-4c6f-b774-58e5ba4f228d rw quiet splash apparmor=1 
  security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3 
  Desktop: GNOME 3.38.4 tk: GTK 3.24.29 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM 40.0 
  Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Micro-Star product: GL62 6QE v: REV:1.0 
  serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Micro-Star model: MS-16J5 v: REV:0.A serial: <filter> 
  UEFI: American Megatrends v: E16J5IMS.11D date: 01/19/2018 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 4.1 Wh (12.3%) condition: 33.3/43.2 Wh (77.1%) 
  volts: 10.1 min: 10.8 model: MSI BIF0_9 type: Li-ion serial: N/A 
  status: Discharging 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 7.66 GiB used: 4.4 GiB (57.5%) 
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-6700HQ bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Skylake-S family: 6 model-id: 5E (94) stepping: 3 microcode: E2 cache: 
  L2: 6 MiB bogomips: 41621 
  Speed: 1801 MHz min/max: 800/3500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1801 2: 1801 
  3: 1800 4: 1800 5: 1800 6: 1800 7: 1800 8: 1801 
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon art 
  avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid 
  cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept ept_ad erms est 
  f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr hle ht hwp hwp_act_window 
  hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs ida intel_pt invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm 
  mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe mpx msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat 
  pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts 
  rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good rtm sdbg sep smap smep ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 
  sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust 
  tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt 
  xsaves xtopology xtpr 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
  Type: l1tf 
  mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable 
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, 
  IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode 
  Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 530 vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: i915 
  v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:191b class-ID: 0300 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GM107M [GeForce GTX 950M] vendor: Micro-Star MSI 
  driver: nvidia v: 465.31 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 01:00.0 
  chip-ID: 10de:139a class-ID: 0302 
  Device-3: Chicony USB 2.0 Webcam Device type: USB driver: uvcvideo 
  bus-ID: 1-11:3 chip-ID: 04f2:b521 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter> 
  Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.11 compositor: gnome-shell driver: 
  loaded: modesetting,nvidia alternate: fbdev,intel,nouveau,nv,vesa 
  resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo> 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 530 (SKL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.1.2 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 100 Series/C230 Series Family HD Audio 
  vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 
  chip-ID: 8086:a170 class-ID: 0403 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.13.0-1-MANJARO running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no 
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.30 running: no 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wireless 3165 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: e000 
  bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:3165 class-ID: 0280 
  IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  broadcast: <filter> 
  IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link 
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA8171 Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Micro-Star MSI 
  driver: alx v: kernel port: d000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1969:10a1 
  class-ID: 0200 
  IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  WAN IP: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 
  bus-ID: 1-10:2 chip-ID: 8087:0a2a class-ID: e001 
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: see --recommends 
Logical:
  Permissions: Unable to run lvs. Root privileges required. 
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found. 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.14 TiB used: 22.71 GiB (1.9%) 
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 model: SSD 256GB size: 238.47 GiB 
  block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 
  rotation: SSD serial: <filter> rev: S0318A0G scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD10JPVX-22JC3T0 
  size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> rev: 1A01 scheme: GPT 
  Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: HL-DT-ST model: DVDRAM GUD0N rev: 1.00 
  dev-links: cdrom 
  Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes 
  rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 238.17 GiB size: 233.38 GiB (97.99%) 
  used: 22.71 GiB (9.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 
  label: N/A uuid: 04b98feb-830b-4c6f-b774-58e5ba4f228d 
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%) 
  used: 288 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 
  label: NO_LABEL uuid: 82EC-5D39 
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found. 
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 931.51 GiB fs: <superuser required> 
  label: WinDisk uuid: 54D2DCCED2DCB608 
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 16 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 1-10:2 info: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: Bluetooth 
  driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA 
  chip-ID: 8087:0a2a class-ID: e001 
  Device-2: 1-11:3 info: Chicony USB 2.0 Webcam Device type: Video 
  driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA 
  chip-ID: 04f2:b521 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter> 
  Device-3: 1-12:4 info: Realtek RTS5129 Card Reader Controller 
  type: <vendor specific> driver: rtsx_usb,rtsx_usb_ms,rtsx_usb_sdmmc 
  interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 0bda:0129 
  class-ID: ff00 serial: <filter> 
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 8 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 55.0 C mobo: 27.8 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 303 Uptime: 1h 30m wakeups: 1 Init: systemd v: 248 
  tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 clang: 12.0.0 Packages: pacman: 1296 
  lib: 330 flatpak: 0 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 running-in: gnome-terminal 
  inxi: 3.3.04

Welcome to the forum!

What’s the description of your problem?

Take a look at the link below:

Unless you’re facing issues with the proper functioning of your system, probably you may disregard those errors on your journal.

In my case, I do have a similar output for journalctl -b 0 -p err and I’m not experiencing issues at the moment.

~ >>> sudo journalctl -b 0 -p err                                                                                                                                                                                   
... 
Jun 29 08:40:37 manjaro-unstable kernel: nouveau 0000:02:00.0: bus: MMIO read of 00000000 FAULT at 022554 [ PRIVRING ]
Jun 29 08:40:37 manjaro-unstable kernel: usb 1-4: Failed to query (GET_INFO) UVC control 3 on unit 1: -32 (exp. 1).
Jun 29 08:40:39 manjaro-unstable kernel: nouveau 0000:02:00.0: bus: MMIO read of 00000000 FAULT at 619444 [ PRIVRING ]
Jun 29 08:40:41 manjaro-unstable kernel: i2c_hid_acpi i2c-ELAN1010:00: i2c_hid_get_input: incomplete report (14/53588)
Jun 29 08:40:49 manjaro-unstable gdm-password][1014]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
Jun 29 08:40:51 manjaro-unstable kernel: nouveau 0000:02:00.0: bus: MMIO read of 00000000 FAULT at 619444 [ PRIVRING ]
Jun 29 08:40:54 manjaro-unstable systemd[1187]: Failed to start Application launched by gnome-session-binary.
Jun 29 08:43:10 manjaro-unstable sudo[1990]: pam_unix(sudo:auth): conversation failed
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The errors seem harmless, does a search for the specific error lead to a solution?
I’ve looked up gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file in the past and it’s harmless.
Not all errors are bad btw, just a notification that something did not run as expected, probably solved in the next try of the specific process or not that important anyway, for example from your error log the errors point to a disk and BT device, does your disk and BT work as expected? if Yes, then great :slight_smile:

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This topic is pretty much done.