Manjaro hangs on boot

Honestly, I wasn’t really sure what to title this topic because I’m having so many issues at once.

Earlier today I did a reboot and it took much longer than it usually does. Once it finally got to the end of the splash screen, the screen hung for a few minutes while Steam booted up and displayed where it normally does. It took probably five minutes for the splash screen to go away and for my taskbar and desktop to show up. Even after that, I had to wait probably another five minutes before anything was even usable because absolutely nothing was reacting to my inputs. After all that was said and done I was getting an error saying “Filesystem mounted at ‘/’ is not responding” along with another one about my other drive. Everything from then on seemed to go pretty smoothly but it’s really concerning me and annoying to have to wait ages to be able to use my computer.

I ran journalctl -b -p err and here is the output:

Jun 03 20:30:45 Noelle-PC kernel: hid-generic 0003:0D8C:0005.0004: No inputs registered, leaving
Jun 04 02:26:14 Noelle-PC kernel: 
Jun 04 02:26:15 Noelle-PC kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: firmware Patch file not found, tried:
Jun 04 02:26:15 Noelle-PC kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: 'brcm/BCM20702B0-19ff-0239.hcd'
Jun 04 02:26:15 Noelle-PC kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: 'brcm/BCM-19ff-0239.hcd'
Jun 04 02:26:15 Noelle-PC kernel: usb 1-1.6: 3:1: cannot get freq at ep 0x84
Jun 04 02:26:21 Noelle-PC kernel: usb 1-1.6: 3:1: cannot get freq at ep 0x84
Jun 04 02:26:21 Noelle-PC kernel: usb 1-1.6: 3:1: cannot get freq at ep 0x84
Jun 04 02:56:44 Noelle-PC dolphin[2911]: inotify_add_watch(/var/log/private) failed: (Permission denied)
Jun 04 02:57:04 Noelle-PC dolphin[2911]: inotify_add_watch(/run/udisks2) failed: (Permission denied)
Jun 04 02:57:04 Noelle-PC dolphin[2911]: inotify_add_watch(/run/sudo) failed: (Permission denied)
Jun 04 02:57:05 Noelle-PC dolphin[2911]: inotify_add_watch(/run/systemd/propagate) failed: (Permission denied)
Jun 04 02:57:05 Noelle-PC dolphin[2911]: inotify_add_watch(/run/systemd/unit-root) failed: (Permission denied)
Jun 04 03:00:53 Noelle-PC dolphin[2911]: inotify_add_watch(/var/log/private) failed: (Permission denied)
Jun 04 03:03:27 Noelle-PC dolphin[2911]: inotify_add_watch(/var/log/private) failed: (Permission denied)
Jun 04 03:03:31 Noelle-PC dolphin[2911]: inotify_add_watch(/var/log/private) failed: (Permission denied)
Jun 04 03:03:31 Noelle-PC dolphin[2911]: inotify_add_watch(/var/log/private) failed: (Permission denied)
Jun 04 03:03:31 Noelle-PC dolphin[2911]: inotify_add_watch(/var/log/private) failed: (Permission denied)
Jun 04 03:03:35 Noelle-PC dolphin[2911]: inotify_add_watch(/var/tmp/systemd-private-723189545872410f81d0b1a60df04270-upower.service-9sBfr0) failed: (Permission denied)
Jun 04 03:03:35 Noelle-PC dolphin[2911]: inotify_add_watch(/var/tmp/systemd-private-723189545872410f81d0b1a60df04270-systemd-logind.service-hMdIkq) failed: (Permission denied)
Jun 04 03:03:35 Noelle-PC dolphin[2911]: inotify_add_watch(/var/tmp/systemd-private-723189545872410f81d0b1a60df04270-ModemManager.service-x6oltX) failed: (Permission denied)
Jun 04 03:03:35 Noelle-PC dolphin[2911]: inotify_add_watch(/var/tmp/systemd-private-723189545872410f81d0b1a60df04270-bluetooth.service-gABPPO) failed: (Permission denied)
Jun 04 03:03:35 Noelle-PC dolphin[2911]: inotify_add_watch(/var/tmp/systemd-private-723189545872410f81d0b1a60df04270-systemd-timesyncd.service-J4VxOy) failed: (Permission denied)
Jun 04 03:03:36 Noelle-PC dolphin[2911]: inotify_add_watch(/var/tmp/systemd-private-723189545872410f81d0b1a60df04270-upower.service-9sBfr0) failed: (Permission denied)
Jun 04 03:03:36 Noelle-PC dolphin[2911]: inotify_add_watch(/var/tmp/systemd-private-723189545872410f81d0b1a60df04270-systemd-logind.service-hMdIkq) failed: (Permission denied)
Jun 04 03:03:36 Noelle-PC dolphin[2911]: inotify_add_watch(/var/tmp/systemd-private-723189545872410f81d0b1a60df04270-ModemManager.service-x6oltX) failed: (Permission denied)
Jun 04 03:03:36 Noelle-PC dolphin[2911]: inotify_add_watch(/var/tmp/systemd-private-723189545872410f81d0b1a60df04270-bluetooth.service-gABPPO) failed: (Permission denied)
Jun 04 03:03:36 Noelle-PC dolphin[2911]: inotify_add_watch(/var/tmp/systemd-private-723189545872410f81d0b1a60df04270-systemd-timesyncd.service-J4VxOy) failed: (Permission denied)
Jun 04 03:03:37 Noelle-PC dolphin[2911]: inotify_add_watch(/var/tmp/systemd-private-723189545872410f81d0b1a60df04270-upower.service-9sBfr0) failed: (Permission denied)
Jun 04 03:03:38 Noelle-PC dolphin[2911]: inotify_add_watch(/var/tmp/systemd-private-723189545872410f81d0b1a60df04270-upower.service-9sBfr0) failed: (Permission denied)
Jun 04 03:03:39 Noelle-PC dolphin[2911]: inotify_add_watch(/var/tmp/systemd-private-723189545872410f81d0b1a60df04270-upower.service-9sBfr0) failed: (Permission denied)
Jun 04 03:03:39 Noelle-PC dolphin[2911]: inotify_add_watch(/var/tmp/systemd-private-723189545872410f81d0b1a60df04270-systemd-logind.service-hMdIkq) failed: (Permission denied)
Jun 04 03:03:39 Noelle-PC dolphin[2911]: inotify_add_watch(/var/tmp/systemd-private-723189545872410f81d0b1a60df04270-ModemManager.service-x6oltX) failed: (Permission denied)
Jun 04 03:03:39 Noelle-PC dolphin[2911]: inotify_add_watch(/var/tmp/systemd-private-723189545872410f81d0b1a60df04270-bluetooth.service-gABPPO) failed: (Permission denied)
Jun 04 03:03:39 Noelle-PC dolphin[2911]: inotify_add_watch(/var/tmp/systemd-private-723189545872410f81d0b1a60df04270-systemd-timesyncd.service-J4VxOy) failed: (Permission denied)
Jun 04 03:04:19 Noelle-PC dolphin[2911]: inotify_add_watch(/etc/sudoers.d) failed: (Permission denied)
Jun 04 03:04:19 Noelle-PC dolphin[2911]: inotify_add_watch(/etc/wireguard) failed: (Permission denied)

sudo dmesg --level emerg,alert,crit,err,warn output:

[    0.110646] ENERGY_PERF_BIAS: Set to 'normal', was 'performance'
[    1.961953] hid-generic 0003:0D8C:0005.0004: No inputs registered, leaving
[    2.730231] vboxdrv: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[    2.767454] VBoxNetAdp: Successfully started.
[    2.772613] VBoxNetFlt: Successfully started.
[    3.025092] wmi_bus wmi_bus-PNP0C14:00: WQBC data block query control method not found
[    3.187213] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000428-0x000000000000042F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000400-0x000000000000047F (\PMIO) (20210730/utaddress-204)
[    3.187223] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000540-0x000000000000054F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000500-0x0000000000000563 (\GPIO) (20210730/utaddress-204)
[    3.187227] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000530-0x000000000000053F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000500-0x0000000000000563 (\GPIO) (20210730/utaddress-204)
[    3.187230] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000500-0x000000000000052F conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000500-0x0000000000000563 (\GPIO) (20210730/utaddress-204)
[    3.187233] lpc_ich: Resource conflict(s) found affecting gpio_ich
[    3.300731] r8168  Copyright (C) 2021 Realtek NIC software team <nicfae@realtek.com> 
                This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details, please see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. 
                This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. 
[    3.891840] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[    3.891845] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint

[    4.021599] at24 0-0050: supply vcc not found, using dummy regulator
[    4.046487] at24 0-0051: supply vcc not found, using dummy regulator
[    4.047496] at24 0-0053: supply vcc not found, using dummy regulator
[    4.084469] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: firmware Patch file not found, tried:
[    4.084470] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: 'brcm/BCM20702B0-19ff-0239.hcd'
[    4.084471] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: 'brcm/BCM-19ff-0239.hcd'
[    4.093193] usb 1-1.6: 3:1: cannot get freq at ep 0x84
[    4.149782] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  510.73.05  Sat May  7 05:30:26 UTC 2022
[    5.014387] nvidia_uvm: module uses symbols from proprietary module nvidia, inheriting taint.
[    5.126175] kauditd_printk_skb: 37 callbacks suppressed
[   10.302299] ntfs3: sda2: volume is dirty and "force" flag is not set!
[   10.565787] usb 1-1.6: 3:1: cannot get freq at ep 0x84
[   10.569048] usb 1-1.6: 3:1: cannot get freq at ep 0x84
[   10.772326] kauditd_printk_skb: 38 callbacks suppressed
[   10.915680] ntfs3: sdb1: volume is dirty and "force" flag is not set!

Along with all this mess, I have noticed a couple other weird things. My monitor settings seem to be reset everytime I restart (refresh rate changes and monitors are misaligned) and icons in my system tray (for, say, Discord) are just completely gone. I have no idea what of these issues are related to each other or what I did but I figured they’d be worth mentioning anyway.

inxi info:

System:
  Kernel: 5.15.41-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.1.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.15-x86_64
    root=UUID=b1581353-f1b1-4e88-a51a-e2f4f4f5de19 rw quiet apparmor=1
    security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.24.5 tk: Qt v: 5.15.4 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM
    Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Dell product: OptiPlex 7010 v: 01
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 15 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Dell model: 0GXM1W v: A02 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Dell
    v: A29 date: 06/28/2018
Battery:
  Message: No system battery data found. Is one present?
Memory:
  RAM: total: 7.72 GiB used: 3.81 GiB (49.3%)
  RAM Report:
    permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i5-3470 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Ivy Bridge
    family: 6 model-id: 0x3A (58) stepping: 9 microcode: 0x21
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 smt: <unsupported> cache: L1: 256 KiB
    desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB desc: 4x256 KiB L3: 6 MiB
    desc: 1x6 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1830 high: 1957 min/max: 1600/3600 scaling:
    driver: intel_cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 1886 2: 1766 3: 1957
    4: 1712 bogomips: 25548
  Flags: acpi aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon avx bts clflush cmov
    constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept
    erms est f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht ibpb ibrs ida
    lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae
    pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts
    rdrand rdtscp rep_good sep smep smx ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
    stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid
    x2apic xsave xsaveopt xtopology xtpr
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf
    mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT disabled
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled
  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: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
    STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
  Type: srbds status: Vulnerable: No microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GP108 [GeForce GT 1030] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: nvidia v: 510.73.05 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 515.xx+
    status: current (as of 2022-05) arch: Pascal pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s
    lanes: 4 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1d01 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: WaveRider USB 2.0 Camera type: USB
    driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-1.6:5 chip-ID: 0c46:636b
    class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.3 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.1
    compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: nvidia gpu: nvidia display-ID: :0
    screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x1080 s-dpi: 92 s-size: 1060x301mm (41.73x11.85")
    s-diag: 1102mm (43.38")
  Monitor-1: DP-0 pos: primary,left res: 1920x1080 hz: 120 dpi: 92
    size: 531x299mm (20.91x11.77") diag: 609mm (23.99") modes: N/A
  Monitor-2: HDMI-0 pos: right res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 94
    size: 521x293mm (20.51x11.54") diag: 598mm (23.53") modes: N/A
  OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030/PCIe/SSE2
    v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 510.73.05 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio vendor: Dell
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:1e20
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP108 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 4
    bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0fb8 class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: WaveRider USB 2.0 Camera type: USB
    driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-1.6:5 chip-ID: 0c46:636b
    class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
  Device-4: Logitech G433 Gaming Headset type: USB
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 3-1:2 chip-ID: 046d:0a6d
    class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
  Device-5: C-Media Blue Snowball type: USB
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 3-2:3 chip-ID: 0d8c:0005
    class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.41-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.21 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.51 running: no
Network:
  Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network vendor: Dell driver: e1000e
    v: kernel port: f040 bus-ID: 00:19.0 chip-ID: 8086:1502 class-ID: 0200
  IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
    broadcast: <filter>
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: TP-LINK TG-3468 driver: r8168 v: 8.049.02-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>
  WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Dynex Bluetooth 4.0 Adapter [Broadcom 1.12 BCM20702A0] type: USB
    driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 3-4:5 chip-ID: 19ff:0239 class-ID: fe01
    serial: <filter>
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.36 TiB used: 793.27 GiB (56.8%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WDBNCE5000PNC
    size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 20RL scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Toshiba model: MQ04ABF100
    size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: 1J scheme: GPT
  Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 185.86 GiB size: 182.77 GiB (98.34%)
    used: 161.36 GiB (88.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6 maj-min: 8:6 label: N/A
    uuid: b1581353-f1b1-4e88-a51a-e2f4f4f5de19
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 100 MiB size: 96 MiB (96.00%)
    used: 29.5 MiB (30.7%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 label: N/A
    uuid: FADE-C70B
  ID-3: /run/media/noelle/04119d88-1d88-4b65-8b29-dab965773776
    raw-size: 712.37 GiB size: 700.13 GiB (98.28%) used: 438.58 GiB (62.6%)
    fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb2 maj-min: 8:18 label: N/A
    uuid: 04119d88-1d88-4b65-8b29-dab965773776
  ID-4: /run/media/noelle/Windows Games raw-size: 219.14 GiB
    size: 219.14 GiB (100.00%) used: 193.3 GiB (88.2%) fs: ntfs dev: /dev/sdb1
    maj-min: 8:17 label: Windows Games uuid: 6E688C19688BDE69
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 3 GiB used: 14 MiB (0.5%) priority: -2
    file: /swapfile
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 50 MiB fs: ntfs label: System Reserved
    uuid: 542EBB982EBB721A
  ID-2: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 size: 278.71 GiB fs: ntfs label: N/A
    uuid: 8ACEBC24CEBC0A89
  ID-3: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 size: 564 MiB fs: ntfs label: N/A
    uuid: F2AC1E18AC1DD845
  ID-4: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5 size: 510 MiB fs: ntfs label: N/A
    uuid: E2DEB2EDDEB2B8DD
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-2: 1-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 8087:0024 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-1.4:3 info: Wacom CTL-4100 [Intuos (S)] type: HID
    driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
    power: 500mA chip-ID: 056a:0374 class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
  Device-2: 1-1.5:4 info: Logitech G402 Gaming Mouse type: Mouse,HID
    driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
    power: 300mA chip-ID: 046d:c07e class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
  Device-3: 1-1.6:5 info: WaveRider USB 2.0 Camera type: Video,Audio
    driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
    power: 500mA chip-ID: 0c46:636b class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
  Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 3 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-4: 2-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 8 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 8087:0024 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-5: 3-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 4 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 3-1:2 info: Logitech G433 Gaming Headset type: Audio,HID
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0
    speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 046d:0a6d class-ID: 0300
    serial: <filter>
  Device-2: 3-2:3 info: C-Media Blue Snowball type: Audio,HID
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 1.1
    speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 0d8c:0005 class-ID: 0300
    serial: <filter>
  Device-3: 3-3:4 info: Logitech G512 RGB MECHANICAL GAMING KEYBOARD
    type: Keyboard,HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0
    speed: 12 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 046d:c33c class-ID: 0300
    serial: <filter>
  Device-4: 3-4:5
    info: Dynex Bluetooth 4.0 Adapter [Broadcom 1.12 BCM20702A0] type: Bluetooth
    driver: btusb interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA
    chip-ID: 19ff:0239 class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
  Hub-6: 4-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: nvidia temp: 60 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 48%
Info:
  Processes: 231 Uptime: 52m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl
  Compilers: gcc: 12.1.0 clang: 13.0.1 Packages: 1625 note: see --pkg
  pacman: 1588 lib: 486 flatpak: 34 snap: 3 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 default: Bash
  v: 5.1.16 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.16

One thing stands out - your root file system is full

sudo journalctl  --vaccum-size=50M
sudo paccache -ruk0

Another disk space hog is snapstore applications - so if you are using such thing - you have some housekeeping to do.

Another possibility - if you are using btrfs - more housekeeping.

The filesystem shouldn’t be full, right below that line says only 88% has been used. I have a solid amount of free space and this hadn’t happened before with even less storage.
Regardless I tried those commands and cleaning up a bit but the issue is still there.

Not that it should matter, but caught my interest:

  • 8 GB of RAM (shouldn’t really cause such slowdowns nor erratic behaviors)
  • Third-generation i5 CPU (again, shouldn’t really cause issues)

When you boot into Windows, do you notice any odd behavior, slowdowns, or inconsistencies?


What about the SMART reports for your SSD and HDD?

sudo smartctl -l error /dev/sda

sudo smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda

sudo smartctl -l error /dev/sdb

sudo smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdb

Have you ran a short or extended SMART selftest on the drives recently?

It’s definitely not the best hardware but it’s worked perfectly fine for quite a while so I don’t know what would have changed.
I unfortunately can’t boot into Windows to test because of completely unrelated Windows boot issues.
Tried all those commands and it’s just “no errors logged” and “completed without error”.

You’re sure it’s unrelated?


If those were my drives, just to (somewhat) rule something out, I would run a short selftest on each one, and if they both pass without any errors, then I would proceed to run a long selftest on both drives.

Don’t wanna crash in here but is it system boot or log into your user profile which hangs?
Does the following give any indication?

systemd-analyze blame 
systemd-analyze blame --user

systemd-analyze blame output

9.472s systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service
2.384s systemd-modules-load.service
1.491s man-db.service
1.452s systemd-random-seed.service
1.020s NetworkManager-wait-online.service
1.005s dev-loop2.device
1.002s dev-loop3.device
 989ms dev-loop1.device
 986ms dev-loop0.device
 875ms dev-sda6.device
 438ms apparmor.service
 325ms udisks2.service
 320ms ldconfig.service
 243ms snapd.service
 241ms systemd-rfkill.service
 173ms user@1000.service
 148ms polkit.service
 130ms systemd-udevd.service
 118ms ModemManager.service
 101ms upower.service
  88ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
  87ms bluetooth.service
  85ms packagekit.service
  85ms boot-efi.mount
  84ms avahi-daemon.service
  80ms systemd-udev-trigger.service
  79ms systemd-logind.service
  78ms lvm2-monitor.service
  78ms dbus.service
  73ms systemd-timesyncd.service
  71ms cups.service
  58ms NetworkManager.service
  58ms systemd-journald.service
  45ms var-lib-snapd-snap-core20-1494.mount
  44ms snapd.apparmor.service
  42ms systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-FADE\x2dC70B.service
  38ms systemd-sysusers.service
  38ms var-lib-snapd-snap-core20-1434.mount
  38ms accounts-daemon.service
  36ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
  36ms var-lib-snapd-snap-snapd-15534.mount
  34ms var-lib-snapd-snap-snapd-15904.mount
  26ms pamac-daemon.service
  24ms systemd-update-utmp.service
  17ms systemd-journal-catalog-update.service
  17ms modprobe@fuse.service
  16ms tmp.mount
  14ms systemd-binfmt.service
  13ms systemd-journal-flush.service
  11ms user-runtime-dir@1000.service
  11ms dev-hugepages.mount
  10ms dev-mqueue.mount
  10ms systemd-remount-fs.service
  10ms alsa-restore.service
  10ms swapfile.swap
   9ms sys-kernel-debug.mount
   9ms sys-kernel-tracing.mount
   9ms systemd-update-done.service
   8ms rtkit-daemon.service
   8ms sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount
   7ms kmod-static-nodes.service
   6ms modprobe@configfs.service
   6ms modprobe@drm.service
   4ms proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.mount
   4ms systemd-sysctl.service
   4ms systemd-user-sessions.service
   1ms sys-kernel-config.mount
 493us snapd.socket

systemd-analyze blame --user output

1.607s gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor.service
 956ms pulseaudio.service
 438ms plasma-krunner.service
 282ms xdg-desktop-portal.service
 186ms app-org.kde.spectacle.service
 157ms plasma-xdg-desktop-portal-kde.service
 150ms plasma-baloorunner.service
 109ms plasma-kglobalaccel.service
  51ms plasma-kactivitymanagerd.service
  34ms plasma-kscreen.service
  31ms gamemoded.service
  25ms gvfs-daemon.service
  24ms dbus.service
  19ms xdg-document-portal.service
  18ms gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor.service
  14ms gvfs-mtp-volume-monitor.service
   8ms gvfs-metadata.service
   7ms gvfs-afc-volume-monitor.service
   7ms at-spi-dbus-bus.service
   6ms dbus.socket
   6ms xdg-permission-store.service
   4ms dconf.service
   3ms xdg-user-dirs-update.service

I guess I can’t be completely sure, the Windows issue has been happening for like a month at this point and I’ve never bothered to fix it since Manjaro worked fine so I have no idea.
I’ll try running those tests if I can figure it out lol.

The drive SMART selftests?

They’re internal to the drive itself (the OS is “out-of-the-loop” once a test is initiated.)

You can’t really monitor the progress in real-time, but rather infer when the test will complete by (1) checking back after the manufacturer’s ETA (for the test duration), (2) check with smartctl -a /dev/sdX and see if the drive includes a “remaining %” progress, or (3) see if a new selftest entry is logged with smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdX

To initiate a short selftest:

sudo smartctl -t short /dev/sdX

To initiate a long selftest:

sudo smartctl -t long /dev/sdX

Do not try to initiate another test on the same drive before the current one completes, otherwise it will abort the test. The short selftests usually only take a few minutes. The long ones can take hours and hours, depending on the size and build of the drive.

You can review the drive’s specifications and selftest ETAs with smartctl -a /dev/sdX

What size is your /var/tmp/ folder? (No need to post output, just size is important)

ls -lhS /var/tmp/ 

Also check size of

pamac clean --build-files --dry-run

Line says “total 120K”.

6.6gb.

I did a short test then a long test like you suggested and honestly I have no idea how to read this output but from what I can see I don’t think there’s anything wrong in here. Take a look.

smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-5.15.41-1-MANJARO] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model:     WDC  WDBNCE5000PNC
Serial Number:    21245G801758
LU WWN Device Id: 5 001b44 8ba08eefd
Firmware Version: 415020RL
User Capacity:    500,107,862,016 bytes [500 GB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate:    Solid State Device
Form Factor:      2.5 inches
TRIM Command:     Available, deterministic, zeroed
Device is:        Not in smartctl database 7.3/5319
ATA Version is:   ACS-4 T13/BSR INCITS 529 revision 5
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.3, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Sat Jun  4 13:21:43 2022 MDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x00) Offline data collection activity
                                        was never started.
                                        Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status:      (   0) The previous self-test routine completed
                                        without error or no self-test has ever 
                                        been run.
Total time to complete Offline 
data collection:                (    0) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities:                    (0x11) SMART execute Offline immediate.
                                        No Auto Offline data collection support.
                                        Suspend Offline collection upon new
                                        command.
                                        No Offline surface scan supported.
                                        Self-test supported.
                                        No Conveyance Self-test supported.
                                        No Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:            (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
                                        power-saving mode.
                                        Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:        (0x01) Error logging supported.
                                        General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine 
recommended polling time:        (   2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time:        (  10) minutes.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 4
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0032   100   100   ---    Old_age   Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   100   100   ---    Old_age   Always       -       7143
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   ---    Old_age   Always       -       195
165 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   ---    Old_age   Always       -       674558774711
166 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   ---    Old_age   Always       -       1
167 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   ---    Old_age   Always       -       23
168 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   ---    Old_age   Always       -       44
169 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   ---    Old_age   Always       -       112
170 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   ---    Old_age   Always       -       0
171 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   ---    Old_age   Always       -       0
172 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   ---    Old_age   Always       -       0
173 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   ---    Old_age   Always       -       18
174 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   ---    Old_age   Always       -       75
184 End-to-End_Error        0x0032   100   100   ---    Old_age   Always       -       0
187 Reported_Uncorrect      0x0032   100   100   ---    Old_age   Always       -       0
188 Command_Timeout         0x0032   100   100   ---    Old_age   Always       -       1
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   059   052   ---    Old_age   Always       -       41 (Min/Max 18/52)
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   100   100   ---    Old_age   Always       -       0
230 Unknown_SSD_Attribute   0x0032   007   007   ---    Old_age   Always       -       7705193350914
232 Available_Reservd_Space 0x0033   100   100   004    Pre-fail  Always       -       100
233 Media_Wearout_Indicator 0x0032   100   100   ---    Old_age   Always       -       9591
234 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   ---    Old_age   Always       -       26099
241 Total_LBAs_Written      0x0030   253   253   ---    Old_age   Offline      -       19173
242 Total_LBAs_Read         0x0030   253   253   ---    Old_age   Offline      -       20060
244 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   000   100   ---    Old_age   Always       -       0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      7143         -
# 2  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%      7141         -
# 3  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      6124         -
# 4  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      6075         -
# 5  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      5448         -
# 6  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      4780         -
# 7  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      4734         -
# 8  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      4036         -
# 9  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      4016         -
#10  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1107         -
#11  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1038         -
#12  Short offline       Completed without error       00%       434         -
#13  Short offline       Completed without error       00%        45         -
#14  Short offline       Completed without error       00%        44         -
#15  Short offline       Completed without error       00%         6         -

Selective Self-tests/Logging not supported

For the SSD, everything seems in order.

What about the other drive? (I know the long selftest will take a while for a 1 TB HDD.)


Curious, even though this shouldn’t affect the read performance of the SSD, when was the last time it was trimmed?

systemctl status fstrim.timer

journalctl -u fstrim.service

Arrgh - I missed that line in the quote.

I come from a time when a disk was considered full at 35% as the reading would begin to slow down - head movement on spinning disks.

This makes @winnie’s comment more relevant.

With SSD the behavior is different. In layman’s terms cells with deleted files are not discarded automatically - too much wear on the device - therefore the device has to be trimmed once in a while - this is what the fstrim.timer does - schedule a discard every fortnight.

When a device has only 10% left - it is far too easy to ram into the deleted files - not yet discarded cells barrier.

Try running fstrim manullay (using the --all flag will trim devices supporting trim) and use the --verbose flag to show the number of discard bytes

sudo fstrim /dev/sda6 --verbose
○ fstrim.timer - Discard unused blocks once a week
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/fstrim.timer; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: inactive (dead)
    Trigger: n/a
   Triggers: ● fstrim.service
       Docs: man:fstrim
-- No entries --

Not sure what these mean but I feel like having nothing is probably a bad sign lol.

Ran this command (with --all) and it seems to have done something, I’ll reboot and see if anything changed

Because the timer was never activated.

sudo systemctl start fstrim.timer

Starting the timer and even manually forcing a trim is not enough.

You need to leave the computer powered on to let the SSD do its internal garbage collection.

Rebooted and nothing fixed, plus new oddity just dropped:
Screenshot_20220605_104912
Stays like this for pretty much the entire 10 min duration of being frozen. I’m wondering if a reinstall might be my only option at this point.

The result fromt the status command tells us the timer is not active and unless the fstab contains the discard option - your disk has not been trimmed and the hang issue is likely caused by no more free space.

Follow @winnie’s instruction - as for how long it takes for a device to recognize the discarded cells - I don’t know. For a Western Digital model: WDBNCE5000PNC one would expect it to reasonably fast.

It’s possible.


So far, here’s a summary of things:

:warning: Random sluggishness, hanging, and a slow boot / login process.

:warning: Random graphical glitching and freezing

:warning: Unable to boot into Windows

:question: SSD likely hasn’t been trimmed in a while (may not be related)

:question: Toshiba HDD may or may not have SMART errors (no long test result, may not be related)

:question: Bad RAM or CPU can manifest as random errors and slowdowns

:white_check_mark: A fresh install might (temporarily) resolve these issues

Even if a fresh installation does resolve all of the issues, who knows how long it will last? Also, you’re still unable to boot into Windows.


Some things to try (and at least “do” for the sake of doing it):

  • Re-install the nvidia drivers and/or try with the open-source drivers (might not be related)

  • Run a short and long SMART selftest on the HDD (/dev/sdb) and check for errors

  • Run a memtest on your RAM

  • Run a full stress test (such as with mprime) on your CPU

Before re-installation I would first start to lighten the system. Clear all kinds of cache, temp, baggage files. Outsource some files from the partition to an external storage. Remove some of unused programs, check/deactivate some of your configured mounts, etc.

Your snaps also require some time for boot, that’s minor though and possibly just a symptom.

While I don’t know if the issue emerged slowly or because of a user/system action it seems more a hang while starting the user profile, with some other system processing in the background, e.g. slow access of disk. As mentioned by others, Nvidia, fstab, also deactivate the splash screen in settings and go through your files and programs.