My system is slow

[Guirec]

I have made a major update of the system two days ago (an old tower with good equipment running on xfce) and it is now inexplicably slow.

The boot process is normal with no apparent problem and some software are opening normally (even blender or gimp) while other are terribly slow (over 40’’ to (re)launch libreoffice, similar for thunderbird or firefox).

I did downgrade the kernel to 5.15, checked the graphical driver (kernel driver in use: nvidia is correct for my hardware) and some of these usual software are starting slow. I did reinstall firefox also to make sure and start time is over 20’’

How should I further investigate this?

[brahma]

Very slow startup on some apps after update

After the last major update of Manjaro on June 4th, some of the applications in Manjaro Xfce, such as Firefox, LibreOffice, Thunderbird, etc., started up very slowly. In my case, the solution was to uninstall the package “xdg-desktop-portal-gnome”. Every time there is a major update, I tremble

[Guirec]

This is working indeeed even with the 6.2 kernel reactivated!
Thanks a lot, I hope this will be solved in a further update

[anon58447167]

journalctl -f was useful for investigating this, when starting Firefox/Thunderbird/etc. it could be seen in the log:

kesä 06 12:28:20 ix dbus-daemon[1694]: [session uid=1000 pid=1694] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop' unit='xdg-desktop-portal.service' requested by ':1.187' (uid=1000 pid=8231 comm="/usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird")
kesä 06 12:28:21 ix systemd[1677]: Starting Portal service...
kesä 06 12:28:21 ix dbus-daemon[1694]: [session uid=1000 pid=1694] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.impl.portal.desktop.gnome' unit='xdg-desktop-portal-gnome.service' requested by ':1.189' (uid=1000 pid=8274 comm="/usr/lib/xdg-desktop-portal")
kesä 06 12:28:21 ix systemd[1677]: Current graphical user session is inactive.
kesä 06 12:28:21 ix systemd[1677]: Dependency failed for Portal service (GNOME implementation).
kesä 06 12:28:21 ix systemd[1677]: xdg-desktop-portal-gnome.service: Job xdg-desktop-portal-gnome.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.

I also use Manjaro XFCE, not GNOME. Removing “xdg-desktop-portal-gnome” fixed the problem. Thank you!