[PROBLEM] Sometimes hangs(stuck) when booting on the splash screen after login (login screen appears twice)

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#1

The described problem appeared not so long ago. After installing the 5.9 kernel, I noticed that sometimes the system doesn’t boot and the boot process freezes on the splash screen.

Sequence of actions:

  • turn on the laptop
  • when loading, select the kernel 5.9
  • I see lines of text appear on the black screen
  • a password entry window appears
  • I enter my password and press Enter
  • again I see lines of text appear on the black screen
  • the login and password window appears AGAIN
  • I enter the password AGAIN and press Enter
  • the SplashScreen appears
  • the system doesn’t respond to anything else
  • sometimes the mouse cursor appears, but the system also does not load further than this screen

The Ctrl+F2 key combination works and I can log in, but it doesn’t help.

If I press Ctrl+Alt+Del, a choice of actions appears - restart, turn off, and so on. But this screen with a choice of actions does not look like a normal one - it does not have a background image and the buttons are on a black background. In addition, the buttons on the screen do not respond to the keyboard and mouse.

The problem only occurs on the 5.9 kernel.

Spec:
Acer Nitro 5 AN515-44
Operating System: Manjaro Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.75.0
Qt Version: 5.15.1
Kernel Version: 5.9.3-1-MANJARO
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 4600H with Radeon Graphics
Memory: 7,2 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD RENOIR

system_info.txt
journalctl_log
sddm.log

#2

can you returns line boot
from

inxi -Fza
#3 
System:    Kernel: 5.9.3-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.9-x86_64 root=UUID=29bb1a52-a1c8-4301-96a0-db86462db6f6 rw 
           acpi_backlight=vendor apparmor=1 security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3 
           Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.20.2 tk: Qt 5.15.1 info: latte-dock wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Nitro AN515-44 v: V1.02 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: RO model: Stonic_RNS v: V1.02 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: 1.02 date: 06/16/2020 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT1 charge: 50.7 Wh condition: 56.4/57.5 Wh (98%) volts: 17.4/15.4 model: LGC AP18E8M type: Li-ion 
           serial: <filter> status: Charging 
CPU:       Info: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 4600H with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen family: 17 (23) 
           model-id: 60 (96) stepping: 1 microcode: 8600103 L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 71894 
           Speed: 1550 MHz min/max: 1400/3000 MHz boost: disabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1550 2: 1880 3: 1676 4: 1842 5: 1879 
           6: 1407 7: 1950 8: 1396 9: 1491 10: 1800 11: 1830 12: 2011 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected 
           Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
           Type: mds status: Not affected 
           Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
           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 AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
           Type: srbds status: Not affected 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA TU117M vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: nvidia v: 455.38 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm 
           bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1f99 
           Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Renoir vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: amdgpu v: kernel 
           bus ID: 05:00.0 chip ID: 1002:1636 
           Device-3: Chicony HD User Facing type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus ID: 3-3:2 chip ID: 04f2:b64f serial: <filter> 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: amdgpu,nvidia FAILED: ati 
           unloaded: modesetting,nouveau alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa display ID: :0 screens: 1 
           Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2") s-diag: 582mm (22.9") 
           Monitor-1: eDP res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142 size: 344x194mm (13.5x7.6") diag: 395mm (15.5") 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (DRM 3.39.0 5.9.3-1-MANJARO LLVM 10.0.1) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.2.1 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI 
           driver: N/A alternate: snd_pci_acp3x, snd_rn_pci_acp3x bus ID: 05:00.5 chip ID: 1022:15e2 
           Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel 
           v: kernel bus ID: 05:00.6 chip ID: 1022:15e3 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.9.3-1-MANJARO 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 2000 bus ID: 03:00.0 
           chip ID: 10ec:2600 
           IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: 2000 bus ID: 04:00.0 chip ID: 8086:2723 
           IF: wlp4s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 125.77 GiB (52.7%) 
           SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: SK Hynix model: HFM256GDJTNI-82A0A size: 238.47 GiB block size: physical: 512 B 
           logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> rev: 11000C00 scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 238.17 GiB size: 233.43 GiB (98.01%) used: 125.77 GiB (53.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 
Swap:      Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache pressure: 100 (default) 
           ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 8.00 GiB used: 9.0 MiB (0.1%) priority: -2 file: /swapfile 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 38.9 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 37.0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:      Processes: 314 Uptime: 1h 35m Memory: 7.21 GiB used: 3.78 GiB (52.4%) Init: systemd v: 246 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 
           Packages: pacman: 1285 lib: 351 flatpak: 0 Shell: Bash v: 5.0.18 running in: konsole inxi: 3.1.08
#4

there ares theses links topics
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=257449
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA_Optimus#Use_NVIDIA_graphics_only

be careful with kernel5.9 and nvidias drivers ,
can this working with 450xx series ?

#5

I don’t want to make such changes (use Nvidia only), it might cause problems, and I need my laptop for work.
What could be the problem? Maybe I should issue a bug report for KDE or SDDM or smth else?

#6

can you provide

sudo mhwd -li

this point in log is to good

pci 0000:00:00.2: AMD-Vi: Unable to read/write to IOMMU perf >
#7 
> Installed PCI configs:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
video-hybrid-amd-nvidia-455xx-prime            2020.10.04               false            PCI
           video-linux            2018.05.04                true            PCI


Warning: No installed USB configs!
#8

I plan to try going back to the 450 driver and see if the login problem remains. Should I do this?

#9

or try with 450xx series

#10

I reinstalled SDDM and 455 Nvidia driver … so far, the problem has not appeared again, I hope that this helped. If so, then it’s some kind of magic :smile:

#11

It didn’t help. The problem appears even on the 450 driver and the 5.9 kernel. And after last SDDM update too. But now it just freezes after entering the password and pressing Enter.

I created an issue for SDDM: Hang on login screen · Issue #1330 · sddm/sddm · GitHub

Any other ideas?

Some fresh logs: Dropbox - SomeNovemberLogs.zip - Simplify your life

#12

sometimes I have the same problem, look at this Login screen freezes, could not connect to display startx works for me.

#13

I installed Manjaro today and am having the same problem. During the black screen I get

Failed to start Load/Save Screen Backlight Brightness of backlight:acp_video0

&

Failed to start Load/Save Screen Backlight Brightness of backlight:amdgpu_bl1

and on the second login screen I get to splash screen where it loads and gets stuck and my cursor is on screen and can be moved. Using safe mode worked for me though

#14

I had the same problem with kernel 5.8.
I installed kernel 5.4. LTS and this problem didn´t occur anymore.

#15

Got tired of it, I did a fresh install, just updated system, install programs, and so far it’s working ok. It seems like its a kernel problem, just like Keruskerfuerst said . We’ll have to wait unil 5.10 becomes stable, 5.4 doesn’t work with my laptop.

#16

Unfortunately, my laptop will not work properly on kernel 5.4.
Let’s hope that this bug will be fixed soon.
Could it be a KDE problem?

#17

Have you tried this? Problems when using nvidia non-free driver I did that change in the grub, and the failed to start doesn’t appear anymore.

#18

I don’t think so, I had xfce the first time I commented the previous post.

#19

Ah, ok.
Thanks, @guillopacheco ! I had already changed this line before (acpi_backlight). But I used the ‘vendor’ value, now I put ‘video’. I updated the grub and the system booted normally.
Let’s see what happens. The problem doesn’t always show up, I’ll test it.