Slow boot times on Manjaro Kde

Reyyan · 14 September 2022 14:33

Hello everyone, I installed Manjaro on my laptop about a month ago and theres one thing thats been disturbing me at time. My manjaro is pretty slow to boot up. I have no idea how to fix this so im here to get some help to the least. Im a newbie and i know some basics of linux. My laptops specs are as following :-

Cpu: Core i3 350m
Gpu: None
Ram: 4 Gigs
Hdd: 300 Gb

I am also dual booting windows 7 with manjaro kde. It takes around 2:30 minutes for me to be able to use my laptop. The partition i installed manjaro on is also a extended partition. i dont know if this has any effect on my boot times. I am also using the zen kernal as my daily driver

Mirdarthos · 14 September 2022 14:39

Hi @Reyyan,

Please see:

Also, please provide the output for:

systemd-analyze blame | head -n 20

Hope you manage!

Keruskerfuerst · 14 September 2022 14:39

Can you post inxi -Fza on console ?

Reyyan · 14 September 2022 14:42

Hello there, I will check up on the post afterwards

Here are the outputs on the command:

18.041s udisks2.service
 8.650s dev-sda5.device
 7.858s dev-loop0.device
 4.761s ModemManager.service
 4.397s cups.service
 3.440s systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service
 2.960s polkit.service
 2.724s dbus.service
 2.721s systemd-logind.service
 1.804s lvm2-monitor.service
 1.480s systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
 1.402s upower.service
 1.109s user@1000.service
 1.098s NetworkManager.service
 1.053s snapd.service
  999ms systemd-udevd.service
  805ms wpa_supplicant.service
  733ms systemd-udev-trigger.service
  661ms modprobe@fuse.service
  516ms systemd-random-seed.service

Reyyan · 14 September 2022 14:43

Here are the command outputs:

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = "",
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LC_ADDRESS = "en_US.UTF-8",
        LC_IDENTIFICATION = "en_US.UTF-8",
        LC_MEASUREMENT = "en_US.UTF-8",
        LC_MONETARY = "Default.UTF-8",
        LC_NAME = "en_US.UTF-8",
        LC_NUMERIC = "en_US.UTF-8",
        LC_PAPER = "en_US.UTF-8",
        LC_TELEPHONE = "en_US.UTF-8",
        LC_TIME = "en_US.UTF-8",
        LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to a fallback locale ("en_US.UTF-8").
System:
  Kernel: 5.18.16-zen1-1-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.1.1
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
    root=UUID=d5f62ce4-c66c-4d67-b50e-44daba642345 rw
    i915.enable_dpcd_backlight=0 quiet
    resume=UUID=cb4185d1-f25c-458e-81e6-6d14df23566b udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.24.6 tk: Qt v: 5.15.5 info: latte-dock
    wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Portable System: Dell product: Inspiron N5010 v: A02
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Dell model: 0WXY9J v: A02 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI-[Legacy]: Dell v: A02 date: 04/09/2010
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 1.3 Wh (100.0%) condition: 1.3/48.8 Wh (2.6%)
    volts: 11.2 min: 11.1 model: Samsung DELL 7XFJJ05 type: Li-ion
    serial: <filter> status: full
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i3 M 350 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: 2 microcode: 0x11
  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: 3 MiB desc: 1x3 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2261 min/max: 931/2261 scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq
    governor: schedutil cores: 1: 2261 2: 2261 3: 2261 4: 2261 bogomips: 18087
  Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT
    vulnerable
  Type: mds status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode;
    SMT vulnerable
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed 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
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics vendor: Dell
    driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-5.75 process: Intel 45nm built: 2010
    ports: active: LVDS-1 empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1,VGA-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0
    chip-ID: 8086:0046 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Microdia Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_1.3M type: USB
    driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-1.6:4 chip-ID: 0c45:6461 class-ID: 0e02
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.4 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.3
    compositor: kwin_x11 driver: gpu: i915 note:  X driver n/a display-ID: :0
    screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.21x7.99")
    s-diag: 414mm (16.31")
  Monitor-1: LVDS-1 mapped: LVDS1 model: Seiko Epson 0x5441 built: 2009
    res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 102 gamma: 1.2 size: 340x190mm (13.39x7.48")
    diag: 395mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9 modes: 1366x768
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics (ILK) v: 2.1 Mesa 22.1.6
    direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio vendor: Dell
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:3b56
    class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.18.16-zen1-1-zen running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.56 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Broadcom BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Dell
    Inspiron M5010 / XPS 8300 driver: bcma-pci-bridge v: N/A modules: bcma
    pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 12:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:4727
    class-ID: 0280
  Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: Dell
    driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: e000
    bus-ID: 13:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8136 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp19s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: wlp18s0b1 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 298.09 GiB used: 156.09 GiB (52.4%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: HN-M320MBB
    size: 298.09 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s
    type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: 0001 scheme: MBR
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 48.57 GiB size: 47.5 GiB (97.81%) used: 26.96 GiB (56.8%)
    fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 512 MiB used: 387.3 MiB (75.6%)
    priority: -2 file: /swapfile
  ID-2: swap-2 type: partition size: 4 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -3
    dev: /dev/sda8 maj-min: 8:8
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 76.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): fan-1: 3840
Info:
  Processes: 207 Uptime: 7h 53m wakeups: 1 Memory: 3.64 GiB used: 2.65 GiB
  (72.9%) Init: systemd v: 251 default: graphical tool: systemctl
  Compilers: gcc: 12.1.1 clang: 14.0.6 Packages: 1517 pm: pacman pkgs: 1515
  libs: 439 tools: pamac,yay pm: flatpak pkgs: 0 pm: snap pkgs: 2 Shell: Zsh
  v: 5.9 default: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.21

flux · 14 September 2022 14:47

Manjaro kernel that is not.

Mirdarthos · 14 September 2022 14:49

So this seems to be the service that takes the longest at about 18 seconds. So…I’ve got to ask, how long is your boot time?

Also, please provide the output for:

systemd-analyze

Reyyan · 14 September 2022 15:00

I just rebooted to double check and the login screen loaded up after 45 second and plasma loaded up at 3:50. Here is the systemd-analyze output:

Startup finished in 6.782s (kernel) + 28.144s (userspace) = 34.926s 
graphical.target reached after 27.261s in userspace.

Mirdarthos · 14 September 2022 15:02

What version of plasma do you use?

Reyyan · 14 September 2022 15:03

I am using Plasma 5.24.6

I also ran systemd-analyze blame | head -n 20 again and all of them took longer this time then usual

22.123s udisks2.service
12.004s dev-sda5.device
 9.566s dev-loop0.device
 8.765s dev-loop1.device
 5.626s ModemManager.service
 4.701s cups.service
 1.950s polkit.service
 1.837s upower.service
 1.804s lvm2-monitor.service
 1.720s systemd-logind.service
 1.714s dbus.service
 1.432s systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
 1.151s NetworkManager.service
 1.120s systemd-udevd.service
 1.111s user@1000.service
 1.078s systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
  880ms wpa_supplicant.service
  731ms systemd-udev-trigger.service
  543ms var-lib-snapd-snap-core-13741.mount

Mirdarthos · 14 September 2022 15:15

Please provide the output of:

journalctl --boot --priority=3

This will give all the errors and warnings from your current boot.

Let’s see if that gives us a clue. Because, if not, then I have no idea and we’ll have to wait and hope someone else does.

Reyyan · 14 September 2022 15:17

Here are the results:

Sep 14 20:53:17 reyyan-PC kernel: Support for cores revisions 0x17 and 0x18 disabled by module param allhwsupport=0. Try b43.allhwsupport=1
Sep 14 20:53:24 reyyan-PC kernel: brcmsmac bcma0:1: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: qos enabled: false (implement)
Sep 14 20:53:24 reyyan-PC kernel: brcmsmac bcma0:1: brcms_ops_config: change power-save mode: false (implement)
Sep 14 20:53:24 reyyan-PC kernel: brcmsmac bcma0:1: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: qos enabled: false (implement)
Sep 14 20:53:24 reyyan-PC kernel: brcmsmac bcma0:1: brcms_ops_config: change power-save mode: false (implement)
Sep 14 20:53:50 reyyan-PC kernel: brcmsmac bcma0:1: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: qos enabled: false (implement)
Sep 14 20:53:50 reyyan-PC kernel: brcmsmac bcma0:1: brcms_ops_config: change power-save mode: false (implement)
Sep 14 20:53:52 reyyan-PC kernel: brcmsmac bcma0:1: brcmsmac: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: associated
Sep 14 20:53:52 reyyan-PC kernel: brcmsmac bcma0:1: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: qos enabled: true (implement)
Sep 14 20:53:52 reyyan-PC kernel: brcmsmac bcma0:1: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: arp filtering: 1 addresses (implement)
Sep 14 20:54:42 reyyan-PC kernel: ntfs3: Unknown parameter 'windows_names'
Sep 14 20:54:42 reyyan-PC kernel: ntfs3: Unknown parameter 'windows_names'
Sep 14 20:54:42 reyyan-PC kernel: ntfs3: Unknown parameter 'windows_names'
Sep 14 20:54:43 reyyan-PC kernel: ntfs3: Unknown parameter 'windows_names'
Sep 14 20:54:43 reyyan-PC kernel: ntfs3: Unknown parameter 'windows_names'

Mirdarthos · 14 September 2022 15:25

OK, I honestly have no idea whatsoever and I’m afraid I have to be off.

So perhaps someone else can see something, because I certainly can’t. Sorry.

Reyyan · 14 September 2022 15:27

Oh well thats unfortunate. Anyway, Thanks for trying to help

Keruskerfuerst · 14 September 2022 15:56

You can certainly disable ModemManager.

udisks2.service

takes 203ms in my computer.

Reyyan · 14 September 2022 15:57

Will disabling modem manager do anything to my wifi connection? if not how do you do so?

Keruskerfuerst · 14 September 2022 16:01

It has nothing to do with WIFI.
You can disable it with systemctl disable ModemManager.service.
And then systemctl mask ModemManager.service.

Reyyan · 14 September 2022 16:07

Done

Keruskerfuerst · 14 September 2022 16:10

Same with lvm as with ModemManager.

Reyyan · 14 September 2022 16:20

I believe lvm is for managing logical partitions but i do have logical partitions on my hdd in which linux is installed into so will disabling it do any harm to it