I’ve been using Manjaro for almost three months now, worked just like breeze 
. But after the latest update, a peculiar thing happened, after I boot and login, the screen is blank with just a cursor for about 5-10 seconds, then the desktop appears,. Also the startup time has significantly increased, it is now 45-50 seconds while previously it was shown to be 30-32 seconds (using systemd-analyze). If I run systemd-analyze blame, polkit.service is taking 13-15 seconds !! (it was 2-4 seconds before the update), and the network-wait-online.service is also 5-7 seconds. Please help.
[My specs: HP 250 G6 Laptop,
Dual boot with Windows 10 (330 GB for Manjaro),
CPU - Intel i3 6006U,
RAM - 8 GB,
Storage - 1 TB HDD 5400 rpm]
P.S - Hearing the advice of @j8a , I’m attaching the output of inxi -Fazy
System info -
System:
Kernel: 5.10.36-2-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64
root=UUID=baf56f98-8eae-4c56-a623-afb03ab6fdd7 rw apparmor=1
security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
bootsplash.bootfile=bootsplash-themes/manjaro/bootsplash
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.21.5 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM
Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP 250 G6 Notebook PC
v: Type1ProductConfigId serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter>
Mobo: HP model: 8328 v: 23.70 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: F.52
date: 03/04/2019
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 39.7 Wh (97.8%) condition: 40.6/41.6 Wh (97.5%)
volts: 16.4 min: 14.6 model: Hewlett-Packard PABAS0241231 type: Li-ion
serial: <filter> status: Discharging
CPU:
Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i3-6006U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Skylake family: 6 model-id: 4E (78) stepping: 3 microcode: E2 cache:
L2: 3 MiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
bogomips: 16006
Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 400/2000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 767
4: 800
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 status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:1916 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Sunplus Innovation HP TrueVision HD Camera type: USB
driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-5:3 chip-ID: 1bcf:2c9b class-ID: 0e02
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: kwin_x11 driver:
loaded: intel unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa display-ID: :0
screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.2x8.0")
s-diag: 414mm (16.3")
Monitor-1: eDP1 res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 102 size: 340x190mm (13.4x7.5")
diag: 389mm (15.3")
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 520 (SKL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.0.3
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
chip-ID: 8086:9d70 class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.36-2-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: 0.3.27 running: no
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168NGW [Stone Peak] driver: iwlwifi
v: kernel port: 3000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:24fb class-ID: 0280
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: virbr0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 3168 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
bus-ID: 1-4:2 chip-ID: 8087:0aa7 class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: see --recommends
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 106.74 GiB (11.5%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD10JPVX-60JC3T1
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> rev: 1A02 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 330.46 GiB size: 328.34 GiB (99.36%)
used: 106.74 GiB (32.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda8 maj-min: 8:8
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 512 MiB size: 511 MiB (99.80%)
used: 340 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda7 maj-min: 8:7
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 36.5 C mobo: 29.8 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 208 Uptime: 4m wakeups: 1 Memory: 7.69 GiB used: 1.37 GiB (17.8%)
Init: systemd v: 247 tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: 1465
pacman: 1462 lib: 411 flatpak: 0 snap: 3 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8
running-in: yakuake inxi: 3.3.04 ```