Taking long to open apps like dolphin

Not sure what I did but this is what is happening.
What is wrong here:

[demo@Manjaro ~]$ systemd-analyze blame
1min 4.992s systemd-hostnamed.service
     3.303s systemd-modules-load.service
      775ms linux-modules-cleanup.service
      689ms NetworkManager.service
      627ms home-demo-mnt-server-xmas_music.mount
      566ms dev-nvme0n1p11.device
      538ms user@1000.service
      487ms boot-efi.mount
      373ms tlp.service
      313ms upower.service
      259ms cups.service
      200ms systemd-udev-trigger.service
      161ms systemd-resolved.service
      150ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
      133ms udisks2.service
      118ms avahi-daemon.service
      106ms polkit.service
      104ms flatpak-system-helper.service
       99ms packagekit.service

Let me know what other info is needed.

I’m leaning to thinking the problem might have to do with my systemd mounts

Please post output of

cat /etc/hostname
cat /etc/hosts
[demo@Manjaro etc]$ cat /etc/hostname
Manjaro

My hosts file has allot of entries for ad blocking.

They where (likely) added to the tail end of the file
and would all point to “oblivion”.

Just the first few lines would probably suffice.

# Generated with hBlock 3.4.0 (https://github.com/hectorm/hblock)
# Blocked domains: 357590
# Date: Sun Nov 27 11:12:32 EST 2022

# BEGIN HEADER
127.0.0.1       localhost manjaro
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1             localhost manjaro
::1             ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0         ip6-localnet
ff00::0         ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1         ip6-allnodes
ff02::2         ip6-allrouters
ff02::3         ip6-allhosts
#192.168.68.15   dccathome-nas
192.168.68.20   www.dccathome.com
# END HEADER

# BEGIN BLOCKLIST

Is it something here:

[demo@Manjaro ~]$ sudo killall dolphin
[sudo] password for demo:
[demo@Manjaro ~]$ strace -c dolphin
% time     seconds  usecs/call     calls    errors syscall
------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- -----------------------
 25.76    0.218571           3     62494      2417 futex
 16.02    0.135932           3     38926     30358 openat
 10.68    0.090621           2     30420     27964 access
 10.62    0.090078           4     19922           write
  8.57    0.072715          11      6459           ppoll
  4.50    0.038225           5      7535      1435 statx
  3.69    0.031322           4      7816           read
  3.31    0.028080           6      4500        24 newfstatat
  3.22    0.027341       13670         2           waitid
  2.98    0.025259           2      9292           close
  1.60    0.013609           3      4528      4292 readlink
  1.48    0.012590           7      1648           mmap
  1.31    0.011133           2      4347           fstat
  0.64    0.005433           3      1680        13 ioctl
  0.57    0.004823          37       130           shmat
  0.54    0.004619           8       531           rt_sigprocmask
  0.45    0.003859          18       214           munmap
  0.45    0.003796           5       675         2 statfs
  0.40    0.003371           2      1226           epoll_ctl
  0.31    0.002664           5       498           sendmsg
  0.24    0.002054           3       528           getdents64
  0.23    0.001925           2       816           epoll_pwait2
  0.19    0.001623          12       130           shmdt
  0.19    0.001621         124        13           wait4
  0.17    0.001458           6       224           socket
  0.17    0.001454           1       785         2 lseek
  0.16    0.001375           6       205           connect
  0.14    0.001229           9       130           shmget
  0.14    0.001161           3       333       129 recvfrom
  0.12    0.001036           7       130           shmctl
  0.11    0.000968           4       204           sendto
  0.10    0.000878           3       231           fstatfs
  0.10    0.000819           2       350           mprotect
  0.08    0.000716           3       204           timerfd_create
  0.08    0.000711           3       205           epoll_create1
  0.07    0.000594           2       205           timerfd_settime
  0.06    0.000498          15        33           clone3
  0.05    0.000465           3       132           epoll_wait
  0.05    0.000456          11        40           readlinkat
  0.05    0.000438           9        45           unlink
  0.04    0.000371          13        28         1 linkat
  0.04    0.000312          24        13           vfork
  0.02    0.000205           3        52        52 mkdir
  0.02    0.000189           3        62           brk
  0.02    0.000179           8        22           faccessat2
  0.02    0.000154           4        34           pipe2
  0.02    0.000151           7        19           bind
  0.02    0.000138           1        89           fcntl
  0.01    0.000121           6        19         7 getxattr
  0.01    0.000116           2        42           sched_getaffinity
  0.01    0.000107           5        18           accept4
  0.01    0.000104           2        52           getuid
  0.01    0.000075           2        36           getpeername
  0.01    0.000074           2        37           getsockname
  0.01    0.000070           1        42           geteuid
  0.01    0.000066           1        45           getpid
  0.01    0.000058           4        12           inotify_add_watch
  0.01    0.000052           3        15           memfd_create
  0.01    0.000047           2        18           getcwd
  0.01    0.000043          21         2           clone
  0.00    0.000038           1        20           getsockopt
  0.00    0.000036           2        18           listen
  0.00    0.000035           1        18         9 recvmsg
  0.00    0.000027           1        14           getegid
  0.00    0.000025           6         4           stat
  0.00    0.000025           1        15           ftruncate
  0.00    0.000025           8         3           sched_setscheduler
  0.00    0.000024           3         7           prctl
  0.00    0.000021           1        14           getgid
  0.00    0.000019           4         4         1 setsockopt
  0.00    0.000015           7         2           pread64
  0.00    0.000015           7         2           sendfile
  0.00    0.000012          12         1           inotify_rm_watch
  0.00    0.000006           0        15           getrandom
  0.00    0.000004           4         1           arch_prctl
  0.00    0.000004           4         1           set_tid_address
  0.00    0.000004           4         1           set_robust_list
  0.00    0.000003           1         2           rt_sigaction
  0.00    0.000003           3         1           rseq
  0.00    0.000002           1         2           fchmod
  0.00    0.000002           2         1           inotify_init
  0.00    0.000002           1         2           inotify_init1
  0.00    0.000001           0         2         1 madvise
  0.00    0.000001           0         3           fdatasync
  0.00    0.000001           1         1           sched_get_priority_max
  0.00    0.000001           1         1           sched_get_priority_min
  0.00    0.000001           0         3           gettid
  0.00    0.000001           1         1         1 copy_file_range
  0.00    0.000000           0         1           execve
  0.00    0.000000           0         2           kill
  0.00    0.000000           0         1           uname
  0.00    0.000000           0         1           flock
  0.00    0.000000           0         1           rename
  0.00    0.000000           0         1           prlimit64
------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- -----------------------
100.00    0.848505           4    208609     66708 total

I installed thunar and it opens instantly

… and Dolphin doesn’t?

Your second terminal output shows … something,
but certainly not that (delay).

What are “apps like dolphin”?

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Open dolphin in the CLI, and report back what you see.

Also give us the output from inxi -zv8 You should have done this right from the start.

as asked by..

Yes what are they?

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Sorry it looks like it is just Dolphin. I thought other ones were causing issues but they are not.
Here is where you guys don’t like how my system is set up.
If after me posting this you don’t want to help , fine. I’ll figure it out myself

[demo@Manjaro ~]$ inxi -zv8
System:
  Kernel: 6.12.73-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.2.1
    clocksource: tsc avail: acpi_pm
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.12-x86_64
    root=UUID=45ca132d-4a37-4dc3-afa0-be2e80d6a4a2 rw quiet
    udev.log_priority=3 libata.noacpi=1 kvm.enable_virt_at_load=0
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.6.0 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.23.0
    wm: kwin_wayland with: cairo-dock tools: xscreensaver,xscreensaver-systemd
    vt: 2 dm: N/A Distro: Manjaro base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Convertible System: HP product: HP Spectre x360 Convertible 15-df1xxx
    v: N/A serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 31
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 863F v: 54.24 serial: <superuser required>
    part-nu: 7UT64UA#ABA uuid: <superuser required> Firmware: UEFI vendor: AMI
    v: F.32 date: 12/08/2023
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 79.1 Wh (87.6%) condition: 90.2/90.2 Wh (100%)
    volts: 13.07 min: 11.55 model: HP Primary type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
    charging: status: charging cycles: 64
Memory:
  System RAM: total: 16 GiB available: 15.26 GiB used: 6.82 GiB (44.7%)
  Message: For most reliable report, use superuser + dmidecode.
  Array-1: capacity: 32 GiB slots: 2 modules: 2 EC: None
    max-module-size: 16 GiB note: est.
  Device-1: Bottom - Slot 1 (left) type: DDR4 detail: synchronous
    size: 8 GiB speed: 2667 MT/s volts: note: check curr: 1 min: 1 max: 1
    width (bits): data: 64 total: 64 manufacturer: Samsung
    part-no: M471A1K43CB1-CTD serial: <filter>
  Device-2: Bottom - Slot 2 (right) type: DDR4 detail: synchronous
    size: 8 GiB speed: 2667 MT/s volts: note: check curr: 1 min: 1 max: 1
    width (bits): data: 64 total: 64 manufacturer: Samsung
    part-no: M471A1K43CB1-CTD serial: <filter>
PCI Slots:
  Permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i7-10510U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Comet/Whiskey Lake note: check gen: core 10 level: v3 note: check
    built: 2018 process: Intel 14nm family: 6 model-id: 0x8E (142)
    stepping: 0xC (12) microcode: 0x100
  Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 4 cores: 4 threads: 8 tpc: 2
    smt: enabled cache: L1: 256 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB
    desc: 4x256 KiB L3: 8 MiB desc: 1x8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1600 min/max: 400/1800 scaling: driver: intel_pstate
    governor: performance cores: 1: 1600 2: 1600 3: 1600 4: 1600 5: 1600 6: 1600
    7: 1600 8: 1600 bogomips: 36812
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat
    arch_capabilities arch_perfmon art avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush
    clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64
    dtherm dts epb ept ept_ad erms est f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu
    fsgsbase fxsr ht hwp hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs
    ibrs_enhanced ida intel_pt invpcid lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx
    monitor movbe mpx msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq
    pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pts rdrand rdseed rdtscp
    rep_good sdbg sep sgx smap smep ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
    stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx
    vnmi vpid x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt xsaves xtopology xtpr
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling mitigation: Microcode
  Type: indirect_target_selection mitigation: Aligned branch/return thunks
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed mitigation: Enhanced IBRS
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow 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: Enhanced / Automatic IBRS; IBPB:
    conditional; PBRSB-eIBRS: SW sequence; BHI: SW loop, KVM: SW loop
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
  Type: tsa status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
  Type: vmscape mitigation: IBPB before exit to userspace
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel CometLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5 process: Intel 14nm built: 2016-20
    ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,DP-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:9b41
    class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP108M [GeForce MX250] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: nvidia v: 580.126.09 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm
    non-free: 550-580.xx+ status: current (as of 2025-11; EOL~2026-12-xx)
    arch: Pascal code: GP10x process: TSMC 16nm built: 2016-2021 pcie: gen: 1
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 4 link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s bus-ID: 3b:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:1d13 class-ID: 0302
  Device-3: Chicony HP Wide Vision FHD Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB
    rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-5:3 chip-ID: 04f2:b67b
    class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.21 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.9
    compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia dri: iris
    gpu: i915 display-ID: 0
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: AU Optronics 0x30eb built: 2017 res:
    mode: 3840x2160 hz: 60 scale: 170% (1.7) to: 2259x1271 dpi: 284 gamma: 1.2
    chroma: red: x: 0.647 y: 0.337 green: x: 0.310 y: 0.608 blue: x: 0.153
    y: 0.047 white: x: 0.314 y: 0.329 size: 344x193mm (13.54x7.6")
    diag: 394mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9 modes: 3840x2160
  EDID-Warnings: 1: parse_edid: unknown flag 2
  API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris drv: nvidia platforms: device: 0
    drv: nvidia device: 2 drv: iris device: 3 drv: swrast gbm: drv: nvidia
    surfaceless: drv: nvidia wayland: drv: iris x11: drv: iris
    inactive: device-1
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.3.5-arch1.1
    glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (CML GT2)
    device-ID: 8086:9b41 memory: 14.9 GiB unified: yes display-ID: :0.0
  API: Vulkan v: 1.4.341 layers: 9 device: 0 type: integrated-gpu name: Intel
    UHD Graphics (CML GT2) driver: mesa intel v: 25.3.5-arch1.1
    device-ID: 8086:9b41 surfaces: N/A device: 1 type: discrete-gpu
    name: NVIDIA GeForce MX250 driver: nvidia v: 580.126.09
    device-ID: 10de:1d13 surfaces: N/A
  Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
    de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi
    wl: wayland-info x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH-LP cAVS vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-cnl alternate: snd_hda_intel, snd_soc_avs,
    snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:02c8 class-ID: 0401
  API: ALSA v: k6.12.73-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
    type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: sndiod v: N/A status: off tools: aucat,midicat,sndioctl
  Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
  Server-3: PipeWire v: 1.4.10 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH-LP CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
    bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:02f0 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
    broadcast: <filter>
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
  Info: services: NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
  WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 1.1
    speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-1:2 chip-ID: 0bda:8771
    class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci1 rfk-id: 3 state: up address: N/A
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 331.55 GiB (35.6%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung
    model: SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
    logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter>
    fw-rev: 2B2QEXM7 temp: 41.9 C scheme: GPT
  Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 163 GiB size: 160.13 GiB (98.24%) used: 79.01 GiB (49.3%)
    fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p11 maj-min: 259:11 label: Manjaro
    uuid: 45ca132d-4a37-4dc3-afa0-be2e80d6a4a2
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 499 MiB size: 498 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 207.3 MiB (41.6%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
    label: N/A uuid: 385A-127E
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 310 GiB size: 304.07 GiB (98.09%)
    used: 252.34 GiB (83.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p8 maj-min: 259:8
    label: Data for Manjaro uuid: 1f7a0eb8-f3e9-46ef-a88a-e3ae0ed0233d
  ID-4: /home/<filter>/mnt/server/diskstationmusic raw-size: N/A
    size: 7.2 TiB used: 178.84 GiB (2.4%) fs: cifs dev: /dev/Music
  ID-5: /home/<filter>/mnt/server/music raw-size: N/A size: 2.72 TiB
    used: 1.84 TiB (67.4%) fs: cifs dev: /dev/Music
  ID-6: /home/<filter>/mnt/server/xmas_music raw-size: N/A size: 2.72 TiB
    used: 1.84 TiB (67.4%) fs: cifs dev: /dev/Christmas
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 16 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p13 maj-min: 259:13 label: N/A
    uuid: 24f2c822-affd-40ce-a183-d76c98c31df5
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 size: 529 MiB fs: <superuser required>
    label: N/A uuid: N/A
  ID-2: /dev/nvme0n1p10 maj-min: 259:10 size: 2 GiB fs: ext4 label: N/A
    uuid: 7b881044-e7f4-4adb-8f7c-03a4bf158c1a
  ID-3: /dev/nvme0n1p12 maj-min: 259:12 size: 90 GiB fs: ext4 label: N/A
    uuid: bf3d30bc-88b6-4660-914b-1f3f7b5d4334
  ID-4: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 size: 16 MiB fs: <superuser required>
    label: N/A uuid: N/A
  ID-5: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4 size: 267.86 GiB fs: ntfs label: N/A
    uuid: EAEA681CEA67E375
  ID-6: /dev/nvme0n1p5 maj-min: 259:5 size: 1.12 GiB fs: ntfs label: N/A
    uuid: FAECC37EECC33423
  ID-7: /dev/nvme0n1p6 maj-min: 259:6 size: 961 MiB fs: ntfs label: N/A
    uuid: 863E127D3E126709
  ID-8: /dev/nvme0n1p7 maj-min: 259:7 size: 3 MiB fs: ufs label: N/A
    uuid: 6354a81a1b0b8929
  ID-9: /dev/nvme0n1p9 maj-min: 259:9 size: 79.57 GiB fs: ext4
    label: Arch Linux uuid: 91f4ccdf-2376-48ab-a390-91ea0bc4b02a
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 12 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
    class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-1:2 info: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: bluetooth
    driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s) lanes: 1
    mode: 1.1 power: 500mA chip-ID: 0bda:8771 class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
  Device-2: 1-5:3 info: Chicony HP Wide Vision FHD Camera type: video
    driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s)
    lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 power: 500mA chip-ID: 04f2:b67b class-ID: 0e02
    serial: <filter>
  Device-3: 1-9:4 info: Synaptics type: <vendor specific> driver: N/A
    interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 1.1
    power: 100mA chip-ID: 06cb:00bb class-ID: ff00 serial: <filter>
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 6 rev: 3.1
    speed: 10 Gb/s (1.16 GiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-2x1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
    class-ID: 0900
  Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 2 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
    class-ID: 0900
  Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1
    speed: 10 Gb/s (1.16 GiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-2x1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
    class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
  Src: /sys System Temperatures: cpu: 76.0 C pch: 74.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Repos:
  Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 2079 libs: 444 tools: pamac,trizen,yay
    pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
  Active pacman repo servers in: /etc/pacman.d/chaotic-mirrorlist
    1: https://geo-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    2: https://cdn-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    3: https://br-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    4: https://ca-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    5: https://cl-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    6: https://cl-2-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    7: https://de-2-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    8: https://de-4-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    9: https://gb-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    10: https://gr-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    11: https://in-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    12: https://in-2-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    13: https://in-4-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    14: https://sg-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    15: https://kr-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    16: https://es-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    17: https://es-2-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    18: https://us-mi-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    19: https://us-ut-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
    20: https://vn-mirror.chaotic.cx/$repo/$arch
  Active pacman repo servers in: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
    1: https://codingflyboy.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/unstable/$repo/$arch
    2: https://ziply.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/unstable/$repo/$arch
    3: https://irltoolkit.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/unstable/$repo/$arch
    4: https://opencolo.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/unstable/$repo/$arch
    5: https://southfront.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/unstable/$repo/$arch
    6: https://nocix.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/unstable/$repo/$arch
    7: https://volico.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/unstable/$repo/$arch
    8: https://cofractal-ewr.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/unstable/$repo/$arch
    9: https://nnenix.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/unstable/$repo/$arch
    10: https://forksystems.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/unstable/$repo/$arch
    11: https://repo.ialab.dsu.edu/manjaro/unstable/$repo/$arch
    12: https://ohioix.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/unstable/$repo/$arch
Processes:
  CPU top: 5 of 431
  1: cpu: 22.2% command: tlp started-by: sh pid: 88741 mem: 4.56 MiB (0.0%)
  2: cpu: 18.4% command: vivaldi-bin pid: 28746 mem: 283.3 MiB (1.8%)
  3: cpu: 6.7% command: vivaldi-bin pid: 49436 mem: 289.6 MiB (1.8%)
  4: cpu: 4.4% command: vivaldi-bin pid: 87278 mem: 120.6 MiB (0.7%)
  5: cpu: 2.7% command: vivaldi-bin pid: 14792 mem: 467.5 MiB (2.9%)
  Memory top: 5 of 431
  1: mem: 970.5 MiB (6.2%) command: clamd pid: 1022 cpu: 0.2%
  2: mem: 849.9 MiB (5.4%) command: vivaldi-bin pid: 14654 cpu: 1.4%
  3: mem: 467.5 MiB (2.9%) command: vivaldi-bin pid: 14792 cpu: 2.7%
  4: mem: 387.0 MiB (2.4%) command: plasmashell pid: 9883 cpu: 0.3%
  5: mem: 375.8 MiB (2.4%) command: kwin_wayland pid: 9603 cpu: 1.3%
Info:
  Processes: 431 Power: uptime: 1h 14m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: s2idle
    wakeups: 1 fails: 2 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot, suspend,
    test_resume image: 6.07 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,tlp,upowerd
    Init: systemd v: 259 default: graphical tool: systemctl
  Compilers: clang: 21.1.8 gcc: 15.2.1 Shell: Bash v: 5.3.9
    running-in: alacritty inxi: 3.3.40

That is not the point at all - and no one said anything like it.
… calm down a bit? :wink:

Perhaps:
disable
and reverse
any changes to your hosts file made by:

temporarily
… just to eliminate this as a cause …

You could probably survive a few minutes or hours with just the ublock origin extension to your browser - instead of this :wink:
(I have never ever seen any ads on YT, for example … with this extension active)

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I cleared out all the blocked sites and rebooted.
Made no difference.

Thanks for understanding .
I’ve been reprimanded here so many times for not doing something right or not responding as expected so I am a little defensive.

Yes.

But where is the output from running dolphin in the CLI?

You should have something similar to this.

QProcess: Destroyed while process ("git") is still running.
libKExiv2: Cannot load metadata from file   (Error # Failed to read input data )
qt.gui.imageio.jpeg: Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x4e 0x6f
qt.gui.imageio.jpeg: Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x4e 0x6f
kf.coreaddons: "Could not load plugin from /usr/lib/qt6/plugins/kf6/thumbcreator/appimagethumbnail.so: Cannot load library /usr/lib/qt6/plugins/kf6/thumbcreator/appimagethumbnail.so: libappimage.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
GPL Ghostscript 10.06.0: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

All I see is this and dolphin launches after a little over a minute.
I will time it to be exact.

[demo@Manjaro ~]$ dolphin

I’m not sure if the systemd-hostname.service is the cause of the issue, as it only provides your machine’s host name. It doesn’t appear to have any real relationship to the /etc/hosts file:

This looks (to me) like it could be the cause of dolphin being slow to open:

Does dolphin open fast if the Windows shares are removed or disabled? I’m afraid that I have no experience with cifs, but could dolphin be trying to mount and read the shared drives during start-up, and that be the cause of the issue? If the 7.2TB cifs drive is having to spin up, or the network share is having to be negotiated, when you start dolphin, that could slow things down.

One way to test could be to start dolphin a first time, and once its slow start-up has completed, close dolphin. Then, relaunch dolphin and see if it starts quickly now that the shared drives/partitions are mounted.

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I was thinking it might be file system related.

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Ok I timed it.
It takes 1:30 to launch and even 1:30 to change from home to Documents.

Thunar is not having any issues.
It must be some Dolphin setting.

See @scotty65 's reply above. Make those tests, then report back.

The very easiest thing to do here now is:
create a new user account - it’ll only inherit the basic defaults from /etc/skel/…
and see whether the behavior is the same there.

Just a comparison.

See where that points to …

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So do I stop the service or disable it?

What tests have you made. Did you do as @scotty65 said. Did you shut dolphin down then immediately restart. Did you start another instance of dolphin, after the first was loaded.

Yes shutting down the service would help.

There is also @anon33601770 's option. But what have you done so far?

I have done everything that has been suggested.
I did close are relaunch and still the same issue.

I just went into my test user that is a new user and dolphin starts immediately.
It didn’t even connect to my wifi. I did and connected to my network drives and they started immediately also.
I will now shutdown that service and see what happens.
Thanks

It says this . If I reboot I assume it will just restart.

[demo@Manjaro ~]$ sudo systemctl stop systemd-hostnamed.service
[sudo] password for demo:
Stopping 'systemd-hostnamed.service', but its triggering units are still active:
systemd-hostnamed.socket

I will disable it and reboot and see what happens.

Not sure what this means:

[demo@Manjaro ~]$ sudo systemctl disable systemd-hostnamed.service
Disabling 'systemd-hostnamed.service', but its triggering units are still active:
systemd-hostnamed.socket
The unit files have no installation config (WantedBy=, RequiredBy=, UpheldBy=,
Also=, or Alias= settings in the [Install] section, and DefaultInstance= for
template units). This means they are not meant to be enabled or disabled using systemctl.

Possible reasons for having these kinds of units are:
• A unit may be statically enabled by being symlinked from another unit's
  .wants/, .requires/, or .upholds/ directory.
• A unit's purpose may be to act as a helper for some other unit which has
  a requirement dependency on it.
• A unit may be started when needed via activation (socket, path, timer,
  D-Bus, udev, scripted systemctl call, ...).
• In case of template units, the unit is meant to be enabled with some
  instance name specified.