Is this the right place to ask for help? Or is there another place? Anyways, feel free to delete this post if i’m in the wrong spot.

I use Pop OS on an Asus. Something has happened where i either have a 10 min plus boot time, or it doesn’t boot at all. I have reinstalled Pop OS twice (and used recovery mode) and even took it into a computer shop to see if there was something wrong with my hardware (there isn’t). When I first do a new install it will restart fine, but then it’ll be the next day when it will either take over 8 minutes to load, or it will be stuck on boot.

Right now it is stuck on boot. I can get into a live usb stick just fine. I have done systemanalyze blame, and it didn’t give me any helpful information. I have the same issue even if I try to press space bar and boot into an old kernel.

I should note that my computer has encryption enabled.

Any help would be awesome.

All hail the other linux noobs out there!

  • just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Hit ESC during boot and watch the boot logs to see what’s hanging. Some systemd service is taking awhile and doesn’t have a sensible timeout. Probably network.

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      4 months ago

      i was able to get into my old kernel and it says in the journal “failed to start application launched by gnome session binary” and then when i went into recovery mode it showed something about caspermdcheck service failing

  • sludgewife@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    can you post journalctl -b0 and systemd-analyze blame results from after a successful boot. i have broken and fixed my own systems countless ways so maybe i’ll spot something

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        4 months ago

        thanks, can you please give me the output of

        journalctl -b0 -u systemd-modules-load
        

        i’m curious why it’s taking 30s. maybe the other two services as well

        the dmesg you posted is very truncated, just like a screenful of info. you can usually pipe command output to curl with these pastebin sites. i understand if you’re concerned about sensitive info in dmesg though

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          j@pop-os:~$ journalctl -b0 -u systemd-modules-load

          Dec 07 12:45:50 pop-os systemd-modules-load[614]: Inserted module ‘lp’ Dec 07 12:45:50 pop-os systemd-modules-load[614]: Inserted module ‘ppdev’ Dec 07 12:45:50 pop-os systemd-modules-load[614]: Inserted module ‘parport_pc’ Dec 07 12:45:50 pop-os systemd-modules-load[614]: Inserted module ‘msr’ Dec 07 12:45:50 pop-os systemd-modules-load[614]: Inserted module ‘kyber_iosched’ Dec 07 12:45:50 pop-os systemd[1]: Finished Load Kernel Modules.

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        4 months ago

        I am currently on this computer but booted into an old kernal which was still slow to load but eventually got me on

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    4 months ago

    Check your disk usage with df -h

    When my machine gets weird it’s always out of disk space.