Slow Startup Out of Nowhere

[raven wave]

I've been running mint cinnimon for a little under six months now, and this is one of the first issues i've encountered that I can't figure out. I was starting up / booting and reaching the log in screen at an average of about 20 to 30 seconds before, and now it takes roughly 1 minute and 45 seconds from the moment of pressing the power button. this has been going on for about a week or so now. I have no idea how to fix this.

systemd-analyze and systemd-analyze blame here:

[lone island]

what changed

[verbal charm]

Also screenshot the results of

systemd-analyze critical-chain

[raven wave]

no clue, honestly, and thats the problem i think. ive been kindof casually poking around trying to find anything but am simply too smooth brained to figure it out

[verbal charm]

There seems to be a big jump at systemd journal service - it is doing something for 1m 12 secs. So let's see into that. Show us the output of

systemctl status systemd-journald.service

[lone island]

Yeah the journal is probably the thing causing the long boot but why

What disk u have

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Also why does it say that it's running for a month and 7 days?

[raven wave]

i have no idea

[verbal charm]

Can you restart and repeat

systemd-analyze critical-chain
systemctl status systemd-journald.service
uptime

with screenshots

[raven wave]

restarting now, ill send the screenshots in just a sec

[raven wave]

oh woops hold on

[verbal charm]

It sure is stuck somehow.... Try

sudo systemctl restart systemd-journald.service

and then

systemctl status systemd-journald.service

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@verbal charm

forgot to reply so i pinged, myb

[verbal charm]

Ok, what does

journalctl --disk-usage

say?

[verbal charm]

Alright and these?

timedatectl status
timedatectl timesync-status

[verbal charm]

Run

sudo timedatectl set-local-rtc 0
timedatectl status

[verbal charm]

Ok... restart and do critical chain and systemctl status again

[verbal charm]

Please do

systemd-analyze blame > blame.txt
systemd-analyze critical-chain > critical-chain.txt
systemctl status systemd-journald.service --no-pager > journald-status.txt

and send those 3 files from home folder here

[verbal charm]

Ok, try running

sudo journalctl --vacuum-time=1m

then restarting and checking the critical chain

[lone island]

Bro why is ur journal so slow

Literally all the time is spent starting the journald service

[lone island]

@raven wave i think that is the default timeout time for the service probablyl

do these commands and post output

systemctl show -p TimeoutStartUSec systemd-journald.service
journalctl -b -u systemd-journald.service

also if you do sudo systemctl restart systemd-journald after that, does it still take over 1 minute to restart, or is it only happening on first start boot time

[raven wave]

it would appear so

[verbal charm]

After a restart do

dmesg -Hx > dmesg.txt

and send that file here

And also

inxi -pdxxx

[raven wave]

i will first thing in the morning when i wake up, its getting too late to work on rn. ill reply to ya when i post it!

i appreciate yall helping me figure this out btw! ill post that stuff in the morning

[verbal charm]

ok

[verbal charm]

You know you have a screenshot tool right? So you don't need to screenshot your entire screen all the time

Also, did you encrypt your home folder?

@raven wave

please run

lsusb -t

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yeah i know, i just got lazy sorry

[raven wave]

i have no idea :3

[verbal charm]

does

ls /sys/bus/usb/devices/1-10

show anything?

[verbal charm]

@raven wave Do you have anything connected to the front panel usb?

Ok, here's what you do:
In the terminal type

dmesg -w | grep --line-buffered 'usb 1-10'

Then disconnect and reconnect your usb devices 1 by 1, pausing for 5 secs before reconnecting.

Look which device triggers the line(s) with usb 1-10 in it

[raven wave]

oh i forgot i had my phone plugged in when i took that screeny hold on

heres what it shows when i unplug my phone

[raven wave]

all of them have usb 1-10 in them, and after going thru each usb device one at a time, nothing happens

unless im doing something wrong

[verbal charm]

Which device generated these lines

[raven wave]

thats how it looks before i unplug anything

[verbal charm]

Ok, so did any new lines appear past 72.9 point when you were connecting stuff?

[verbal charm]

Then just disconnect all usb devices except keyboard and mouse, restart, and check the boot time - it should be faster. Then connect them back 1 by 1 to see wich is causing the slowdown

[lone island]

i dont think that command will change unless you reboot, i was wanting to see if the restart took so long, which is looks like it doesnt

[raven wave]

boot time was almost the exact same, i think it was maybe a few seconds faster