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Dear All,
Have long standing Arch system (Ivy Bridge, intel graphics) with normal boot times of less than 30 seconds. Since upgrading to KDE 4.12 start up has slowed to more than 5 minutes.
KDE blue logo (cog and K) start very quickly, and then the screen fades to black with mouse cursor. It stays like this for at least 5 minutes before finally desktop appears.
During this time I can get to a terminal (alt-F1) and have full access to everything. Once desktop is up, the system is fully responsive.
/var/log/messages.log
Jan 5 13:48:12 mikes_machine slim[514]: plasma-desktop(878)/libplasma Plasma::isPluginVersionCompatible: unversioned plugin detected, may result in instability
Jan 5 13:48:12 mikes_machine slim[514]: plasma-desktop(878): ""geometry" - conversion of "72,3,0,32" to QRectF failed"
Jan 5 13:48:12 mikes_machine slim[514]: plasma-desktop(878): ""geometry" - conversion of "72,3,0,32" to QRectF failed"
Jan 5 13:48:12 mikes_machine slim[514]: plasma-desktop(878): ""geometry" - conversion of "72,3,0,32" to QRectF failed"
Jan 5 13:48:12 mikes_machine slim[514]: plasma-desktop(878): ""geometry" - conversion of "72,3,0,32" to QRectF failed"
Jan 5 13:48:12 mikes_machine slim[514]: plasma-desktop(878): ""geometry" - conversion of "72,3,0,32" to QRectF failed"
Jan 5 13:48:12 mikes_machine slim[514]: plasma-desktop(878)/libplasma Plasma::isPluginVersionCompatible: unversioned plugin detected, may result in instability
Jan 5 13:48:12 mikes_machine systemd[1]: Started Profile-sync-daemon.
Jan 5 13:48:12 mikes_machine systemd[1]: Starting Multi-User System.
Jan 5 13:48:12 mikes_machine systemd[1]: Reached target Multi-User System.
Jan 5 13:48:12 mikes_machine systemd[1]: Starting Timed Profile-resync...
Jan 5 13:48:12 mikes_machine slim[514]: Object::connect: No such signal QDBusAbstractInterface::StateChanged(uint)
Jan 5 13:48:12 mikes_machine systemd[1]: Started Timed Profile-resync.
Jan 5 13:48:12 mikes_machine systemd[1]: Starting Graphical Interface.
Jan 5 13:48:12 mikes_machine systemd[1]: Reached target Graphical Interface.
Jan 5 13:48:12 mikes_machine systemd[1]: Startup finished in 2.228s (kernel) + 12.927s (userspace) = 15.156s.
Jan 5 13:48:12 mikes_machine avahi-daemon[396]: Registering new address record for fe80::52e5:49ff:feec:a369 on eth0.*.
Jan 5 13:48:12 mikes_machine slim[514]: plasma-desktop(878)/libplasma Plasma::isPluginVersionCompatible: unversioned plugin detected, may result in instability
Jan 5 13:48:12 mikes_machine slim[514]: Object::connect: No such signal org::freedesktop::UPower::DeviceAdded(QDBusObjectPath)
Jan 5 13:48:12 mikes_machine slim[514]: Object::connect: No such signal org::freedesktop::UPower::DeviceRemoved(QDBusObjectPath)
Jan 5 13:48:12 mikes_machine slim[514]: plasma-desktop(878)/libplasma Plasma::isPluginVersionCompatible: unversioned plugin detected, may result in instability
Jan 5 13:48:12 mikes_machine slim[514]: plasma-desktop(878)/libplasma Plasma::isPluginVersionCompatible: unversioned plugin detected, may result in instability
Jan 5 13:48:12 mikes_machine slim[514]: plasma-desktop(878) KDirWatch::removeFile: doesn't know ""
Jan 5 13:48:13 mikes_machine dhcpcd[1021]: version 6.1.0 starting
Jan 5 13:48:13 mikes_machine dhcpcd[1021]: eth0: soliciting an IPv6 router
Jan 5 13:48:13 mikes_machine dhcpcd[1021]: eth0: rebinding lease of 192.168.1.59
Jan 5 13:48:17 mikes_machine dhcpcd[1021]: eth0: leased 192.168.1.59 for 86400 seconds
Jan 5 13:48:17 mikes_machine dhcpcd[1021]: eth0: adding host route to 192.168.1.59 via 127.0.0.1
Jan 5 13:48:17 mikes_machine dhcpcd[1021]: eth0: adding route to 192.168.1.0/24
Jan 5 13:48:17 mikes_machine avahi-daemon[396]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 192.168.1.59.
Jan 5 13:48:17 mikes_machine dhcpcd[1021]: eth0: adding default route via 192.168.1.254
Jan 5 13:48:17 mikes_machine avahi-daemon[396]: New relevant interface eth0.IPv4 for mDNS.
Jan 5 13:48:17 mikes_machine avahi-daemon[396]: Registering new address record for 192.168.1.59 on eth0.IPv4.
Jan 5 13:48:17 mikes_machine dhcpcd[1021]: forked to background, child pid 1052
Jan 5 13:48:25 mikes_machine dhcpcd[1052]: eth0: no IPv6 Routers available
Jan 5 13:55:58 mikes_machine slim[514]: plasma-desktop(878): ""geometry" - conversion of "72,3,0,32" to QRectF failed"
Jan 5 13:55:58 mikes_machine slim[514]: ========================> 3 0
Jan 5 13:55:58 mikes_machine slim[514]: plasma-desktop(878)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig:
Jan 5 13:55:58 mikes_machine slim[514]: static bool QDeclarativeMetaType::isModule(const QByteArray&, int, int) Qt 4.7 import detected; please note that Qt 4.7 is directly reusable as QtQuick 1.x with no code c
hanges. Continuing, but startup time will be slower.
Jan 5 13:55:58 mikes_machine slim[514]: plasma-desktop(878)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig:
Jan 5 13:55:58 mikes_machine dbus-daemon[406]: dbus[406]: [system] Activating service name='org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper' (using servicehelper)
Jan 5 13:55:58 mikes_machine dbus[406]: [system] Activating service name='org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper' (using servicehelper)
Jan 5 13:55:58 mikes_machine org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper: QDBusConnection: system D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
Jan 5 13:55:58 mikes_machine dbus[406]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.kde.powerdevil.backlighthelper'dmesg
[ 3.852310] sd 4:0:0:3: [sdf] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 9.727640] systemd-journald[140]: Failed to read ACL on /var/log/journal/0f8e452456fdb7fc61ef93bd00000367/user-1000.journal, ignoring: Operation not supported
[ 12.031551] atl1c 0000:04:00.0: irq 44 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 12.032046] atl1c 0000:04:00.0: atl1c: eth0 NIC Link is Up<1000 Mbps Full Duplex>
[ 14.084091] atl1c 0000:04:00.0: irq 44 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 14.084227] atl1c 0000:04:00.0: atl1c: eth0 NIC Link is Up<1000 Mbps Full Duplex>
[ 14.112655] atl1c 0000:04:00.0: irq 44 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 14.112792] atl1c 0000:04:00.0: atl1c: eth0 NIC Link is Up<1000 Mbps Full Duplex>
[ 485.461368] fuse init (API version 7.22)From /var/log/messages above you can see that systemd startup finished in 15 seconds, but desktop took 7 minutes to appear! The only odd thing in dmesg is delayed fuse - but I wonder if this is secondary to another problem.
I have tried disabling upower and ntpd with no change in startup.
I am not trying to get a superfast boot, but obviously something has changed and 7 min to boot is a little bit excessive.
Any help would be appreciated.
Last edited by poppyfields (2014-01-05 17:54:29)
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Not found much help on the internet specific to this problem, but interestingly many people had problems with pulseaudio (which I did not have installed - so not helpfull). Others found issues in autostart folders. I only had dropbox and on restart was quick, so did not feel that was the problem. I decided to stop all widgets - and it worked - boot in < 30 seconds. Have not tested which widgets might be guilty - but most likely a calendar widget and a file monitoring widget. So if you ever have this problem consider removing widgets!
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