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thesi

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Registered: 2017-04-20

Posts: 2

GDM Hangs "Starting Flush Journal to Persistent Storage"

Hi,

I have an issue with my Arch install on my Thinkpad 440s. 4 out of 5 times Arch boots into GDM and then hangs. It doesn't fully crash but also doesn't accept any keyboard or mouse input. I can see the network status change on the GDM login screen but am not able to log in or switch to a different tty. The issue is not with GDM itself, I tried installing LDM with the same results.

I have had the issue since I first installed Arch 6 months ago and even though I extensively looked for a solution I never found an answer. I switched to the LTS kernel (currently linux-lts 4.9.22-1) but the results are the same there.

I would be really grateful for any help.

journalctl for a crash:

pr 19 18:03:32 wladimir systemd[1]: Detected architecture x86-64.
Apr 19 18:03:32 wladimir systemd[1]: Set hostname to <wladimir>.
Apr 19 18:03:32 wladimir systemd[1]: Created slice System Slice.
Apr 19 18:03:32 wladimir systemd[1]: Created slice system-systemd\x2dfsck.slice.
Apr 19 18:03:32 wladimir systemd[1]: Created slice system-getty.slice.
Apr 19 18:03:32 wladimir systemd[1]: Listening on udev Control Socket.
Apr 19 18:03:32 wladimir systemd[1]: Listening on Device-mapper event daemon FIFOs.
Apr 19 18:03:32 wladimir systemd[1]: Listening on Journal Socket.
Apr 19 18:03:32 wladimir systemd[1]: Starting Create list of required static device nodes for the current kernel...
Apr 19 18:03:32 wladimir kernel: usb 1-7: new full-speed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd
Apr 19 18:03:32 wladimir kernel: EXT4-fs (sda3): re-mounted. Opts: data=ordered
Apr 19 18:03:32 wladimir kernel: nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (65536 buckets, 262144 max)
Apr 19 18:03:32 wladimir systemd-journald[155]: Journal started
Apr 19 18:03:32 wladimir systemd-journald[155]: System journal (/var/log/journal/3ed9f11cfa244104aede688cb455f3dc) is 272.0M, max 256.0M, 0B free.
Apr 19 18:03:32 wladimir systemd[1]: Starting Flush Journal to Persistent Storage...

Relevant section when it doesn't crash

Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir systemd[1]: Detected architecture x86-64.               
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir systemd[1]: Set hostname to <wladimir>.                 
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir kernel: hub 3-1:1.0: USB hub found                      
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir kernel: hub 3-1:1.0: 8 ports detected                   
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir systemd[1]: Listening on udev Kernel Socket.            
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir systemd[1]: Listening on LVM2 metadata daemon socket.   
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir systemd[1]: Started Dispatch Password Requests to Console Directory Watch.
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir systemd[1]: Listening on udev Control Socket.            
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir systemd[1]: Listening on /dev/initctl Compatibility Named Pipe.
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir systemd[1]: Created slice User and Session Slice.       
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir systemd[1]: Set up automount Arbitrary Executable File Formats File System Automount Point.
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir kernel: EXT4-fs (sda3): re-mounted. Opts: data=ordered   
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir kernel: usb 1-7: new full-speed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir systemd-journald[143]: Journal started                  
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir systemd-journald[143]: System journal (/var/log/journal/3ed9f11cfa244104aede688cb455f3dc) is 272.0M, max 256.0M, 0B free.
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir systemd[1]: Starting Flush Journal to Persistent Storage...
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir kernel: nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (65536 buckets, 262144 max)
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir systemd-journald[143]: System journal (/var/log/journal/3ed9f11cfa244104aede688cb455f3dc) is 264.0M, max 256.0M, 0B free.
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir kernel: ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team   
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir systemd[1]: Started Flush Journal to Persistent Storage.
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir systemd[1]: Started udev Kernel Device Manager.         
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir kernel: input: Lid Switch as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0C0D:00/input/input2
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir kernel: ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]                          
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir kernel: input: Sleep Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0C0E:00/input/input3
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir kernel: ACPI: Sleep Button [SLPB]                       
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir kernel: input: Power Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input4
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir kernel: ACPI: Power Button [PWRF]                       
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir kernel: FUJITSU Extended Socket Network Device Driver - version 1.1 - Copyright (c) 2015 FUJITSU LIMITED
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir kernel: ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)     
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir kernel: wmi: Mapper loaded                              
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir kernel: tpm_tis 00:05: 1.2 TPM (device-id 0x0, rev-id 78)   
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir kernel: ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present)     
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir kernel: ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (off-line)                
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir kernel: Non-volatile memory driver v1.3                 
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir kernel: thermal LNXTHERM:00: registered as thermal_zone0
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir kernel: ACPI: Thermal Zone [THM0] (50 C)                    
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir kernel: thinkpad_acpi: ThinkPad ACPI Extras v0.25       
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir kernel: thinkpad_acpi: http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/           
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir kernel: thinkpad_acpi: ThinkPad BIOS GJET84WW (2.34 ), EC unknown
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir kernel: thinkpad_acpi: Lenovo ThinkPad T440s, model 20AQCTO1WW
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir kernel: thinkpad_acpi: radio switch found; radios are enabled
Apr 19 17:31:57 wladimir kernel: thinkpad_acpi: This ThinkPad has standard ACPI backlight brightness control, supported by the ACPI video driver

igory

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Registered: 2017-06-15

Posts: 3

Re: GDM Hangs "Starting Flush Journal to Persistent Storage"

Hi,

I have just the same issue with Dell XPS 9360. Also in addition to freezing upon booting it also freezes on waking up from suspend with apparently the same frequency.

Have you managed to solve it?

Thanks.

Last edited by igory (2017-07-04 19:26:40)

amsha

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Registered: 2017-06-02

Posts: 6

Re: GDM Hangs "Starting Flush Journal to Persistent Storage"

For now I added this kernal parameter, and it seems to be solved:

i915.enable_rc6=0

I had a similar problem: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 9#p1715259
This is where i found the solution: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … ke_support

Its only been a few hours since i did this. So if things change, I will update on it here.

amsha

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Registered: 2017-06-02

Posts: 6

Re: GDM Hangs "Starting Flush Journal to Persistent Storage"

Well, I ran into the problem again. While the above fix seems to have solved a few other freezes related to optirun, the above solution, does not entirely solve this problem it seems

amsha

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Registered: 2017-06-02

Posts: 6

Re: GDM Hangs "Starting Flush Journal to Persistent Storage"

For now I have boiled down the problem to either the NetworkManager or bumblebee. When those to services are disabled on startup, the problem does not exist. So far at least. When I log in I manually start the services when needed.