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amsha

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Registered: 2017-06-02

Posts: 6

System hangs on boot at "Starting Flush Journal to persisten"

When I am booting into arch, occasionally the system hangs. Each time I have to force shutdown the PC and re start. When I login, the last 20 lines of the journalctl of the failed boot are as follows:

$ journalctl -b -1 | tail -20
Jun 02 14:17:48 amsha-arch kernel: usb 1-12: new high-speed USB device number 5 using xhci_hcd
Jun 02 14:17:48 amsha-arch kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver rtsx_usb
Jun 02 14:17:48 amsha-arch kernel: random: fast init done
Jun 02 14:17:48 amsha-arch kernel: EXT4-fs (sda7): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
Jun 02 14:17:48 amsha-arch kernel: random: crng init done
Jun 02 14:17:48 amsha-arch kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
Jun 02 14:17:48 amsha-arch systemd[1]: systemd 232 running in system mode. (+PAM -AUDIT -SELINUX -IMA -APPARMOR +SMACK -SYSVINIT +UTMP +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +GNUTLS +ACL +XZ +LZ4 +SECCOMP +BLKID +ELFUTILS +KMOD +IDN)
Jun 02 14:17:48 amsha-arch systemd[1]: Detected architecture x86-64.
Jun 02 14:17:48 amsha-arch systemd[1]: Set hostname to <amsha-arch>.
Jun 02 14:17:48 amsha-arch systemd[1]: Started Dispatch Password Requests to Console Directory Watch.
Jun 02 14:17:48 amsha-arch systemd[1]: Set up automount Arbitrary Executable File Formats File System Automount Point.
Jun 02 14:17:48 amsha-arch systemd[1]: Created slice System Slice.
Jun 02 14:17:48 amsha-arch systemd[1]: Listening on /dev/initctl Compatibility Named Pipe.
Jun 02 14:17:48 amsha-arch systemd[1]: Listening on LVM2 metadata daemon socket.
Jun 02 14:17:48 amsha-arch systemd[1]: Listening on Journal Socket.
Jun 02 14:17:48 amsha-arch systemd[1]: Starting Remount Root and Kernel File Systems...
Jun 02 14:17:48 amsha-arch kernel: EXT4-fs (sda7): re-mounted. Opts: data=ordered
Jun 02 14:17:48 amsha-arch systemd-journald[218]: Journal started
Jun 02 14:17:48 amsha-arch systemd-journald[218]: System journal (/var/log/journal/e97b409cd7b4453598f45d0b29ad9bed) is 968.3M, max 4.0G, 3.0G free.
Jun 02 14:17:48 amsha-arch systemd[1]: Starting Flush Journal to Persistent Storage...

Last edited by amsha (2017-07-06 19:49:15)

igory

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Registered: 2017-06-15

Posts: 3

Re: System hangs on boot at "Starting Flush Journal to persisten"

Hi,

I have the same issue with my XPS 9360. Also it fails to wake up from suspend from time to time. I believe the nature of these two issues is the same.
Did you manage to solve the issue?

Thanks.

amsha

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Registered: 2017-06-02

Posts: 6

Re: System hangs on boot at "Starting Flush Journal to persisten"

For now it seems it is solved. I tried the following: Intel Graphics: skylake support

I added

i915.enable_rc6=0

as a kernal parameter, and the problem seems to be solved for now. I hadn't rebooted enough times to say for sure. If this changes, I will post here.

amsha

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Registered: 2017-06-02

Posts: 6

Re: System hangs on boot at "Starting Flush Journal to persisten"

Scratch that, the problem prevails!!!