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cnu

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Registered: 2019-10-18

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[SOLVED] Gnome Login Screen takes too long to show up

Yesterday I installed Archlinux using the ISO (2019.10.01) following the installation guide. I installed Gnome and GDM and it was working fine.
I have an Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 and installed the nvidia-beta package and all the other relevant packages in the wiki.

But whenever I boot, it takes a long time (more than 2 minutes) for the Gnome login screen to show up. If I remove the nvidia drivers and reboot, it boots normally in a few tens of seconds.

Note: I tried with alternating both the nvidia and nvidia-beta packages to see if it solves it, but both packages installing the same version 435.21 and have the same problem

Here's the output of uname -a

Linux archtop 5.3.6-arch1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Oct 11 18:28:05 UTC 2019 x86_64 GNU/Linux

After searching through the forums and posts and not finding any luck, I ran journalctl -b.

Here's the specific section where I see the long delay.

Oct 18 09:40:12 archtop systemd-networkd[330]: enp0s31f6: DHCPv4 address 192.168.1.8/24 via 192.168.1.1
Oct 18 09:40:13 archtop systemd-networkd[330]: enp0s31f6: Gained IPv6LL
Oct 18 09:40:16 archtop systemd-networkd[330]: enp0s31f6: Configured
Oct 18 09:41:40 archtop systemd[516]: gnome-session-manager@gnome-login.service: State 'stop-sigterm' timed out. Killing.
Oct 18 09:41:40 archtop systemd[516]: gnome-session-manager@gnome-login.service: Killing process 540 (gnome-session-b) with signal SIGKILL.
Oct 18 09:41:40 archtop systemd[516]: gnome-session-manager@gnome-login.service: Killing process 542 (gdbus) with signal SIGKILL.
Oct 18 09:41:40 archtop systemd[516]: gnome-session-manager@gnome-login.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=9/KILL
Oct 18 09:41:40 archtop systemd[516]: gnome-session-manager@gnome-login.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
Oct 18 09:41:40 archtop systemd[516]: Stopped GNOME Session Manager (session: gnome-login).
Oct 18 09:41:40 archtop systemd[516]: gnome-session-manager@gnome-login.service: Triggering OnFailure= dependencies.
Oct 18 09:41:40 archtop systemd[516]: Stopped target Tasks to be run before GNOME Session starts.
Oct 18 09:41:40 archtop systemd[516]: Stopped target Session services which should run early before the graphical session is brought up.
Oct 18 09:41:40 archtop systemd[516]: Reached target Shutdown running GNOME Session.
Oct 18 09:41:40 archtop systemd[516]: Stopping Monitor Session leader for GNOME Session...
Oct 18 09:41:40 archtop systemd[516]: Starting Restart DBus after GNOME Session shutdown...
Oct 18 09:41:40 archtop systemd[516]: gnome-session-monitor.service: Succeeded.
Oct 18 09:41:40 archtop systemd[516]: Stopped Monitor Session leader for GNOME Session.
Oct 18 09:41:40 archtop systemd[516]: Started Restart DBus after GNOME Session shutdown.
Oct 18 09:41:40 archtop gdm[494]: GdmDisplay: Session never registered, failing
Oct 18 09:41:40 archtop systemd[516]: Stopping D-Bus User Message Bus...
Oct 18 09:41:40 archtop systemd[516]: gnome-session-restart-dbus.service: Succeeded.
Oct 18 09:41:40 archtop systemd[1]: session-c1.scope: Succeeded.
Oct 18 09:41:40 archtop systemd-logind[491]: Session c1 logged out. Waiting for processes to exit.
Oct 18 09:41:40 archtop pulseaudio[538]: E: [pulseaudio] stdin-util.c: Unable to read or parse data from client.
Oct 18 09:41:40 archtop systemd-logind[491]: Removed session c1.
Oct 18 09:41:40 archtop gdm[494]: Child process -526 was already dead.
Oct 18 09:41:40 archtop gdm[494]: Child process -526 was already dead.
Oct 18 09:41:40 archtop systemd[516]: dbus.service: Succeeded.
Oct 18 09:41:40 archtop systemd[516]: Stopped D-Bus User Message Bus.
Oct 18 09:41:40 archtop systemd[516]: Started D-Bus User Message Bus.

I have pasted the entire output of journalctl here - without-nvidia and with-nvidia

Would appreciate any help on fixing this or debugging this further?

Last edited by cnu (2019-10-18 10:12:48)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome Login Screen takes too long to show up

WIld guess (didnt check the journal): https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GD … rg_backend

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cnu

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Registered: 2019-10-18

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome Login Screen takes too long to show up

That fixed it. Thanks a lot.