Is this the right place to ask for help? Or is there another place? Anyways, feel free to delete this post if i’m in the wrong spot.

I use Pop OS on an Asus. Something has happened where i either have a 10 min plus boot time, or it doesn’t boot at all. I have reinstalled Pop OS twice (and used recovery mode) and even took it into a computer shop to see if there was something wrong with my hardware (there isn’t). When I first do a new install it will restart fine, but then it’ll be the next day when it will either take over 8 minutes to load, or it will be stuck on boot.

Right now it is stuck on boot. I can get into a live usb stick just fine. I have done systemanalyze blame, and it didn’t give me any helpful information. I have the same issue even if I try to press space bar and boot into an old kernel.

I should note that my computer has encryption enabled.

Any help would be awesome.

All hail the other linux noobs out there!

  • just_another_person@lemmy.world
    12·
    17 hours ago

    Hit ESC during boot and watch the boot logs to see what’s hanging. Some systemd service is taking awhile and doesn’t have a sensible timeout. Probably network.

    • Crash@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      13 hours ago

      i was able to get into my old kernel and it says in the journal “failed to start application launched by gnome session binary” and then when i went into recovery mode it showed something about caspermdcheck service failing

  • mustlane@lemmy.zip
    8·
    17 hours ago

    "systemd-analyze blame didn’t give me any helpful information

    And what exactly did it give you? Could you copy-paste the output of that command (also known as “stdout”)?

    EDIT: It seems that you made the same post 2 times. Ideally, you should delete one of them.

  • sludgewife@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    4·
    15 hours ago

    can you post journalctl -b0 and systemd-analyze blame results from after a successful boot. i have broken and fixed my own systems countless ways so maybe i’ll spot something

      • sludgewife@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        3·
        13 hours ago

        thanks, can you please give me the output of

        journalctl -b0 -u systemd-modules-load

        i’m curious why it’s taking 30s. maybe the other two services as well

        the dmesg you posted is very truncated, just like a screenful of info. you can usually pipe command output to curl with these pastebin sites. i understand if you’re concerned about sensitive info in dmesg though

        • Crash@lemmy.mlOP
          1·
          7 hours ago

          j@pop-os:~$ journalctl -b0 -u systemd-modules-load

          Dec 07 12:45:50 pop-os systemd-modules-load[614]: Inserted module ‘lp’ Dec 07 12:45:50 pop-os systemd-modules-load[614]: Inserted module ‘ppdev’ Dec 07 12:45:50 pop-os systemd-modules-load[614]: Inserted module ‘parport_pc’ Dec 07 12:45:50 pop-os systemd-modules-load[614]: Inserted module ‘msr’ Dec 07 12:45:50 pop-os systemd-modules-load[614]: Inserted module ‘kyber_iosched’ Dec 07 12:45:50 pop-os systemd[1]: Finished Load Kernel Modules.

      • Crash@lemmy.mlOP
        1·
        13 hours ago

        I am currently on this computer but booted into an old kernal which was still slow to load but eventually got me on

  • OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    2·
    13 hours ago

    Based on your systemd output, it looks like the system is taking a long while to decrypt your drive. Is it a spinning disk, or an SSD?

    I’m not sure if the PC repair shop specifically checked your drive, but it might be worth swapping out for another. Or maybe run some speed tests and/or diagnostics to see if there’s something funky going on.

    You could also try an unencrypted install to see if the problem persists.

    • colournoun@beehaw.org
      2·
      12 hours ago

      Yeah this sounds like a disk/ssd hardware problem to me. Possibly only one part of the disk is bad and giving inconsistent results.