Slow boot times of around 1m30s++

Issues & Assistance
1

Hi there fellow CachyOS addicts. Thanks beforehand for reading and possibly helping me out.

I really tried to read & do everything related to CachyOS slow boot and shutdown issues online and although I tried some of the things that I read, issue still remains.

I am out of ideas and if anyone could help, it would be great.

Below you can find a log that I got from my system as well as various systemd-analyze outputs.

Let me know if I can provide anything else that may help you, help me.

Thanks beforehand and have a good day/afternoon/night.

https://paste.cachyos.org/p/e53551d.log

systemd-analyze
Startup finished in 24.314s (firmware) + 5.619s (loader) + 1min 5.904s (kernel) + 4.001s (userspace) = 1min 39.839s 
graphical.target reached after 3.956s in userspace.

systemd-analyze critical-chain
The time when unit became active or started is printed after the "@" character.
The time the unit took to start is printed after the "+" character.

graphical.target @3.956s
└─multi-user.target @3.956s
  └─plymouth-quit-wait.service @2.132s +1.824s
    └─systemd-user-sessions.service @2.114s +16ms
      └─nss-user-lookup.target @2.164s

systemd-analyze blame
1.824s plymouth-quit-wait.service
 302ms dev-nvme0n1p2.device
 241ms ldconfig.service
 230ms NetworkManager.service
 192ms systemd-journal-flush.service
 175ms dev-zram0.swap
 143ms systemd-udev-trigger.service
 142ms systemd-journald.service
 139ms systemd-rfkill.service
 135ms systemd-modules-load.service
 114ms user@1000.service
 111ms accounts-daemon.service
 104ms udisks2.service
 101ms lvm2-monitor.service
  87ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev-early.service
  79ms systemd-remount-fs.service
  68ms upower.service
  67ms plymouth-start.service
  59ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
  54ms systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service
  50ms polkit.service
  48ms libvirtd.service
  42ms power-profiles-daemon.service
  41ms systemd-zram-setup@zram0.service
  40ms logrotate.service
  38ms systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-D9D2\x2d421B.service
  34ms colord.service
  33ms systemd-udevd.service
  30ms systemd-udev-load-credentials.service
  30ms systemd-journal-catalog-update.service
  29ms systemd-resolved.service
  29ms systemd-hostnamed.service
  29ms systemd-userdbd.service
  28ms systemd-logind.service
  28ms rtkit-daemon.service
  27ms boot.mount
  24ms systemd-boot-random-seed.service
  24ms systemd-update-utmp.service
  24ms systemd-sysusers.service
  23ms systemd-vconsole-setup.service
  22ms systemd-update-done.service
  22ms user-runtime-dir@1000.service
  21ms home.mount
  20ms systemd-random-seed.service
  20ms root.mount
  20ms systemd-timesyncd.service
  20ms srv.mount
  16ms systemd-user-sessions.service
  15ms wpa_supplicant.service
  13ms tmp.mount
  12ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
  12ms plymouth-read-write.service
  11ms dbus-broker.service
   9ms dev-hugepages.mount
   9ms dev-mqueue.mount
   8ms sys-kernel-debug.mount
   8ms systemd-machined.service
   8ms sys-kernel-tracing.mount
   8ms kmod-static-nodes.service
   7ms var-cache.mount
   7ms gdm.service
   7ms var-log.mount
   7ms modprobe@configfs.service
   7ms systemd-binfmt.service
   6ms var-tmp.mount
   6ms modprobe@fuse.service
   6ms modprobe@drm.service
   6ms avahi-daemon.service
   5ms ufw.service
   5ms systemd-sysctl.service
   4ms alsa-restore.service
   2ms sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount
   2ms proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.mount
   2ms modprobe@loop.service
   2ms modprobe@dm_mod.service
   2ms sys-kernel-config.mount
   2ms nordvpnd.socket
2

Unplug USB devices and try again.

3

Thank you for your reply. Even though I have only my USB mouse+keyboard connected and NOTHING else related to USB, I have tried this and same slow boot.

I have also tried my other different USB keyboards+mice but same issue.

Any other ideas?

4

The lines in the kernel show very significant time with USB (almost a minute). It may be a usb port with issues if unplugging all USB devices didn’t help.

5

Once again thank you for your time and effort.

The following are true:

  • my motherboard Asrock X670E Pro RS has multiple USB ports that I have tried with my my devices in various ports & combinations
  • only my USB keyboard+mouse are plugged (no other USB devices)
  • tried plugging different USB keyboards+mice without my “default” ones
  • unplugging any and all USB devices doesn’t change the slow/long boot times

On the same computer and under VM installations of CachyOS or Nobara, I do have super fast boot times. Same is true with my other custom towers as well as my Alienware and Lenovo laptops.

6

Of course I recommended you tried it with EVERYTHING unplugged as a base line. Did you do that ?

7

Yes and I mentioned this fact on my 4th bullet point. Sorry if I confuse you with my English.

8

It wasn’t clear that you left them unplugged vs just moving them around.
Well then in that case, you almost certainly have a bad USB port (12 btw, though I don’t know how to figure out what one that is). At least based on the one boot record log you shared.

9

Wouldn’t this manifest under Windows 10 or 11 or while using my CachyOS?

Because I REALLY do not have ANY other issues besides this strange slow/long boot times (shutdowns too).

10

are you using flatpak or snapd ?

11

How do you mean? I have installed some flatpak apps in my system. Mostly I have installed apps through CachyOS Hello app.

12

do you use flatpak with autostart ?

13

Sorry for my late response. How can I check about this and if I need to change anything about it, how can I go about it? As far as my understanding concerned inside my ~/.config/autostart I have only the CachyOS Variety desktop wallpaper changing app.