Hello. I noticed today that when launching Steam, it appears the little window saying ‘loading user data’, but it stays there forever. Also, i tried to open the partition manager and when scanning the devices it takes a lot of time (but for this one it ends up opening and scanning). I am a bit lost on how to debug this issue, i looked through the journalctl and didn’t see a clue. Could someone point me in the direction on where to investigate next? Thanks in advance, kind regards.
update: this is the spec of my system:
Operating System: CachyOS Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.25.0
Qt Version: 6.11.0
Kernel Version: 6.18.22-1-cachyos-lts (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-12400F
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (31,1 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
Manufacturer: ASUS
I also tried booting up with the lts kernel, but the error persists. Here a screenshot of the state where it keeps going forever:
Hello, I just found the solution. I post it here just in case someone runs into a similar problem.
My issue was that while trying to install a Windows OS on a separate SSD disk, I left the device in a bad state, thus making it unreadable in CachyOS. I noticed the issue performing this command:
[justo@pimiento ~]$ journalctl -b -p 3 | grep -iE "disk|ata|nvme|usb|udev|udisks|steam"
abr 23 08:04:38 pimiento systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-label/1TB_SSD.
abr 23 08:06:08 pimiento systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-label/1TB_SSD.
abr 23 08:07:38 pimiento systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-label/1TB_SSD.
abr 23 08:09:08 pimiento systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-label/1TB_SSD.
abr 23 08:10:39 pimiento systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-label/1TB_SSD.
abr 23 08:12:09 pimiento systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-label/1TB_SSD.
abr 23 08:13:39 pimiento systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-label/1TB_SSD.
abr 23 08:15:09 pimiento systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-label/1TB_SSD.
abr 23 08:16:40 pimiento systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-label/1TB_SSD.
abr 23 08:18:10 pimiento systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-label/1TB_SSD.
abr 23 08:19:40 pimiento systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-label/1TB_SSD.
abr 23 08:21:11 pimiento systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-label/1TB_SSD.
abr 23 08:22:41 pimiento systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-label/1TB_SSD.
abr 23 08:24:11 pimiento systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-label/1TB_SSD.
abr 23 08:25:41 pimiento systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-label/1TB_SSD.
abr 23 08:27:12 pimiento systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-label/1TB_SSD.
abr 23 08:28:42 pimiento systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-label/1TB_SSD.
abr 23 08:30:12 pimiento systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-label/1TB_SSD.
abr 23 08:45:23 pimiento systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-label/1TB_SSD.
abr 23 08:46:54 pimiento systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-label/1TB_SSD.
abr 23 08:48:24 pimiento systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-label/1TB_SSD.
abr 23 08:49:54 pimiento systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-label/1TB_SSD.
abr 23 08:51:25 pimiento systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-label/1TB_SSD.
abr 23 08:52:55 pimiento systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-label/1TB_SSD.
abr 23 08:54:25 pimiento systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-label/1TB_SSD.
abr 23 08:55:56 pimiento systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-label/1TB_SSD.
abr 23 08:57:26 pimiento systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-label/1TB_SSD.
abr 23 08:58:56 pimiento systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-label/1TB_SSD.
abr 23 09:00:27 pimiento systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-label/1TB_SSD.
abr 23 09:01:57 pimiento systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-label/1TB_SSD.
abr 23 09:03:27 pimiento systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-label/1TB_SSD.
abr 23 09:04:57 pimiento systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-label/1TB_SSD.
After that, I just got into the partition manager (after an eternity loading) and then reformatted the SSD as an ext4 partition. Hope this helps, i will close the thread.
