I have just installed Ubuntu Studio 22.04 onto Dell Precision 7530 laptop. I've come across a bothersome issue:
The login screen hangs occasionally - i can maybe type one character, but then it becomes unresponsive. cursor still moves. I have to do ctrl + alt + F3 and restart display manager to get in. When I run systemctl status, it tells me that it's degraded, and --failed flag reveals [email protected] having issues.
Once i restart display manager, the error goes away and I can get in.
The BIOS is up to date, secure boot is disabled, legacy mode ROM's are disabled. I have installed the latest (tested) nvidia driver version 535.146.02 for my graphics card. the freezing issue was present before and is present after. My display manager is SDDM.
I have tried.
- rm .Xauthority. That was a solution for someone, but has no effect on me.
- ensuring /etc has correct permissions, which it does.
- disabling Auto Switch for Thunderbolt in BIOS. No apparent change.
- disabling Switchable Graphics in BIOS, which made it look like as if i lacked any proper graphic drivers. Reverted that change.
- under Desktop Session (system settings) I chose to start with an empty session as opposed to restoring a previously saved session. This has some positive effect on shutdown speed, but the issues are still around.
- under Startup and Shutdown --> Login Screen,I chose Breeze as it helped someone. First thing I saw after reboot was a frozen login screen. :)
Below's an example of what the failed service says:
systemctl status [email protected]:
× [email protected] - User Manager for UID 121
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]; static)
Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
└─timeout.conf
Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Sun 2024-01-14 13:19:19 EET; 59min ago
Docs: man:[email protected](5)
Process: 1485 ExecStart=/lib/systemd/systemd --user (code=killed, signal=KILL)
Main PID: 1485 (code=killed, signal=KILL)
Status: "Startup finished in 1.915s."
CPU: 12.417s
jaan 14 13:19:19 Neutrino-Flute-Raw-Precision systemd[1]: [email protected]: Killing process 1541 (n/a) with signal SIGKILL.
jaan 14 13:19:19 Neutrino-Flute-Raw-Precision systemd[1]: [email protected]: Killing process 1542 (n/a) with signal SIGKILL.
jaan 14 13:19:19 Neutrino-Flute-Raw-Precision systemd[1]: [email protected]: Killing process 1568 (alsa-midi-seq) with signal SIGKILL.
jaan 14 13:19:19 Neutrino-Flute-Raw-Precision systemd[1]: [email protected]: Killing process 1569 (n/a) with signal SIGKILL.
jaan 14 13:19:19 Neutrino-Flute-Raw-Precision systemd[1]: [email protected]: Killing process 1570 (n/a) with signal SIGKILL.
jaan 14 13:19:19 Neutrino-Flute-Raw-Precision systemd[1]: [email protected]: Main process exited, code=killed, status=9/KILL
jaan 14 13:19:19 Neutrino-Flute-Raw-Precision systemd[1]: [email protected]: Killing process 1568 (alsa-midi-seq) with signal SIGKILL.
jaan 14 13:19:19 Neutrino-Flute-Raw-Precision systemd[1]: [email protected]: Failed with result 'timeout'.
jaan 14 13:19:19 Neutrino-Flute-Raw-Precision systemd[1]: Stopped User Manager for UID 121.
jaan 14 13:19:19 Neutrino-Flute-Raw-Precision systemd[1]: [email protected]: Consumed 12.417s CPU time.
My system:
System:
Kernel: 6.2.0-1018-lowlatency x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.24.7 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM
Distro: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Precision 7530 v: N/A serial: <filter>
Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Dell model: 03RV2M v: A00 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: 1.31.0
date: 11/01/2023
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 64.8 Wh (100.0%) condition: 64.8/97.0 Wh (66.8%)
volts: 12.3 min: 11.4 model: BYD DELL GW0K997 type: Li-poly
serial: <filter> status: Full
CPU:
Info: 6-core model: Intel Core i7-8750H bits: 64 type: MT MCP smt: enabled
arch: Coffee Lake rev: A cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB L3: 9 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 2191 high: 2200 min/max: 800/4100 volts: 0.8 V
ext-clock: 100 MHz cores: 1: 2200 2: 2200 3: 2200 4: 2200 5: 2200 6: 2200
7: 2094 8: 2200 9: 2199 10: 2200 11: 2200 12: 2200 bogomips: 52799
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] vendor: Dell
driver: i915 v: kernel ports: active: eDP-1
empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3e9b
class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GP107GLM [Quadro P2000 Mobile] vendor: Dell
driver: nvidia v: 535.146.02 pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 ports:
active: none empty: DP-4, DP-5, DP-6, HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:1cba class-ID: 0300
Device-3: Realtek Integrated Webcam HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo
bus-ID: 1-11:4 chip-ID: 0bda:568c class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Display: server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
loaded: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: fbdev,nouveau,vesa gpu: i915
display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 102 s-size: 480x270mm (18.9x10.6")
s-diag: 551mm (21.7")
Monitor-1: eDP-1-1 mapped: eDP-1 model: AU Optronics res: 1920x1080
hz: 60 dpi: 142 size: 344x193mm (13.5x7.6") diag: 394mm (15.5")
modes: 1920x1080
OpenGL: renderer: Quadro P2000/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 535.146.02
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a348 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA GP107GL High Definition Audio vendor: Dell
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0fb9 class-ID: 0403
Device-3: Focusrite-Novation Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 2nd Gen type: USB
driver: snd-usb-audio bus-ID: 1-1:2 chip-ID: 1235:8202 class-ID: 0102
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k6.2.0-1018-lowlatency running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.20 running: yes
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-LM vendor: Dell driver: e1000e v: kernel
port: N/A bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15bb class-ID: 0200
IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Wireless-AC 9260 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie:
speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 6f:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2526 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp111s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 9260 Bluetooth Adapter type: USB driver: btusb
v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-14:6 chip-ID: 8087:0025 class-ID: e001
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 4 state: up address: <filter>
bt-v: 3.0 lmp-v: 5.1 sub-v: 100 hci-v: 5.1 rev: 100
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.82 TiB used: 246.38 GiB (13.2%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital model: WD Blue SN580 2TB
size: 1.82 TiB speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
rev: 281010WD temp: 39.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 1.79 TiB used: 246.38 GiB (13.4%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 299.4 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (2.0%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 48.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 47 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
Packages: 2950 apt: 2937 snap: 13
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
1: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy main restricted
2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-updates main restricted
3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy universe
4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-updates universe
5: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy multiverse
6: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-updates multiverse
7: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security main restricted
8: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security universe
9: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security multiverse
10: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nicotine-team-ubuntu-stable-jammy.list
1: deb https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/nicotine-team/stable/ubuntu/ jammy main
Info:
Processes: 355 Uptime: 1h 39m wakeups: 44848 Memory: 31.1 GiB
used: 3.37 GiB (10.9%) Init: systemd v: 249 runlevel: 5 Compilers:
gcc: 11.4.0 alt: 11/12 Shell: Sudo (sudo) v: 1.9.9 default: Bash v: 5.1.16
running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.13
Once I'm logged in, everything works fine. No issues with sleep and idling either.
I'm stumped. What can I do to fix these problems?
journalctl -p5(where -p5 filters out unnescessary stuff) immediately after login, I found out that it's multiple instances of fluidsynth that need to get killed along with a systemd process. That would result in the failed [email protected] and a hanging logon screen. found this thing about disabling the fluidsynth service from starting up at boot. I'm gonna try that out now.