I’ve just landed here after being 1.5 years on MX Linux and I am very happy about this.
I’ve always wanted a distro that is rolling release but stable at the same time with a very well done Plasma implementation and this distro simply rocks it! This one fits me perfectly and will be my daily driver from now on.
Everything runs very well and smooth with just only one exception. My issue is regarding with a delay that appears after GRUB disappears. Then a black screen with some ACPI errors appear which are fine, I would say, they also appeared on MX Linux disregarding the kernel used and never had a problem.
But on SUSE there is also this loading Nvidia Kernel Module line that might be the cause? Not sure.
Anyway, as I was saying, after the GRUB and these errors on black screen what follows is a complete delay with black screen which turn into half black and the other half grey. This thing stays like this for like 2 minutes and only after that the log in screen appears. Then the distro works fine but it’s really not okay to be like that.
The only things I did after installation is to a couple of basic software like GIMP and Kde Connect as well as the codecs and Nivida driver using these scripts from opensuse-community dot org and nothing more. Everything automated via Yast, which I love.
What do you think the problem might be and what can I do to fix it? Thanks
For some reason, I cannot get anything with cat.
I also tried opening the terminal in that specific folder and going just sudo cat boot.log and nothing came out.
Also, I see that the system does not record what happened more than 1-2 boots in the past?
The issue happened again today. After GRUB it goes into that black screen which changes a couple of times 2-4 times, the grey area gradually overs more and more of the screen. After a short change, then it reaches those 3 loading green buttons which are specific to SUSE and only after than another black-reload of the screen happens and finally login screen appears.
I think it’s related to the latest Nvidia update ( 545 from 16 November ), after making this update the usual loading screen after grub was replaced with graphical glitch and later three green dot, not to mention that it did take way more time than usual to show the login screen, but after that the x11 session seems to work fine I did not notice anything suspicious compared to the previous 535 version, I still did a rollback to go back to 535 and no issues on boot there.
The system thinks your posts are spam because you use multiple links to the same site. I have no doubt this is a bout pastebin.com
I have undone the systems actions, but please remark that not many people here love it visit such commercial sites. We have paste.opensuse.org available for long computer texts and images.
My guess is, it is a misbehaving plymouth.
Nvidia here is smooth on the latest tumbleweed snapshot.
Lately the HP logo and the rotating splash screen showed up again til now with the new kernel.
It’s been a while I have not seen it during boot, it only shows up here only when shutting down.
So I’ve updated again a moment ago since a new version of Nvidia driver is available ( 545.29.6 ) and … I have still the boot problem except that the screen do not glitch out like it used to do but it still take time to boot and on the last 3 consecutive reboot after the update I’ve seen the 3 green dot loader 2 times and the usual spinner one time, I have also more “Flip event timeout on head 0/1” logged for some reasons…
But I’ve noticed something interesting after a cat /var/log/boot.log ( full logs → openSUSE Paste )
I can see two line related to resuming from hibernation
[ OK ] Reached target Initrd Root Device.
Starting Resume from hibernation...
[ OK ] Finished Resume from hibernation.
Maybe it’s normal and it doesn’t actually try to resume from hibernation since it’s a fresh boot but the very first time I’ve encountered the long broken boot was before the faulty update when I’ve accidentally put my computer to hibernation and try to resume it, it did result in a long broken boot and no session resumed so maybe it could be related to that ?
It’s important to mention that I have enabled “nvidia-hibernate” service
systemctl status nvidia-hibernate
○ nvidia-hibernate.service - NVIDIA system hibernate actions
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nvidia-hibernate.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
Active: inactive (dead)
I will continue my investigation tomorrow there’s also something that could be tested, adding fbdev=1 to the boot parameters but I’m not sure how I’m supposed to do that from Grub so before breaking something …
This is reaaaaaaaally strange. I’ve been booting my desktops for 2-3 years now and never really paid too close attention to the actual boot screen output.
Except earlier today, I decided to take a quick video starting at the Grub boot selection screen, for about 5 seconds long. During playback, I stopped the video and took a screenshot - it’s what I’ve posted below.
I was gonna post about this and ask, and then I read your Reply. I never use Hibernate or Sleep mode on the desktops (and only Sleep on laptops).
This screen is shown, stops for about 2-3 seconds, the screen is cleared, then the startup sequence begins.
But yea, it’s a curious subject, but I don’t think it affects anything … as a I said, I never use Hibernate on any of my TW machines.
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