On the few occasions when I have to restart my machine, it seems there is an odd pause.
It was not happening before I upgraded [fresh install] to opensuse 13.2.
I click on Start>Leave>Restart and I get a window that counts down the restart.
When restart is activiated, the screen goes to black with a lot of background? commands and then,
Screen fades to opensuse splash screen and then blacks out. {Seems normal to this point}
{This is where I feel something not normal is happening.}
The screen stays black for about 45 to 60 seconds, like the machine is not going to start.
Then I hear a small click and startup proceeds as normal.
[Asus POST screen, opensuse Start screen, opensuse splash screen, opensuse LOGIn screen, etc.]
Would there be anyway to see what is happening in that pause, or why that pause is happening. There are no noises from harddrives at that time, but I am using a SSD for the OS.
Machine is perfectly quiet, but the lights are on and the fans are working.
(pasted from OP’s signature)
> Machine # 1 - Asus P8Z77-V Deluxe, i7-3770k 3.5GHZ, 16.0 GB ram, openSUSE 13.2 64-bit, KDE 4.1.4.3
On 2015-01-15, LaQuirrELL <LaQuirrELL@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> On the few occasions when I have to restart my machine, it seems there is an odd pause. It was not happening before
> I upgraded [fresh install] to opensuse 13.2.
>
> I click on Start>Leave>Restart and I get a window that counts down the restart. When restart is activiated, the
> screen goes to black with a lot of background? commands and then, Screen fades to opensuse splash screen and then
> blacks out. -{Seems_normal_to_this_point}-
>
> -{This is where I feel something not normal is happening.-} The screen stays black for about 45 to 60 seconds,
Ahhh… the wait with trepidation on a GNU/Linux reboot/shutdown! You say you performed a fresh install - but have you
updated all packages i.e.
sh-4.2$ su -
sh-4.2# zypper up # needs a working internet connection
sh-4.2# shutdown -r now
Then when the system reboots - try rebooting again - you still have the pause?
> -like_the_machine_is_not_going_to_start-. Then I hear a small click and startup proceeds as normal. [Asus POST
> screen, opensuse Start screen, opensuse splash screen, opensuse LOGIn screen, etc.]
Without knowing your hardware in detail it’s difficult to guess. But the small click is likely to be your sound card.
High quality sound cards (e.g. Asus Xonar cards) have a relay that clicks when activated to prevent power spikes blowing
your speakers.
> Does this seem ODD?
Depends on the hardware. You’ve told us your CPU/motherboard but not the graphics card and sound card. So all we can do
is guess until you do. And are you really sure Machine #1 is running KDE 4.1.4.3?
@nrickert OK I will try that and see what happens.
@flymail - sry my eyesight must be bad, I thought that was 4.1.4.3, but it is 4.14.3 (NOTE: I have fixed it)
- yes all updates are done thru zypper and checked for new ones regularly. The last one was a kernel firmware update, yesterday.
- Bios is UEFI
- video is onboard.
-Other hardware - [x1] OCZ vertex 4 SSD 128GB {OS}
[x3] WD Velociraptor HDD {Storage}
[x1] Asus Xonar Essence STX sound card (Yes, possibly the click noise, card was installed just after the time of fresh install)
[x1] Asus optical drive
[x3] cooling fans
Then when the system reboots - try rebooting again - you still have the pause?
I have tried this and yes, the pause is still there.
On 2015-01-16, nrickert <nrickert@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> On re-reading your OP, I think you should consider the possibility of a
> failing disk. Maybe run the smartctl tests.
I agree it looks suspicious. It might be helpful, especially when interpreting the tests, if you could output the
results of:
sh-4.2$ su -
sh-4.2# for devsd in $(find /dev/sd* ! -name "*[0-9]"); do parted $devsd unit GiB print; done
sh-4.2# cat /etc/fstab | grep /dev/sd
sh-4.2# df -h | grep /dev/sd
sh-4.2# exit
# journalctl --list-boot
-20 dc02428474664ffab8b71caef7302492 Thu 2015-01-15 08:10:54 EST—Thu 2015-01-15 08:16:59 EST
-19 0266b9ca9f244725a0b9f33132b75257 Thu 2015-01-15 08:17:29 EST—Thu 2015-01-15 08:27:09 EST
-18 165e978aa6fe49ddb477ad007904b2e9 Thu 2015-01-15 08:29:21 EST—Thu 2015-01-15 10:46:33 EST
Pick the boot entry before the last. In my case, it would be -19.
journalctl -b 0266b9ca9f244725a0b9f33132b75257 -r
This will post that boot journal in the terminal in reverse, from shutdown to boot. Look for the pause, something that’s taking a long time to shut down or maybe highlighted in red as an error.
@nrickert and flymail
I have done smartctl on Sata HD’s before [and will check mine], but I have never done this on an SSD. Can smartctl be run on an SSD? Mine is an OCZ Vertex 4.
@Buddlespit - ty, I will try this cmd as soon as I can reboot.
On 2015-01-18, LaQuirrELL <LaQuirrELL@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> @nrickert and flymail
> I have done smartctl on Sata HD’s before [and will check mine], but I
> have never done this on an SSD. Can smartctl be run on an SSD? Mine is
> an OCZ Vertex 4.
I’ve a had a number of OCZ Vertex drivers and they’ve never failed. It would still be useful to help diagnose your
problem to output the results of what I requested in my previous post.
Some of the errors repeated them selves in each log:
|Jan 24 02:05:28 linux-l77p kernel: kvm: disabled by bios|
|---|
I did not include the whole output [possibly wrongly] because it was lengthy.
If anyone can interpret these errors, that would be nice.
I have googled a couple of them, but it is a bit beyond my understanding.
However, I am happy to report the original problem [hesitation on restart] has gone away since doing updates as of February 2, 2015. The machine starts up right quick, once again.
I am having some mouse/interface [KDE] issues, but that is for another post.
Thank You ALL.