Slow from Password to KDE Desktop

What happens between hitting enter on the password on the login screen and starting up the full KDE Desktop? For me, it’s taking about 1 min 15 sec and I think it was much faster before.

The major change in my system is an NVIDIA T600. It’s running the latest available driver, 515.57, installed the “hard way”.

Is there a log to look at that will give some insight on what’s starting up?

Thanks!

Yep:

karl@6700K:~> journalctl -b --user -g started     
Jul 03 05:24:12 6700K systemd[1013]: Started PipeWire Multimedia Service. 
Jul 03 05:24:12 6700K systemd[1013]: Started Multimedia Service Session Manager. 
Jul 03 05:24:12 6700K systemd[1013]: Started PipeWire PulseAudio. 
Jul 03 05:24:12 6700K systemd[1013]: Started D-Bus User Message Bus. 
Jul 03 05:24:13 6700K systemd[1013]: Started Baloo File Indexer Daemon. 
Jul 03 05:24:13 6700K systemd[1013]: Started KDE Config Module Initialization. 
Jul 03 05:24:14 6700K systemd[1013]: Started KDE Daemon. 
Jul 03 05:24:14 6700K systemd[1013]: Started KDE Global Shortcuts Server. 
Jul 03 05:24:14 6700K systemd[1013]: Started KDE Session Management Server. 
Jul 03 05:24:14 6700K systemd[1013]: Started KDE Window Manager. 
Jul 03 05:24:14 6700K systemd[1013]: Started User preferences database. 
Jul 03 05:24:14 6700K systemd[1013]: Started KDE Plasma Workspace. 
Jul 03 05:24:14 6700K systemd[1013]: Started Proxies GTK DBus menus to a Plasma readable format. 
Jul 03 05:24:14 6700K systemd[1013]: Started Handle legacy xembed system tray icons. 
Jul 03 05:24:14 6700K systemd[1013]: Started KActivityManager Activity manager Service. 
Jul 03 05:24:15 6700K systemd[1013]: Started KDE PolicyKit Authentication Agent. 
Jul 03 05:24:15 6700K systemd[1013]: Started Powerdevil. 
Jul 03 05:24:15 6700K systemd[1013]: Started Backup Monitor. 
Jul 03 05:24:15 6700K systemd[1013]: Started Evolution Alarm Notify. 
Jul 03 05:24:15 6700K systemd[1013]: Started Geoclue Demo agent. 
Jul 03 05:24:15 6700K systemd[1013]: Started Accessibility. 
Jul 03 05:24:15 6700K systemd[1013]: Started Calendar Reminders. 
Jul 03 05:24:15 6700K systemd[1013]: Started Set KDE_FULL_SESSION=1. 
Jul 03 05:24:15 6700K systemd[1013]: Started KScreen. 
Jul 03 05:24:15 6700K systemd[1013]: Started Konsole - Terminal. 
Jul 03 05:24:15 6700K systemd[1013]: Started Virtual filesystem service. 
Jul 03 05:24:15 6700K systemd[1013]: Started Firefox - Web Browser. 
Jul 03 05:24:15 6700K systemd[1013]: Started Accessibility services bus. 
Jul 03 05:24:16 6700K systemd[1013]: Started Evolution source registry. 
Jul 03 05:24:16 6700K systemd[1013]: Started sandboxed app permission store. 
Jul 03 05:24:16 6700K systemd[1013]: Started flatpak document portal service. 
Jul 03 05:24:16 6700K systemd[1013]: Started Portal service (GTK/GNOME implementation). 
Jul 03 05:24:16 6700K systemd[1013]: Started Xdg Desktop Portal For KDE. 
Jul 03 05:24:16 6700K systemd[1013]: Started Portal service. 
Jul 03 05:24:17 6700K systemd[1013]: Started Evolution calendar service. 
Jul 03 05:24:17 6700K systemd[1013]: Started Evolution address book service. 
Jul 03 05:26:15 6700K systemd[1013]: Started Virtual filesystem service - disk device monitor. 
Jul 03 05:26:15 6700K systemd[1013]: Started Virtual filesystem service - Apple File Conduit monitor. 
Jul 03 05:26:15 6700K systemd[1013]: Started Virtual filesystem service - Media Transfer Protocol monitor. 
Jul 03 05:26:15 6700K systemd[1013]: Started Virtual filesystem service - digital camera monitor. 
Jul 03 05:26:15 6700K systemd[1013]: Started Virtual filesystem service - GNOME Online Accounts monitor. 
karl@6700K:~> 

Thanks Karl!

Mine is really short?!

It looks like Sound Service and Portal Service take up the most time toward the end of login. How can that be sped up? Portal Service seems to be started several times too! Redundant?

% journalctl -b --user -g started 
-- Logs begin at Tue 2022-02-22 09:21:42 PST, end at Tue 2022-07-05 00:17:23 PDT. -- 
Jul 05 00:13:47 linux-st0n systemd[7536]: Started D-Bus User Message Bus. 
Jul 05 00:13:49 linux-st0n systemd[7536]: Started Virtual filesystem service. 
Jul 05 00:13:50 linux-st0n systemd[7536]: Started Accessibility services bus. 
Jul 05 00:13:53 linux-st0n systemd[7536]: Started sandboxed app permission store. 
Jul 05 00:13:53 linux-st0n systemd[7536]: Started flatpak document portal service. 
Jul 05 00:13:54 linux-st0n systemd[7536]: Started Portal service (GTK+/GNOME implementation). 
Jul 05 00:13:55 linux-st0n systemd[7536]: Started Portal service (GTK+/GNOME implementation). 
Jul 05 00:14:06 linux-st0n systemd[7536]: Started Multimedia Service. 
Jul 05 00:14:06 linux-st0n systemd[7536]: Started Multimedia Service Session Manager. 
Jul 05 00:14:07 linux-st0n systemd[7536]: Started Daemon to manage razer devices in userspace. 
Jul 05 00:14:08 linux-st0n systemd[7536]: Started Portal service (GTK+/GNOME implementation). 
Jul 05 00:14:08 linux-st0n systemd[7536]: Started Portal service. 
Jul 05 00:14:17 linux-st0n systemd[7536]: Started Sound Service. 
Jul 05 00:14:38 linux-st0n systemd[7536]: Started Portal service (GTK+/GNOME implementation). 
Jul 05 00:15:08 linux-st0n systemd[7536]: Started Portal service (GTK+/GNOME implementation).

I presume you are running GNOME, while I am running KDE. Run “systemd-cgls /user.slice” to figure out names of services.