[Closed]Login screen freezes the computer when I log in
Posted: Mar 18th, '21, 17:23
I am running Cauldron. Sometimes, when I attempt to log in to Plasma, the screen freezes completely. The symptoms are:
It works fine through the input of the password.
When I click the Login button, everything freezes except the mouse cursor.
The clock display freezes.
None of the buttons or menus is responsive.
I cannot bring up a console using any of the Ctr-Alt-F<n> sequences.
The disk drive access light is on steady, but eventually goes out. (probably the file system indexing task)
I have to shut the computer down by holding in the power button.
When I reboot, everything works fine.
After the successful boot I dumped out the logs for the good boot and the failed boot, which are attached.
I noticed in the failed boot, an error around line 1567, "Failed to start KDE Session Management Server.". That error is not found in the bootlog for the successful boot.
This is an intermittent problem. I cannot reproduce it on demand. I thought that it might be related to this problem:
https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=13964
but that seems to have been resolved by removing extra .Xauthority files. My system does not appear to have that problem.
Here is my inxi info
Banjo
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It works fine through the input of the password.
When I click the Login button, everything freezes except the mouse cursor.
The clock display freezes.
None of the buttons or menus is responsive.
I cannot bring up a console using any of the Ctr-Alt-F<n> sequences.
The disk drive access light is on steady, but eventually goes out. (probably the file system indexing task)
I have to shut the computer down by holding in the power button.
When I reboot, everything works fine.
After the successful boot I dumped out the logs for the good boot and the failed boot, which are attached.
I noticed in the failed boot, an error around line 1567, "Failed to start KDE Session Management Server.". That error is not found in the bootlog for the successful boot.
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Mar 18 09:33:25 BSKMageia9 systemd[1]: systemd-hostnamed.service: Succeeded.
Mar 18 09:33:31 BSKMageia9 kcminit_startup[8329]: QProcess: Destroyed while process ("xrdb") is still running.
Mar 18 09:34:28 BSKMageia9 systemd[8206]: plasma-kcminit.service: start operation timed out. Terminating.
Mar 18 09:34:28 BSKMageia9 systemd[8206]: plasma-ksmserver.service: start operation timed out. Terminating.
Mar 18 09:34:28 BSKMageia9 systemd[8206]: plasma-kwin_x11.service: start operation timed out. Terminating.
Mar 18 09:34:28 BSKMageia9 systemd[8206]: plasma-ksmserver.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
Mar 18 09:34:28 BSKMageia9 systemd[8206]: Failed to start KDE Session Management Server.
Mar 18 09:34:28 BSKMageia9 systemd[8206]: Dependency failed for KDE Plasma Workspace Core.
Mar 18 09:34:28 BSKMageia9 systemd[8206]: Dependency failed for KDE Plasma Workspace.
Mar 18 09:34:28 BSKMageia9 systemd[8206]: plasma-workspace@x11.target: Job plasma-workspace@x11.target/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Mar 18 09:34:28 BSKMageia9 systemd[8206]: plasma-core.target: Job plasma-core.target/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Mar 18 09:34:28 BSKMageia9 systemd[8206]: plasma-kwin_x11.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
Mar 18 09:34:28 BSKMageia9 systemd[8206]: Failed to start KDE Window Manager.
Mar 18 09:34:28 BSKMageia9 systemd[8206]: Reached target Current graphical user session.
This is an intermittent problem. I cannot reproduce it on demand. I thought that it might be related to this problem:
https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=13964
but that seems to have been resolved by removing extra .Xauthority files. My system does not appear to have that problem.
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[poobah@BSKMageia9 ~]$ ll -a | grep authority
-rw------- 1 poobah poobah 0 Dec 31 10:09 .ICEauthority
-rw------- 1 poobah poobah 299 Mar 18 09:41 .Xauthority
Here is my inxi info
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$ inxi -b
System: Host: BSKMageia9 Kernel: 5.11.6-desktop-4.mga9 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.21.2 Distro: Mageia 9 mga9
Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: P5G41T-M LX PLUS v: Rev X.0x serial: <superuser required>
BIOS: American Megatrends v: 0502 date: 10/21/2011
CPU: Info: Dual Core Intel Core2 Duo E7300 [MCP] speed: 2667 MHz
Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA G94 [GeForce 9600 GT] driver: nouveau v: kernel
Display: x11 server: Mageia X.org 1.20.10 driver: loaded: nouveau,v4l resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: NV94 v: 3.3 Mesa 21.0.0
Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169
Device-2: Realtek RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter driver: 8139too
Device-3: Qualcomm Atheros AR9271 802.11n type: USB driver: ath9k_htc
Drives: Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 34.13 GiB (7.3%)
Info: Processes: 183 Uptime: 24m Memory: 3.84 GiB used: 1.34 GiB (34.9%) Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.01
Banjo
(_)=='=~