Fedora 34 boot screen

[Paul Smith]

Dear All,

Since a few weeks ago, when I boot my Fedora 34 machine, I get a three
animated square dots as a boot screen like the following:

https://i.stack.imgur.com/7hFp0.png

Moreover, the booting duration seems to be longer than before.

Any reason for that?

Thanks in advance,

Paul

[Jonathan Billings]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 02:12:18PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
>  Since a few weeks ago, when I boot my Fedora 34 machine, I get a
> three
>  animated square dots as a boot screen like the following:
>  
>  https://i.stack.imgur.com/7hFp0.png
>  
>  Moreover, the booting duration seems to be longer than before.
>  
>  Any reason for that? 
Might be worth looking through the archives for a recent similar case:

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail].o...

See if the solutions there help?

-- 
Jonathan Billings <billings(a)negate.org&gt;

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2021-07-27 at 09:21 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote:
>  On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 02:12:18PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
>  > Since a few weeks ago, when I boot my Fedora 34 machine, I get a
>  > three
>  > animated square dots as a boot screen like the following:
>  > 
>  > https://i.stack.imgur.com/7hFp0.png
>  > 
>  > Moreover, the booting duration seems to be longer than before.
>  > 
>  > Any reason for that?
>  
>  Might be worth looking through the archives for a recent similar case:
>  
>
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail].o...
>  
>  See if the solutions there help? 
This is what worked for me (from the same thread):

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail].o...

poc

[Paul Smith]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 5:05 PM Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  > > Since a few weeks ago, when I boot my Fedora 34 machine, I get a
>  > > three
>  > > animated square dots as a boot screen like the following:
>  > >
>  > > https://i.stack.imgur.com/7hFp0.png
>  > >
>  > > Moreover, the booting duration seems to be longer than before.
>  > >
>  > > Any reason for that?
>  >
>  > Might be worth looking through the archives for a recent similar case:
>  >
>  >
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail].o...
>  >
>  > See if the solutions there help?
>
>  This is what worked for me (from the same thread):
>
>
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail].o...
Thanks, Patrick. Let us see if meanwhile the bug that Ben Cotton
mentions is fixed.

Paul

[Ben Cotton]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 9:13 AM Paul Smith <phhs80(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Moreover, the booting duration seems to be longer than before.
>
>  Any reason for that?
>  
You can check what's causing the delay with:
    systemd-analyze blame

I'm guessing it's probably going to show dracut-initqueue.service at
the top, which is probably this bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1985205

-- 
Ben Cotton
He / Him / His
Fedora Program Manager
Red Hat
TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis

[Paul Smith]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 3:39 PM Ben Cotton <bcotton(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  > Moreover, the booting duration seems to be longer than before.
>  >
>  > Any reason for that?
>  >
>  You can check what's causing the delay with:
>      systemd-analyze blame
>
>  I'm guessing it's probably going to show dracut-initqueue.service at
>  the top, which is probably this bug:
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1985205 
Thanks, Ben. It seems you are right:

---------------------------------------
$ systemd-analyze blame
1min 31.132s dracut-initqueue.service
     12.693s dnf-makecache.service
      6.748s NetworkManager-wait-online.service
      3.166s akmods.service
      2.896s firewalld.service
...
---------------------------------------

[Barry Scott]

>  On 27 Jul 2021, at 15:36, Ben Cotton <bcotton(a)redhat.com&gt;
> wrote:
>  
>  On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 9:13 AM Paul Smith <phhs80(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
> > 
> > Moreover, the booting duration seems to be longer than before.
> > 
> > Any reason for that?
> > 
>  You can check what's causing the delay with:
>     systemd-analyze blame
>  
>  I'm guessing it's probably going to show dracut-initqueue.service at
>  the top, which is probably this bug:
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1985205 
I found this related ticket:

	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1976653

I followed the clue about resume= on the kernel command line.

When I removed resume= the problem was fixed for the F34 that
had the 90 second pause.

Barry


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[Paul Smith]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 8:23 AM Barry Scott <barry(a)barrys-emacs.org&gt; wrote:
>  >> Moreover, the booting duration seems to be longer than before.
>  >>
>  >> Any reason for that?
>  >>
>  > You can check what's causing the delay with:
>  >    systemd-analyze blame
>  >
>  > I'm guessing it's probably going to show dracut-initqueue.service at
>  > the top, which is probably this bug:
>  > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1985205
>
>  I found this related ticket:
>
>          https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1976653
>
>  I followed the clue about resume= on the kernel command line.
>
>  When I removed resume= the problem was fixed for the F34 that
>  had the 90 second pause. 
Thanks, Barry, for the tip. I hope this bug is fixed soon!

Paul

[Ben Cotton]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 7:55 AM Paul Smith <phhs80(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Thanks, Barry, for the tip. I hope this bug is fixed soon!
>  
There's a fix in the updates-testing repo:
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-7b6767f8af

It should land in the stable repo tonight.

-- 
Ben Cotton
He / Him / His
Fedora Program Manager
Red Hat
TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 1:53 PM Ben Cotton <bcotton(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  > Thanks, Barry, for the tip. I hope this bug is fixed soon!
>  >
>  There's a fix in the updates-testing repo:
>  https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-7b6767f8af
>
>  It should land in the stable repo tonight. 
Great, Ben! Thanks!

Paul

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 1:53 PM Ben Cotton <bcotton(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  > Thanks, Barry, for the tip. I hope this bug is fixed soon!
>  >
>  There's a fix in the updates-testing repo:
>  https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-7b6767f8af
>
>  It should land in the stable repo tonight. 
Unfortunately, that does not fix the problem, in my case:

---------------------------------------
$ systemd-analyze blame
1min 31.106s dracut-initqueue.service
      6.914s NetworkManager-wait-online.service
      3.535s akmods.service
      3.283s firewalld.service
---------------------------------------

Paul

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 2:18 PM Paul Smith <phhs80(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  > There's a fix in the updates-testing repo:
>  > https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-7b6767f8af
>  >
>  > It should land in the stable repo tonight.
>
>  Unfortunately, that does not fix the problem, in my case:
>
>  ---------------------------------------
>  $ systemd-analyze blame
>  1min 31.106s dracut-initqueue.service
>        6.914s NetworkManager-wait-online.service
>        3.535s akmods.service
>        3.283s firewalld.service
>  --------------------------------------- 
It was needed to regenerate the initrd with "sudo dracut -f":

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1976653#c75

Paul