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]/...

See if the solutions there help?

[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]/...
>
> See if the solutions there help?

This is what worked for me (from the same thread):

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

poc

[Paul Smith]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 5:05 PM Patrick O'Callaghan
 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]/...
> >
> > See if the solutions there help?
>
> This is what worked for me (from the same thread):
>
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/...

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  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

[Paul Smith]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 3:39 PM Ben Cotton  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  wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 9:13 AM Paul Smith  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  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  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.

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 1:53 PM Ben Cotton  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  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  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