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[EN] Dell Inspiron boot problems, kernels 5.1.1 and 5.1.2
« on: 2019/05/15, 13:30:39 »
Beginning with kernel 5.1.1, my LXQt siduction system, on a Dell n5110 laptop, has been experiencing serious boot problems. There are two long halts (several minutes) during the boot process, then the tty1 login prompt on black screen appears, and after root login, another long halt before the command prompt appears.  Kernel 5.0.14 and all previous kernels boot with no issue. I waited until kernel 5.1.2 was released to make this report, in case there was some anomaly with 5.1.1, however 5.1.2 has the same problem on the Dell. My KDE desktop systems, a custom tower with Asus motherboard with Nvidia graphics, and an HP laptop with Intel graphics, have no problem with 5.1.1 or 5.1.2.

Hardware config:

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System:    Host: n5110 Kernel: 5.1.2-towo.1-siduction-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Console: N/A
           Distro: siduction 17.1.0 Patience - lxqt - (201703051830)
Machine:   Type: Portable System: Dell product: Inspiron N5110 v: N/A serial: <filter>
           Mobo: Dell model: 034W60 v: A11 serial: <filter> BIOS: Dell v: A11 date: 08/03/2012
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 46.3 Wh condition: 50.6/81.3 Wh (62%)
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i3-2330M bits: 64 type: MT MCP L2 cache: 3072 KiB
           Speed: 798 MHz min/max: 800/2200 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 798 2: 798 3: 798 4: 799
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel
           Display: server: X.org 1.20.4 driver: i915 tty: 170x48
           Message: Advanced graphics data unavailable in console for root.
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.1.2-towo.1-siduction-amd64
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet driver: r8169
           IF: enp5s0 state: down mac: <filter>
           Device-2: Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1030 [Rainbow Peak] driver: iwlwifi
           IF: wlp9s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 74.53 GiB used: 13.90 GiB (18.7%)
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Intel model: SSDSA2CW080G3 size: 74.53 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 15.62 GiB used: 13.04 GiB (83.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 46.0 C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0
Info:      Processes: 115 Uptime: 10m Memory: 3.77 GiB used: 170.8 MiB (4.4%) Init: systemd Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.32

Boot log and dmesg output attached.

Thanks for any advice.
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Re: Dell Inspiron boot problems, kernels 5.1.1 and 5.1.2
« Reply #1 on: 2019/05/15, 15:20:24 »
Try boot with audit=0 as kernel parameter.
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Re: Dell Inspiron boot problems, kernels 5.1.1 and 5.1.2
« Reply #2 on: 2019/05/15, 16:10:08 »
No, audit=0 does not help. The "FAILURE" messages look the same. Here is the full boot line in /etc/default/grub:

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GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet resume=UUID=610eb1c9-be26-4bf8-a11e-6886dd2c6200 systemd.show_status=1 audit=0"
(and I did run update-grub)

I noticed one more thing. After I login as root, I see this message while it is halted waiting for the prompt:

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Unable to get valid context for root
Below this message is the standard Debian message about no warranty, etc.

Edit: ggogle search indicates this "unable to get context" message is from selinux.  But I have never used selinux and don't know anything about it.
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Re: Dell Inspiron boot problems, kernels 5.1.1 and 5.1.2
« Reply #3 on: 2019/05/15, 21:29:30 »
Sounds like a problem with SELinux - however, debians SELinux should be permissive and don't should introduce any problems. So i would like to suggest to remove the "quiet" from the kernel line and have a look, where it hangs - maybe a systemd-root console might be helpful to track this down.
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Re: Dell Inspiron boot problems, kernels 5.1.1 and 5.1.2
« Reply #4 on: 2019/05/15, 22:24:53 »
Same problem with the third 5.1 kernel released today.

Good suggestion -- I will remove "quiet" and "audit=0" and post again with anything useful.
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Re: Dell Inspiron boot problems, kernels 5.1.1 and 5.1.2
« Reply #5 on: 2019/05/16, 23:39:56 »
Booting both 5.1.2 and 5.1.3 I have tried "systemctl status" on some of the failed services.  Here they are:

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● accounts-daemon.service - Accounts Service
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/accounts-daemon.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Wed 2019-05-15 17:42:06 EDT; 6min ago
  Process: 612 ExecStart=/usr/lib/accountsservice/accounts-daemon (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 612 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

May 15 17:40:33 n5110 systemd[1]: Starting Accounts Service...
May 15 17:42:06 n5110 systemd[1]: accounts-daemon.service: Start operation timed out. Terminating.
May 15 17:42:06 n5110 systemd[1]: accounts-daemon.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
May 15 17:42:06 n5110 systemd[1]: Failed to start Accounts Service.

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● systemd-logind.service - Login Service
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-logind.service; static; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: deactivating (stop-sigterm) (Result: timeout)
     Docs: man:systemd-logind.service(8)
           man:logind.conf(5)
           https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/logind
           https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/multiseat
 Main PID: 19923 (systemd-logind)
   Status: "Shutting down..."
    Tasks: 1 (limit: 4550)
   Memory: 1.4M
   CGroup: /system.slice/systemd-logind.service
           └─19923 /lib/systemd/systemd-logind

May 15 17:51:07 n5110 systemd[1]: Starting Login Service...
May 15 17:51:07 n5110 systemd-logind[19923]: New seat seat0.
May 15 17:51:07 n5110 systemd-logind[19923]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event4 (Power Button)
May 15 17:51:07 n5110 systemd-logind[19923]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event2 (Power Button)
May 15 17:51:07 n5110 systemd-logind[19923]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event1 (Lid Switch)
May 15 17:51:07 n5110 systemd-logind[19923]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event3 (Sleep Button)
May 15 17:51:07 n5110 systemd-logind[19923]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event0 (AT Translated Set 2 keyboard)
May 15 17:52:37 n5110 systemd[1]: systemd-logind.service: Start operation timed out. Terminating.

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● rtkit-daemon.service - RealtimeKit Scheduling Policy Service
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/rtkit-daemon.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Thu 2019-05-16 17:04:12 EDT; 10min ago
  Process: 623 ExecStart=/usr/libexec/rtkit-daemon (code=killed, signal=TERM)
 Main PID: 623 (code=killed, signal=TERM)

May 16 17:02:41 n5110 systemd[1]: Starting RealtimeKit Scheduling Policy Service...
May 16 17:04:12 n5110 systemd[1]: rtkit-daemon.service: Start operation timed out. Terminating.
May 16 17:04:12 n5110 systemd[1]: rtkit-daemon.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=15/TERM
May 16 17:04:12 n5110 systemd[1]: rtkit-daemon.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
May 16 17:04:12 n5110 systemd[1]: Failed to start RealtimeKit Scheduling Policy Service.

Interesting that

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systemctl status udisks2.service
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systemctl start udisdks2.service
fail silently.
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Re: Dell Inspiron boot problems, kernels 5.1.1 and 5.1.2
« Reply #6 on: 2019/05/17, 01:23:09 »
@dibl - i could build you a new iso - if it starts it isn't a kernel problem :P
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Re: Dell Inspiron boot problems, kernels 5.1.1 and 5.1.2
« Reply #7 on: 2019/05/17, 02:07:44 »
Hi Alf -- I am booting and running 5.0.14 with no problems.  But, if you want to test an ISO, I am happy to give it a try.  ;-)
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