Hello, I am having an issue with my garuda linux install. Upon logging in, whether that be on wayland or x11, i am greeted with a blinking tty and occasionally the rare [ OK ] indicating that it finished a process, after logging in. About 30 seconds later it gives me the DE for roughly a minute and logs me out, most of the time to a black screen, and sometimes to the log in menu.
I’m not certain on this but I believe it might be tied to my external hard drive which I’ve encrypted with LUKS. I believe this is the case because the issue sprung up about the same day I did so, as far as I can remember (I’ve been brushing this off for a while now). I’ve tried following some guides online to help me mount it at boot through crypttab and fstab all to no avail.
The issue only happens on initial log in after booting, and sometimes the second log in, on both Wayland and X11, and doesnt happen again as long as the system is on. Unplugging the device at boot makes no difference, and changing the mounting settings from KDE settings in Disks and Cameras makes no difference as well. The encrypted external hard drive is plugged in 90% of the time and leaves the house sometimes, hence why I encrypted it.
Please let me know how I can help you diagnose this issue, as I dont know where to start to be honest, I’ve been on linux for roughly 4 months now. Thanks for your time!
garuda-inxi
System:
Kernel: 6.9.10-zen1-1-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.1.1
clocksource: tsc avail: acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
root=UUID=6661e2ff-52e3-4165-8d0e-c97c9468f623 rw rootflags=subvol=@
loglevel=3 ibt=off
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.1.3 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.4.0
wm: kwin_wayland with: krunner vt: 4 dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda
base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: ASUS product: N/A v: N/A serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: ROG STRIX Z490-E GAMING v: Rev 1.xx
serial: <superuser required> part-nu: SKU uuid: <superuser required>
UEFI: American Megatrends v: 3001 date: 02/19/2024
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i9-10850K bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Comet Lake
gen: core 10 level: v3 note: check built: 2020 process: Intel 14nm family: 6
model-id: 0xA5 (165) stepping: 5 microcode: 0xFA
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 10 tpc: 2 threads: 20 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 640 KiB desc: d-10x32 KiB; i-10x32 KiB L2: 2.5 MiB desc: 10x256 KiB
L3: 20 MiB desc: 1x20 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 4315 high: 4503 min/max: 800/5200 scaling:
driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 4500 2: 4501 3: 4500
4: 4498 5: 800 6: 4500 7: 4503 8: 4500 9: 4500 10: 4500 11: 4501 12: 4500
13: 4500 14: 4498 15: 4500 16: 4500 17: 4499 18: 4501 19: 4500 20: 4501
bogomips: 144000
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities: <filter>
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GA104 [GeForce RTX 3070] vendor: PNY driver: nvidia
v: 555.58.02 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 550.xx+ status: current
(as of 2024-06; EOL~2026-12-xx) arch: Ampere code: GAxxx
process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2020-2023 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s
lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s ports: active: none
off: DP-2,HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-1,DP-3 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2484
class-ID: 0300
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.13 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.1
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: nvidia gpu: nvidia
d-rect: 3889x2188 display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: DP-2 pos: bottom-l res: 1920x1080 size: N/A modes: N/A
Monitor-2: HDMI-A-1 pos: top-right res: 1969x1108 size: N/A modes: N/A
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 2
drv: swrast gbm: drv: nvidia surfaceless: drv: nvidia wayland: drv: nvidia
x11: drv: zink inactive: device-1
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 555.58.02
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070/PCIe/SSE2
memory: 7.81 GiB display-ID: :1.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.279 layers: 9 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu
name: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 driver: nvidia v: 555.58.02
device-ID: 10de:2484 surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH cAVS vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl, snd_soc_avs, snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl
bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:06c8 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA GA104 High Definition Audio vendor: PNY
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228b
class-ID: 0403
Device-3: Blue Microphones Yeti Stereo Microphone
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-7:5 chip-ID: b58e:9e84 class-ID: 0300
serial: <filter>
API: ALSA v: k6.9.10-zen1-1-zen status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.2.1 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:06f0 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlo1 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Ethernet I225-V vendor: ASUSTeK driver: igc v: kernel
pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: N/A bus-ID: 04:00.0
chip-ID: 8086:15f3 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp4s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: virbr0 state: down mac: <filter>
Info: services: NetworkManager,systemd-timesyncd
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-14:11 chip-ID: 8087:0026
class-ID: e001
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: <filter> bt-v: 5.2 lmp-v: 11
status: discoverable: no pairing: no
RAID:
Hardware-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH-H RAID driver: ahci v: 3.0 port: 4020
bus-ID: 00:17.0 chip-ID: 8086:06d6 rev: class-ID: 0104
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.25 TiB used: 446.35 GiB (35.0%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital
model: WD Blue SA510 2.5 1TB size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 0100
scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: A-Data model: SU600 size: 111.79 GiB
block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: SSD
serial: <filter> fw-rev: 1A scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: Western Digital
model: WD2500BEVT-00ZCT0 size: 232.89 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B type: USB rev: 2.0 spd: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0
tech: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> fw-rev: 1.05 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 111.49 GiB size: 111.49 GiB (100.00%)
used: 14.46 GiB (13.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sdb2 maj-min: 8:18
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 584 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17
ID-3: /home raw-size: 111.49 GiB size: 111.49 GiB (100.00%)
used: 14.46 GiB (13.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sdb2 maj-min: 8:18
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 111.49 GiB size: 111.49 GiB (100.00%)
used: 14.46 GiB (13.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sdb2 maj-min: 8:18
ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 111.49 GiB size: 111.49 GiB (100.00%)
used: 14.46 GiB (13.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sdb2 maj-min: 8:18
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 31.18 GiB used: 512 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
comp: zstd avail: lzo,lzo-rle,lz4,lz4hc,842 max-streams: 20 dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 32 GiB available: 31.18 GiB used: 6.27 GiB (20.1%)
Processes: 486 Power: uptime: 8m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
suspend, test_resume image: 12.43 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,upowerd
Init: systemd v: 256 default: graphical tool: systemctl
Packages: 1462 pm: pacman pkgs: 1437 libs: 414 tools: pamac,paru
pm: flatpak pkgs: 25 Compilers: gcc: 14.1.1 Shell: garuda-inxi default: fish
v: 3.7.1 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.35
Garuda (2.6.26-1):
System install date: 2024-06-24
Last full system update: 2024-07-21
Is partially upgraded: No
Relevant software: snapper NetworkManager dracut nvidia-dkms
Windows dual boot: No/Undetected
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