Hi Guix,
Sometime in the past few months my Guix machine has started taking a *very*
long time to boot-up. I mean quite long, in that getting to the GRUB menu takes
literally 15 minutes (I timed it, and mean an actual literal 15 minutes, not
using exaggeration here), and then after that it still takes a minute or two to
go into the regular boot sequence. After that, the system behaves normally,
with no slowness — it's only the boot that's abnormally slow.
And it wasn't always like this; I've only had this issue on this machine in the
past few months.
Further system details:
The (unencrypted) root partition (`/dev/sda4' mounted as `/') is an XFS
file-system, and there is also an EFI an ext4 partition (`/dev/sda1' mounted as
`/boot/efi').
Again, the root/boot drive is unencrypted. (On an earlier Guix machine a few
years back I had fulldisk encryption with LUKS, but this was a bit slow to
unlock during boot, but on order of 2-3 minutes and not 15(!). But I decided
for this machine to only have `/home' be encrypted and leave the system
partition unencrypted in order to speed up boot.... which worked for a
while....until of course the issue reference in this email started.)
I've had the same issue running 6.12 and 6.13 kernels (and maybe 6.11, though I
can't remember).
Other potential relevant `operating-system' configuration includes:
,----
| (operating-system
| (kernel linux-6.13)
| (kernel-arguments
| (cons* "modprobe.blacklist=pcspkr,snd_pcsp"
| "psmouse.proto=imps"
| "acpi_osi=Linux"
| "thinkpad_acpi.fan_control=1"
| %default-kernel-arguments))
| (initrd microcode-initrd)
| (firmware (list linux-firmware))
| (locale "en_GB.utf8")
| (timezone "America/Denver")
| (keyboard-layout (keyboard-layout "us"))
| (host-name "thinkguix")
| (users (cons* (user-account
| (name "emacsomancer")
| (comment "E. Max O'Mancer")
| (group "users")
| (home-directory "/home/emacsomancer")
| (supplementary-groups
| '("wheel" "netdev" "audio" "video" "adbusers")))
| %base-user-accounts))
| (groups (append (list (user-group (name "adbusers"))) %base-groups))
| ....
`----
I'm not sure what would cause this sort of issue, so I'm not sure where to
look. (But it's quite frustrating for (re)boots of the system take over 15
minutes!)
Is it likely to be something that's changed in Guix that interacts with my
`config.scm'? Something to do with the physical hardware? (I haven't changed
any of the physical components; and I don't have any reason to think there's
anything wrong with root/boot SSD drive otherwise.) I'm really not sure how to
debug here.
thanks,
—Benjamin
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