Slow boot

[sunrat]

If it's still taking over 1.5 minutes to boot, I reckon something is weird with your hardware. Your dmesg shows it stalling for a minute while loading USB devices. Remove them or swap them for different ones.

[dragonball]

I came from Void Linux. I didn't ever had any problem with boot. Actually was very fast. And I didn't touch anything on my hardware or my uefi settings. Strange because all my usb devices are my mouse, my keyboard and an internal usb hub which connects my cases usb ports. (This is a patent because i use mini itx with small case and mobo doesn't have pins for cases usb ports but has internal usb!)

[L_V]

1 - Did you analyze with systemd-bootchart ? (Debian package)

2 - plot.svg ? (see my previous message)

[dragonball]

This is my boot graph: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eclG0x ... sp=sharing

[L_V]

.... firmware ... : to be clarified.
Bootloader ? Which one ? Did you add any boot options ?
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lscpu | grep name
uname -a

+ for test, can you try to add single as kernel option in loader to see what happen ?

[dragonball]

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george@Debian:~$ lscpu | grep name
Model name:          Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1270 v6 @ 3.80GHz
george@Debian:~$ uname -a
Linux Debian 4.19.0-5-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.37-5+deb10u1 (2019-07-19) x86_64 GNU/Linux

The default from the install. I didn't change anything. All my settings on my motherboard are in UEFI mode.

Also I add single parameter after quiet and I booted. Took the same time but dropped me in rescue mode.

[L_V]

Also I add single parameter after quiet and I booted..

Without quiet !! (forgot to tell) : you will see what really happen. (may be this is the "rescue mode" / I don't use default loader to confirm)
Is intel-microcode installed ?

[dragonball]

Exactly the same as the photo in the first page. Waiting on 4 ports detected. Also intel-microcode is installed

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george@Debian:~$ dpkg -l | grep intel-microcode
ii  intel-microcode                       3.20190618.1                    amd64        Processor microcode firmware for Intel CPUs

[L_V]

Waiting on 4 ports detected.

What are these ports ?

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lsusb

[dragonball]

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george@Debian:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 2109:0812 VIA Labs, Inc. VL812 Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 2109:2812 VIA Labs, Inc. VL812 Hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 258a:001f  
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 045e:0084 Microsoft Corp. Basic Optical Mouse
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 258a:001f ? Seems strange. Here I don't see my keyboard listed. Kernel identifies it as SINO

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george@Debian:~$ sudo dmesg | grep SINO
[sudo] password for george: 
[    2.143151] usb 1-4: Manufacturer: SINO WEALTH
[    2.146906] input: SINO WEALTH Mechanical Keyboard as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/0003:258A:001F.0002/input/input1
[    2.205471] hid-generic 0003:258A:001F.0002: input,hidraw1: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [SINO WEALTH Mechanical Keyboard] on usb-0000:00:14.0-4/input0
[    2.209304] input: SINO WEALTH Mechanical Keyboard Keyboard as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.1/0003:258A:001F.0003/input/input2
[    2.269332] input: SINO WEALTH Mechanical Keyboard Consumer Control as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.1/0003:258A:001F.0003/input/input3
[    2.271376] hid-generic 0003:258A:001F.0003: input,hiddev0,hidraw2: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [SINO WEALTH Mechanical Keyboard] on usb-0000:00:14.0-4/input1

Also I rebooted without mouse and keyboard with the same result

[L_V]

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# dmesg | grep 258a

+ if you have another keyboard to try....
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lsmod | grep usb

[dragonball]

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 sudo dmesg | grep 258a
[sudo] password for george: 
[  124.172180] usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=258a, idProduct=001f, bcdDevice= 6.27

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george@Debian:~$ lsmod | grep usb
usbhid                 57344  0
hid                   135168  2 usbhid,hid_generic
usbcore               290816  3 xhci_hcd,usbhid,xhci_pci
usb_common             16384  1 usbcore

[L_V]

something around xhci_hcd
I have this

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usbcore               290816  8 ohci_hcd,ehci_pci,usbnet,usbhid,rndis_host,ehci_hcd,ohci_pci,cdc_ether
usb_common             16384  1 usbcore

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find /etc/modprobe.d/ -type f -exec grep -v "#" {} \;

[dragonball]

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find /etc/modprobe.d/ -type f -exec grep -v "#" {} \;
alias char-major-195* nvidia
blacklist microcode

[L_V]

Something around USB 3.0.
For testing/investigation, I would blacklist xhci_hcd , and load ohci_hcd ehci_hcd in /etc/initramfs-tools/modules.

Can you try

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sudo modprobe ohci_hcd
sudo modprobe ehci_hcd
sudo modprobe -r xhci_hcd
lsmod | grep usb

risk of necessary hard reboot , but cannot test for you !

+ maybe some BIOS investigation about USB

[dragonball]

Small progress

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lsmod | grep usb
usbhid                 57344  0
hid                   135168  2 usbhid,hid_generic
usbcore               290816  5 xhci_hcd,ohci_hcd,usbhid,ehci_hcd,xhci_pci
usb_common             16384  1 usbcore

But still cannot disable xhci_hcd.

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george@Debian:~$ more /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf 
blacklist xhci_hcd

Also this are my bios settings but disabling XHCI Hand-off didn't change anything

[L_V]

Then.....

For testing/investigation, I would blacklist xhci_hcd , and load ohci_hcd ehci_hcd in /etc/initramfs-tools/modules.

Do you know how to do this ?
/!\ this is at risk if you don't know how to recover.
Then, don't do it if not familiar with.

[dragonball]

The first step I found it. I add this lines in /etc/initramfs-tools/modules

ohci_hcd
ehci_hcd

After that i updated initramfs with

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update-initramfs -u

But I cannot blacklist xhci_hcd

[L_V]

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lsinitramfs /initrd.img | grep "etc/modprobe.d/"
cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

[dragonball]

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lsinitramfs /initrd.img | grep "etc/modprobe.d/"
etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
etc/modprobe.d/dkms.conf
etc/modprobe.d/intel-microcode-blacklist.conf
etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-blacklists-nouveau.conf
etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-kernel-common.conf
etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf

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george@Debian:~$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
blacklist xhci_hcd