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Massive delay of booting up extremely common on Xia 22.1

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Description

Distribution

Mint 22.1

Package version

5.6.4

Graphics hardware in use

Intel

Frequency

Quite often

Bug description

I have a massive delay in booting after upgrading to Xia. And I'm not alone, there's a big problem with this new bug all over the official forum: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewforum.php?f=46

For me, the culprit seems to be the Broadcom sta driver (proprietary), for others is nvidia's drivers, for others something else. Something changed in Xia that it created a race condition to delay the boot up sequence. For me it was 3 minutes (while it used to take 40 seconds), and for others went up to 7 minutes of wait time!

Please look at this bug, because it's affecting a lot of people. More debug info on the various forum threads about it.

Steps to reproduce

boot up system

Expected behavior

to boot up fast

Additional information

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reproducing the boot delay on Mint 22.1 with Cinnamon 5.6.4 and Intel graphics, then compare the normal 40-second boot with the reported multi-minute delay. Investigate the reported Broadcom STA and NVIDIA driver cases and review the linked forum threads for debug information. Done means identifying the changed boot sequence or race condition and restoring fast booting.

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Assessment

Tech stack
linux
Domain
operating-systems
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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