Fedora 44: Some programs take unreasonable amount of time to start

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Hello,

I am using a fresh install of Fedora 44 (did not upgrade from a previous version), and I noticed, since the install, that many programs like vscode, chrome, obs take more than 20 seconds sometimes 30 seconds to start. I did not experience this with previous versions until 44. I also want to precise that the issue has nothing to do with a lack of resources (RAM or CPU) as there is enough to use those programs.

Anybody experiencing something similar ?

I am wondering if there is anything I can do to debug the issue.

Thanks in advance.

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In some recent cases where we’ve seen this, the reason turned out to be that Fedora had been installed onto a spinning HDD rather than an SSD.

So a good first check is to look at lsblk -f and make sure you installed onto the disk you intended to.

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I don’t have any HDD, just one SSD, but I am using LUKS, could that have something to do with this ? I have already been using LUKS in another computer with Fedora 43, without seeing similar issues.

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No LUKS will not be the cause.

What apps are slow to start up?

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For example:

  • virtual studio code => it takes about 20 seconds
  • OBS => it takes more than one minute
  • Google Chrome, but only when run the first time. It also happens if I run google-chrome from a terminal
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by the way, after the waiting, I see the following when running Google chrome from a terminal:

MESA: error: ZINK: vkQueueWaitIdle failed (VK_ERROR_DEVICE_LOST)
MESA: error: ZINK: vkQueueWaitIdle failed (VK_ERROR_DEVICE_LOST)
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Thanks. For both Google chrome and OBS Studio, this is the syscall that hangs:

ioctl(52, DRM_IOCTL_NOUVEAU_GEM_NEW, 0x7ffcd3f14300)

could this be related to the GPU driver ? If I am not mistaken Nouveau is the default graphic driver. I am currently using an NVIDA graphic card.

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Have you installed the RPMfusion nvidia drivers for your GPU?
If not then try with them installed and see if that is the fix.

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Sorry for the late response. I was trying to fix the NVIDIA driver issues. I missed the part you mentionned about RPMfusion so I used the official NVIDIA driver at first: Fedora — NVIDIA Driver Installation Guide, but that caused issues for the second built-in graphic card. the UI started lagging and responding slow. I am gonna try the RPM fusion. I can confirm that the issue with the programs taking to long time to start disappeared. Thanks for the suggestion.