Hello again, On Wednesday, June 1st, 2022 at 19:55, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > So it has to do with elogind taking too long to start. Same with > polkit: Timeouts are common here... > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > > 854:May 31 12:24:10 localhost polkitd[426]: Started polkitd version 0.120 > 925:May 31 12:24:31 localhost shepherd[1]: [dbus-daemon] ** (accounts-daemon:421): CRITICAL **: 12:24:28.105: error getting polkit authority: Error initializing authority: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1: Timeout was reached > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > Now, something’s wrong with those timestamps, where shepherd’s message, > which came first, has a timestamp in the future. Ooh... > Could it be https://issues.guix.gnu.org/55707? At boot time, if you > switch to tty12 (by pressing alt-f12) as soon as it’s available, do you > see messages that get printed pretty slowly, like 4–5 lines per second? Maybe? I recorded a video. Image is low quality, but speed is accurate (I changed to tty12 at second 33): https://luis-felipe.gitlab.io/media/2022/06/guix-system-ab98b51e-boot-TTY12.webm At 01:57, it takes a while to start GDM session (that's common; always been like that, I think). > Sorry for not having clearer ideas, but maybe we have a lead… No worries, thanks again for taking a look at it.