Mercury neo -- weird boot up

[gruen]

just installed mercury as virtual machine.

when booting up the system remains for about 2 minutes on ‘reached target Graphical Interface’
no error report - then the start screen appears and everything works well

any idea what happens or what to do?

[thefrog]

you can check your journal and see if there is anything in there maybe check
systemd-analyze blame and see what information it can tell you.

[gruen]

no indication of an issue

but I found out a likely reason —> wayland
using Xorg doesn’t show the behavior

[nula]

Noticed it today as well. I can only login using X, wayland is not listed as choice at all. Both login and logout are unusually long.

[elatllat]

This is a Regression: GNOME falls back to X11 after Wayland times out (fresh install in KVM).

sudo journalctl -b

Will show the issue:

...
Apr 25 09:37:08 EndeavourOS gnome-shell[622]: Running GNOME Shell (using mutter 48.2) as a Wayland display server
Apr 25 09:37:08 EndeavourOS avahi-daemon[474]: Server startup complete. Host name is EndeavourOS.local. Local service cookie is 988154112.
Apr 25 09:37:08 EndeavourOS systemd[1]: Starting RealtimeKit Scheduling Policy Service...
Apr 25 09:37:08 EndeavourOS systemd[1]: Started RealtimeKit Scheduling Policy Service.
Apr 25 09:37:08 EndeavourOS rtkit-daemon[649]: Successfully called chroot.
Apr 25 09:37:08 EndeavourOS rtkit-daemon[649]: Successfully dropped privileges.
Apr 25 09:37:08 EndeavourOS rtkit-daemon[649]: Successfully limited resources.
Apr 25 09:37:08 EndeavourOS rtkit-daemon[649]: Canary thread running.
Apr 25 09:37:08 EndeavourOS rtkit-daemon[649]: Running.
Apr 25 09:37:08 EndeavourOS rtkit-daemon[649]: Watchdog thread running.
Apr 25 09:37:08 EndeavourOS rtkit-daemon[649]: Supervising 0 threads of 0 processes of 0 users.
Apr 25 09:37:08 EndeavourOS rtkit-daemon[649]: Successfully made thread 648 of process 622 owned by '1000' high priority at nice level -15. 
Apr 25 09:37:08 EndeavourOS rtkit-daemon[649]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Apr 25 09:37:08 EndeavourOS gnome-shell[622]: Thread 'KMS thread' will be using high priority scheduling
Apr 25 09:37:08 EndeavourOS gnome-shell[622]: libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen
Apr 25 09:37:08 EndeavourOS gnome-shell[622]: MESA: error: ZINK: vkCreateInstance failed (VK_ERROR_INCOMPATIBLE_DRIVER)
Apr 25 09:37:17 EndeavourOS systemd[1]: NetworkManager-dispatcher.service: Deactivated successfully.
Apr 25 09:37:38 EndeavourOS systemd-timesyncd[378]: Contacted time server 54.39.17.239:123 (2.arch.pool.ntp.org).
Apr 25 09:37:38 EndeavourOS systemd-timesyncd[378]: Initial clock synchronization to Fri 2025-04-25 09:37:38.262785 EDT. 
Apr 25 09:37:38 EndeavourOS systemd[1]: systemd-hostnamed.service: Deactivated successfully.
Apr 25 09:37:41 EndeavourOS systemd[1]: Starting Rotate log files...
Apr 25 09:37:41 EndeavourOS systemd[1]: logrotate.service: Deactivated successfully.
Apr 25 09:37:41 EndeavourOS systemd[1]: Finished Rotate log files.
Apr 25 09:38:39 EndeavourOS systemd[542]: org.gnome.Shell@wayland.service: start operation timed out. Terminating.
...