# The booting movie (gdm's autologin)

**URL:** <https://forums.sifive.com/t/the-booting-movie-gdms-autologin/4817>\
**Category:** HiFive Unmatched\
**Created:** [June 16, 2021, 7:38pm UTC](https://forums.sifive.com/t/the-booting-movie-gdms-autologin/4817 "2021-06-16T19:38:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![tyokai](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.sifive.com/tyokai/32/1315_2.png) [@tyokai](https://forums.sifive.com/u/tyokai)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2021, 7:38pm UTC](https://forums.sifive.com/t/the-booting-movie-gdms-autologin/4817/1 "2021-06-16T19:38:38Z")

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i iuse nvme & gdm’s autologin (the video card is RX550).  
my desktop is xfce4 .

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/YI5vtWcwKr0/hqdefault.jpg "hifive unmatched booting using NVME and gdm's autologin") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI5vtWcwKr0)

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**Author:** ![qz3fwd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/77aa72/32.png) [@qz3fwd](https://forums.sifive.com/u/qz3fwd)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2021, 11:14pm UTC](https://forums.sifive.com/t/the-booting-movie-gdms-autologin/4817/2 "2021-06-21T23:14:55Z")

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Thanks for the video. That is a long boot up time. Like windows 15 years ago slow!

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**Author:** ![tyokai](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.sifive.com/tyokai/32/1315_2.png) [@tyokai](https://forums.sifive.com/u/tyokai)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2021, 1:54am UTC](https://forums.sifive.com/t/the-booting-movie-gdms-autologin/4817/3 "2021-06-22T01:54:03Z")

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slow , but we can boot Linux GUI .

the speed is not important ,  
the optimisation is the next step , so i think .

2021年6月22日(火) 8:24 qz3fwd via SiFive Forums \<[sifive@discoursemail.com](mailto:sifive@discoursemail.com)\>:

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**Author:** ![bruce](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.sifive.com/bruce/32/452_2.png) [@bruce](https://forums.sifive.com/u/bruce)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 1:17am UTC](https://forums.sifive.com/t/the-booting-movie-gdms-autologin/4817/4 "2021-06-23T01:17:17Z")

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Based on the CPU spec, it’s 20 years old x86 so 15 is a great result!

Using Linux and a lightweight GUI does help. Gnome is quite a bit slower.

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**Author:** ![tyokai](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.sifive.com/tyokai/32/1315_2.png) [@tyokai](https://forums.sifive.com/u/tyokai)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 8:29pm UTC](https://forums.sifive.com/t/the-booting-movie-gdms-autologin/4817/5 "2021-06-23T20:29:13Z")

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i think the following line slows the booting process about 10 seconds .

 ![slow-2](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/sifive/original/2X/9/9decd676aae5a54817256cd4cb2c829e688b9a09.jpeg)

is there any idea to cope with it ?

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regards

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**Author:** ![forksand](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.sifive.com/forksand/32/469_2.png) [@forksand](https://forums.sifive.com/u/forksand)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2021, 4:12pm UTC](https://forums.sifive.com/t/the-booting-movie-gdms-autologin/4817/6 "2021-06-24T16:12:23Z")

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If I’m reading it correctly, the system shutdown uncleanly, so when it boots back up, it has to do a file system check (`fsck`). A `fsck` can be slow in sd card. To prevent it from happening, make sure your system shuts down cleanly, perhaps with `shutdown now -h` .

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**Author:** ![tyokai](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.sifive.com/tyokai/32/1315_2.png) [@tyokai](https://forums.sifive.com/u/tyokai)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2021, 3:25am UTC](https://forums.sifive.com/t/the-booting-movie-gdms-autologin/4817/7 "2021-06-27T03:25:36Z")

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i tried several times .

now  
./comment-out.bat /etc/systemd/journald.conf  
[Journal]  
SystemMaxUse=10M

then

 ![1](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/sifive/original/2X/e/e3959a499d58794d74087f9ca64082933f08930c.jpeg)

but

# journalctl --no-pager | grep -e ‘err’

6月 27 05:37:10 ubuntu /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[1682]: (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.  
6月 27 05:37:11 ubuntu /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[1682]: (II) AMDGPU(0): First detailed timing is preferred mode  
6月 27 05:37:24 ubuntu xfwm4[1857]: Failed to connect to session manager: セッションマネージャーへの接続に失敗しました: IO error occured opening connection  
6月 27 05:37:24 ubuntu xfwm4[1857]: xfwm4: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :1.  
6月 27 05:37:52 ubuntu /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[2269]: (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.  
6月 27 05:37:53 ubuntu /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[2269]: (II) AMDGPU(0): First detailed timing is preferred mode  
6月 27 05:37:59 ubuntu xfwm4[2443]: xfwm4: Fatal IO error 0 (Success) on X server :1.  
6月 27 05:38:20 ubuntu /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[2491]: (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.  
6月 27 05:38:21 ubuntu /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[2491]: (II) AMDGPU(0): First detailed timing is preferred mode  
6月 27 05:38:27 ubuntu xfwm4[2666]: xfwm4: Fatal IO error 0 (Success) on X server :1.  
6月 27 05:39:09 ubuntu xfce4-screensav[1284]: xfce4-screensaver: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.  
6月 27 12:02:27 ubuntu systemd[1]: Condition check resulted in Process error reports when automatic reporting is enabled (file watch) being skipped.  
6月 27 12:02:31 ubuntu /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[878]: (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.  
6月 27 12:02:33 ubuntu /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[878]: (II) AMDGPU(0): First detailed timing is preferred mode

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regards
