Ubuntu Start up issue

[cperciba]

I have only Lubuntu distro installed on my laptop (SSD /dev/nvme0n1):

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.10
Release: 20.10
Codename: groovy

During the Start Up the O.S. freezes if external HDD /dev/sdb1 is physically unplugged.
Could you help me ?

more information below :

[email protected]:~$ sudo parted -l
[sudo] password di claudio:
Modello: ATA HGST HTS721010A9 (scsi)
Disco /dev/sda: 1000GB
Dimensione del settore (logica/fisica): 512B/4096B
Tabella delle partizioni: gpt
Flag del disco:

Numero Inizio Fine Dimensione File system Nome Flag
1 1049kB 1000GB 1000GB ntfs msftdata


Modello: ASMT 2105 (scsi)
Disco /dev/sdb: 2000GB
Dimensione del settore (logica/fisica): 512B/4096B
Tabella delle partizioni: msdos
Flag del disco:

Numero Inizio Fine Dimensione Tipo File system Flag
1 1049kB 2000GB 2000GB primary ntfs


Modello: SAMSUNG MZVLW256HEHP-000H1 (nvme)
Disco /dev/nvme0n1: 256GB
Dimensione del settore (logica/fisica): 512B/512B
Tabella delle partizioni: gpt
Flag del disco:

Numero Inizio Fine Dimensione File system Nome Flag
1 2097kB 317MB 315MB fat32 avvio, esp
2 317MB 256GB 256GB ext4


Thank you

 

[kc1di]

Boot to the desktop and go to a terminal and type these commands and post the outputs back here.

inxi -Fxxxzr
systemd-analyze blame

I suspect that the system is looking for the disconected HDD and can't find it so it freezes.

 

[cperciba]

Outout of inxi :

[email protected]:~$ inxi -Fxxxzr
System: Kernel: 5.11.0-44-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 Desktop: LXQt 0.16.1 info: lxqt-panel
wm: Openbox 3.6.1 dm: SDDM Distro: Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)
Machine: Type: Laptop System: HP product: OMEN by HP Laptop v: Type1ProductConfigId serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10
serial: <filter>
Mobo: HP model: 8259 v: 83.45 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: F.35 date: 01/23/2017
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 46.3 Wh condition: 50.3/50.3 Wh (100%) volts: 16.8/15.4 model: Hewlett-Packard Primary
type: Li-ion serial: N/A status: Unknown
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech M350 Wireless Mouse serial: <filter> charge: 100% (should be ignored)
rechargeable: yes status: Discharging
CPU: Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-7700HQ bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake rev: 9 L2 cache: 6 MiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 44798
Speed: 900 MHz min/max: 800/3800 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 900 2: 900 3: 900 4: 900 5: 900 6: 900 7: 900 8: 900
Graphics: Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 630 vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:591b
class ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: nouveau v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0
chip ID: 10de:1c8d class ID: 0302
Device-3: Sunplus Innovation HP Wide Vision HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus ID: 1-4:3 chip ID: 1bcf:2c87
class ID: 0e02
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
s-dpi: 96
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 630 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.0.3 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel CM238 HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3
chip ID: 8086:a171 class ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA GP107GL High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 10de:0fb9
class ID: 0403
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.11.0-44-generic
Network: Device-1: Intel Wireless 7265 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: 4000 bus ID: 04:00.0 chip ID: 8086:095a
class ID: 0280
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel
port: 3000 bus ID: 05:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8168 class ID: 0200
IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth: Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus ID: 1-7:5 chip ID: 8087:0a2a
class ID: e001
Report: ID: hci0 state: up running pscan bt-v: 2.1 lmp-v: 4.2 sub-v: 1000 hci-v: 4.2 rev: 1000 address: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 2.96 TiB used: 1.52 TiB (51.2%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZVLW256HEHP-000H1 size: 238.47 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4
rotation: SSD serial: <filter> rev: CXB70H1Q temp: 35.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: HGST (Hitachi) model: HTS721010A9E630 size: 931.51 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm
serial: <filter> rev: A3T0 scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Seagate model: ST2000DM001-1ER164 size: 1.82 TiB rotation: 7200 rpm
serial: <filter> scheme: MBR
Partition: ID-1: / size: 233.43 GiB used: 61.53 GiB (26.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 299.4 MiB used: 5.2 MiB (1.7%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap: Alert: No Swap data was found.
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 68.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 47.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos: Packages: 2389 apt: 2379 snap: 10
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
1: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hirsute main restricted
2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hirsute-updates main restricted
3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hirsute universe
4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hirsute-updates universe
5: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hirsute multiverse
6: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hirsute-updates multiverse
7: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-security main restricted
8: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-security universe
9: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-security multiverse
10: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hirsute-backports main restricted universe multiverse
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gezakovacs-ubuntu-ppa-groovy.list
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kirillshkrogalev-ubuntu-ffmpeg-next-groovy.list
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mc3man-ubuntu-mpv-tests-groovy.list
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nilarimogard-ubuntu-webupd8-groovy.list
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/obsproject-ubuntu-obs-studio-groovy.list
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teams.list
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teamviewer.list
Info: Processes: 321 Uptime: 1m wakeups: 3 Memory: 15.52 GiB used: 2.41 GiB (15.5%) Init: systemd v: 247 runlevel: 5
Compilers: gcc: 10.3.0 alt: 10 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 running in: qterminal inxi: 3.3.01

Output of systemd-analyze blame :

[email protected]:~$ systemd-analyze blame
9.604s NetworkManager-wait-online.service
4.244s apparmor.service
3.874s dev-nvme0n1p2.device
1.887s media-claudio-DATI.mount
1.645s snapd.apparmor.service
1.335s snapd.service
1.015s snap-teams-5.mount
1.014s snap-skype-194.mount
993ms snap-skype-197.mount
908ms snap-core18-2246.mount
839ms snap-gnome\x2d3\x2d28\x2d1804-161.mount
635ms snap-gtk\x2dcommon\x2dthemes-1519.mount
630ms snap-teams-6.mount
463ms snap-snapd-14295.mount
436ms dev-loop1.device
434ms dev-loop0.device
430ms snap-gnome\x2d3\x2d28\x2d1804-145.mount
392ms snap-bare-5.mount
378ms snap-snapd-14066.mount
372ms dev-loop2.device
331ms dev-loop5.device
329ms dev-loop6.device
325ms blueman-mechanism.service
317ms dev-loop3.device
315ms dev-loop4.device
290ms media-claudio-BKP.mount
289ms snap-core-11993.mount
281ms udisks2.service
281ms systemd-journal-flush.service
278ms dev-loop11.device
250ms dev-loop7.device
248ms upower.service
243ms cups.service
231ms [email protected]
230ms snap-chromium-1854.mount
206ms dev-loop9.device
203ms snap-core18-2253.mount
200ms snap-gtk\x2dcommon\x2dthemes-1515.mount
193ms accounts-daemon.service
193ms networkd-dispatcher.service
155ms snap-chromium-1864.mount
154ms snap-core-11798.mount
150ms dev-loop8.device
127ms systemd-resolved.service
114ms bluetooth.service
113ms avahi-daemon.service
110ms NetworkManager.service
109ms dev-loop14.device
106ms ModemManager.service
104ms dundee.service
104ms iio-sensor-proxy.service
103ms polkit.service
100ms dev-loop10.device
98ms systemd-timesyncd.service
97ms snapd.seeded.service
96ms systemd-udev-trigger.service
94ms ofono.service
93ms dev-loop13.device
93ms dev-loop12.device
86ms thermald.service
84ms systemd-logind.service
83ms wpa_supplicant.service
78ms virtualbox.service
72ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
72ms lvm2-monitor.service
65ms systemd-journald.service
65ms gpu-manager.service
65ms apport.service
59ms keyboard-setup.service
56ms systemd-udevd.service
55ms e2scrub_reap.service
53ms secureboot-db.service
51ms lm-sensors.service
49ms grub-common.service
45ms alsa-restore.service
44ms plymouth-quit.service
44ms teamviewerd.service
35ms grub-initrd-fallback.service
32ms systemd-modules-load.service
28ms colord.service
28ms packagekit.service
26ms rsyslog.service
22ms dev-loop15.device
19ms plymouth-start.service
18ms setvtrgb.service
16ms kerneloops.service
16ms pppd-dns.service
15ms dev-hugepages.mount
14ms [email protected]\x2duuid-4A21\x2dF0E4.service
14ms dev-mqueue.mount
14ms sys-kernel-debug.mount
13ms sys-kernel-tracing.mount
12ms systemd-random-seed.service
12ms plymouth-read-write.service
11ms systemd-rfkill.service
11ms [email protected]
10ms systemd-sysctl.service
10ms kmod-static-nodes.service
9ms [email protected]
8ms systemd-sysusers.service
8ms [email protected]
8ms [email protected]
7ms systemd-remount-fs.service
7ms systemd-update-utmp.service
7ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
6ms hddtemp.service
6ms boot-efi.mount
6ms [email protected]:intel_backlight.service
5ms systemd-update-utmp-runlevel.service
5ms systemd-user-sessions.service
4ms ufw.service
4ms sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount
4ms sys-kernel-config.mount
3ms dev-loop16.device
3ms rtkit-daemon.service
3ms console-setup.service
3ms sddm.service
747us snapd.socket
91us blk-availability.service

 

[kc1di]

I believe the problem may be your Nvidia card. It list Nouveau for the driver. With that driver you may need to add nomodeset to the grub boot line to keep it from freezing during boot or install the correct Nvidia driver for that card.
This page may be of help.

 

[KGIII]

Just to make sure I'm understanding...

It only freezes if there's no external drive plugged in?

You're also using Groovy (20.10)?

For starters, support for 20.10 in June of 2021 - going on a year ago.

 

[cperciba]

Just to make sure I'm understanding...

It only freezes if there's no external drive plugged in?

You're also using Groovy (20.10)?

For starters, support for 20.10 in June of 2021 - going on a year ago.

Yes, It only freeze if there's no external drive plugged in.
I've just upgraded to hirsute (21.04) and the issue persists.

 

[cperciba]

I believe the problem may be your Nvidia card. It list Nouveau for the driver. With that driver you may need to add nomodeset to the grub boot line to keep it from freezing during boot or install the correct Nvidia driver for that card.
This page may be of help.

I do not understand the correlation between the fact that the computer does not start when the external hard drive is unplugged and the video card driver.
Thanx

 

[Brickwizard]

I don't think it's related to your boot problem, but PCI card has the wrong driver installed
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel

addendum.. just to add your Omen laptop is not made by HP but by Shenzhen Bmorn Technology Co. Ltd in China, we have had problems with some of their other out branded laptops

 

[DexTheDog]

Might be worth removing the card and rebooting.

 

[KGIII]

This leads me to think this is likely a grub issue - perhaps an fstab issue, but the latter seems less likely.

I'm really bad at diagnosing grub problems, but someone here is likely better than I.

Take this command and be sure to wrap the output in code tags when you post it here. Or maybe spoiler. Or maybe both.

cat /boot/grub/grub.cfg