Pre login issue (Solved)

[acer]

Not having a good laptop day today..

Symptoms:
Switched laptop on, plymouth splash displays and doesn't proceed any further (just before login) for over 5 minutes,
no ssd activity at all..freezes.

1st time this happened earlier this week, I done a hard shut-down (power button for 5 seconds or so) and it was fine on restart.
I've had to do this 3 times just to log in (eventually) today.
Stumped?!

Any ideas? Help appreciated..
TIA

On a more positive note, complete re-installation of PM7 on the AO533 netbook for SWMBO without a glitch earlier. 

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[acer]

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System:    Host: HP-Laptop Kernel: 4.4.0-38-generic i686 (32 bit) Desktop: N/A
           Distro: Peppermint Seven
Machine:   System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP G60 Notebook PC v: PCID
           Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 3617 v: 09.67
           Bios: Hewlett-Packard v: F.65 date: 12/15/2010
CPU:       Dual core Intel Core2 Duo T5800 (-MCP-) cache: 2048 KB 
           clock speeds: max: 2000 MHz 1: 1600 MHz 2: 1200 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA G98M [GeForce 9200M GS]
           Display Server: X.Org 1.18.3 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1366x768@60.11hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NV98 GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 11.2.0
Audio:     Card Intel 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.4.0-38-generic
Network:   Card-1: Realtek RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller
           driver: r8169
           IF: enp2s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
           driver: ath5k
           IF: wlp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 60.0GB (14.6% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: Corsair_Force_LS size: 60.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 51G used: 4.4G (10%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 4.26GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/dm-0
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 44.0C mobo: 44.0C gpu: 45.0
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 173 Uptime: 22 min Memory: 415.7/4009.5MB
           Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.2.35 

[PCNetSpec]

When it appears to have frozen, is there anything displayed on screen if you hit the "Esc" key ?

Are there any flashing lights on the keyboard ?

and just as a matter of interest, is there any particular reason you chose the 32bit version of Peppermint 7 ?

[acer]

Hi PCNetSpec

Yeah the first thing I tried was using the ESC key and other combination keys (three finger salute) CTRL-ALT-DEL, and any key combo, absolutely no response from the system.
No flashing lights not even from the laptop SSD led indicator. 
Hard shutdown was the only way out.

Then was faced with grub menu upon start-up and chose the default grub option, and started ok the first time it did this.

32bit PM7 is primarily for a Canon Scanner (Canoscan 650U) which didn't provide 64bit drivers for windows/osx or linux last time I did research on it.

[PCNetSpec]

Next time it happens, hold Alt+SysRq and whilst holding them type r-e-i-s-u-b leaving a couple of seconds between each keystroke.

did the machine reboot ?

if not it may be a kernel panic .. though that's normally signified by flashing keyboard lights (caps lock light / numlock light)

[acer]

Next time it happens, hold Alt+SysRq and whilst holding them type r-e-i-s-u-b leaving a couple of seconds between each keystroke.

Hi PCNetSpec,
Thanks again, the system booted no problems earlier.
Have these instructions at hand (written down) for the next-time it happens..(or not?)

[acer]

This seems to have disappeared or fixed with an update.
I'll mark it solved for now and revisit if it happens again.

[PCNetSpec]

Okay, thanks for the update

[acer]

ok, this happened again today.
Only difference this time was a kernel update via mint update manager earlier today.
Kernel 4.4.0-42 (level 5) update installed then switched off laptop to go out.

Came back to laptop a while later, switched on and froze again at plymouth splash.
Tried the above key combo and screen kept scrolling..cryptoswap stuff continuously for ages.....
Hard power off and booted into grub.

After a couple of attempted boots on 4.4.0-42, I gave up and reverted back to 4.4.0-38
I've also removed kernel 4.4.0-42 from my system via mint update manager/ kernel update manager.
switched laptop off and on and all is good again. 

[PCNetSpec]

Are you using encryption ?

[acer]

Yup, /Home folder as per initial set-up
Kernel Panic?

[edit] is 4.4.0-42 the 4.8 kernel?

[PCNetSpec]

No it's the 4.4 kernel series .. we can try installing a different kernel if you want, or we can just flag the 4.4.0-38 kernel as the one to automatically boot into and wait to see if the next kernel update fixes things ?

[acer]

No it's the 4.4 kernel series .. we can try installing a different kernel if you want, or we can just flag the 4.4.0-38 kernel as the one to automatically boot into and wait to see if the next kernel update fixes things ?

Thanks for the confirmation, I'm just gonna leave as is for now and as you say, wait for the next kernel update. 
if it ain't broken..

[PCNetSpec]

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