Slow boot and Nautilus startup

[ollvid]

Ubuntu Version:
26.04

Desktop Environment (if applicable):

GNOME

Problem Description:

After entering my password at login, the mouse cursor shows but is frozen and the DE takes ~30 seconds to load. Also, starting Files (Nautilus) takes around 20-30 seconds to open and my secondary disks (one partition on my boot drive and another physical disk) is not listed. I can find them with lsblk and mount them via terminal or Gnome Disks. I am getting log messages saying that “gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor.service“ cannot be started.

Screenshots or Error Messages:
in Logs:

Error creating proxy: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gtk.vfs.UDisks2VolumeMonitor: Timeout was reached (g-io-error-quark, 24)

journalctl --user -xeu gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor.service

A start job for unit UNIT has begun execution.
░░
░░ The job identifier is 431.
Jul 24 13:16:24 MJ-Ubuntu systemd[2878]: gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor.service: start operation timed out. Terminating.
Jul 24 13:17:00 MJ-Ubuntu systemd[2878]: gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor.service: Failed with result ‘timeout’.
░░ Subject: Unit failed
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: ``http://www.ubuntu.com/support
░░
░░ The unit UNIT has entered the ‘failed’ state with result ‘timeout’.
Jul 24 13:17:00 MJ-Ubuntu systemd[2878]: Failed to start gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor.service - Virtual filesystem service - disk device monitor.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit UNIT has failed
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: ``http://www.ubuntu.com/support
░░
░░ A start job for unit UNIT has finished with a failure.
░░
░░ The job identifier is 431 and the job result is failed.

What I’ve Tried:

Reinstall gvfs packages

sudo apt reinstall gvfs gvfs-backends gvfs-common gvfs-daemons gvfs-fuse gvfs-libs

[tea-for-one]

@ollvid

“gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor.service“ cannot be started.

Have you tried to enable the service?

sudo systemctl enable --now udisks2

Check the status

systemctl --user status gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor.service

[ollvid]

It’s been a couple of days now and the problem has suddenly disappeared.. I haven’t done anything and I can’t reproduce the issue either..

[rubi1200]

What does systemd-analyze critical-chain show?

Also post the full output of sudo apt update

When posting back, click on the </> preformatted text icon and paste the terminal output inside.

Please do it separately for each one and then save the post.

Thanks

[ollvid]

Don’t know why or how but the issue has “self-healed”.. I haven’t had this issue for a long time now..

Marking as solved!