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aminepro

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[SOLVED]there's a problem with systemd

Yesterday, I connected an msi Monitor to my laptop via hdmi, I was using uaing hyprland with dms, once I connected the monitor the system showed a grey screen and freezed there so I rebooted it and it worked at the end even though I bit suspiscious about that since I coudn't control the brightness, sound volume... through keybindings until did through gui.

I rebooted my system again without that monitor and systemd doesn't work at all and I can't use iwd nor hyprland .

normal user gets:
%sytemctl
Failed to connect to system scope bus via local transport: connection refused
root:
#systemctl status iwd
× iwd.service - Wireless service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/iwd.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
     Active: failed (Result: start-limit-hit) since Thu 2026-06-25 10:49:55 UTC; 10min ago
Invocation: 3ecb0f67083e463c99c0770c4e39fc41
       Docs: man:iwd(8)
             man:iwd.config(5)
             man:iwd.network(5)
             man:iwd.ap(5)
    Process: 867 ExecStart=/usr/lib/iwd/iwd (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Main PID: 867 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Mem peak: 2.4M
        CPU: 24ms

Jun 25 10:49:55 archlinux systemd[1]: iwd.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Jun 25 10:49:55 archlinux systemd[1]: iwd.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Jun 25 10:49:55 archlinux systemd[1]: iwd.service: Failed with result 'start-limit-hit'.
Jun 25 10:49:55 archlinux systemd[1]: Failed to start Wireless service.

I may not have being able to share this without root access.
Please forgive vagueness and formatting I'm using my phone to write this.

Last edited by aminepro (2026-06-25 20:43:57)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED]there's a problem with systemd

Boot the install iso, mount the partition of the installed system into /mnt and from there get us

sudo journalctl -D /mnt/var/log/journal -b | curl -s -H "Accept: application/json, */*" --upload-file - 'https://paste.c-net.org/'
sudo LC_ALL=C pacman --root /mnt -Qkk | grep -v ', 0 altered files' | grep -v backup > /tmp/howbadisit.txt
cat /tmp/howbadisit.txt | curl -s -H "Accept: application/json, */*" --upload-file - 'https://paste.c-net.org/' # same curl as before

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aminepro

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Re: [SOLVED]there's a problem with systemd

I'll try to figure out how to get them, I'll read about that pastebin ''\ .
second command had warnings:
filesystem: /etc/resolv.conf (UID mismatch)
filesystem: /etc/resolv.conf (GID mismatch)
libutemper: /usr/lib/utemper/utemper (GID mismatch)
libutemper: /usr/lib/utemper/utemper (Permission mismatch)  #of course I was running root
systemd: /var/log/journal (GID mismatch)

Last edited by aminepro (2026-06-25 17:42:38)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED]there's a problem with systemd

You're supposed to get urls from those commands that you can post here.

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aminepro

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Re: [SOLVED]there's a problem with systemd

https://paste.c-net.org/DevlinAccident

Last edited by aminepro (2026-06-25 17:50:55)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED]there's a problem with systemd

What about the other commands?

That said you appear to be booting the "wrong"/old kernel, current is 7.0.13 but you're booting 7.0.12 in that output, which can then not find any modules and explodes. The cmdline suggests the kernel is situated and loaded from the ESP directly, the attempts at mounting the ESP suggests an attempt at mounting it to /efi, which will mean that on update the kernel files for the correct and new kernel will likely have landed on /boot on your root partition which is not what you're booting. What's your bootloader setup/kernel install supposed to be? Fix for the current situation would be to mount the partitions correctly, mount the ESP to /mnt/boot, chroot into /mnt, reinstall the linux kernel package and checking whether the correct kernel boots now.

aminepro

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Re: [SOLVED]there's a problem with systemd

the other command didn't ouput anything so I supposed they go all to the same link

seth

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Re: [SOLVED]there's a problem with systemd

Second command writes to /tmp/howbadisit.txt and the third one uploads that.
Could you fix the system by aligning booting and installed kernel?

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aminepro

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Re: [SOLVED]there's a problem with systemd

Just upgrading the kernel did the trick,
THANKS

Last edited by aminepro (2026-06-25 19:45:05)