[SOLVED] Arch is not booting after upgrade Gnome 3.8

miky76 · 2013-05-07 16:52:10

Hi All,
yesterday I've executed the package upgrade with pacman -Syu, everything was looking fine, but after the reboot, the system is not loading anymore.

everytime I start the linux server the boot get stuck like you can see in the picture, and it doesn't go ahead of this point

I've installed a new Arch in a USB drive key, so I can chroot, but so far I cannot go ahead, as I do not see any error message, can you please help me and point me in the right direction for fix the Arch?

thanks

Last edited by miky76 (2013-05-11 16:10:25)

ewaller · 2013-05-07 17:45:16

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ewaller · 2013-05-07 17:48:57

What happens, at that point, if you hit Ctrl-Alt-F2 ?

miky76 · 2013-05-07 17:55:11

I've changed the pic size... sorry about it

if I press Ctrl-Alt-F2 nothing happen...

NoSavvy · 2013-05-07 17:58:38

Updated earlier and had same problem. Slim was not loading so a blank screen. Error found was libpng15.so.15 files were missing.
Somehow all the libpng15 *** files had been deleted. I download the "libpng" package from AUR, unpacked it, ran makepkg and then sudo pacman -U packagename.

All OK.

msthev · 2013-05-07 18:05:05

All the libpng15 files have been deleted because libpng was updated to from 1.5 to 1.6 (and all relevant packages were rebuilt). I'd guess you either did a partial upgrade or have some custom packages that were not recompiled with libpng 1.6.

Raynman · 2013-05-07 18:06:21

Have you tried booting only multi-user.target (e.g., with systemd.unit=multi-user.target as kernel parameter)?

And you mentioned chrooting -- did you check the logs?

NoSavvy · 2013-05-07 18:36:29

@msthev
Thanks for info.
I saw they were updated.
Will look into updating/amending slim as that was my problem.

NS.

miky76 · 2013-05-09 09:20:24

Hi Raynman,
checking in the everything.log of the Arch that is not working I see that there are few errors.

the one just after the last message I see in the screenshot I've posted above is:

May  7 19:52:08 localhost systemd[1]: Starting Graphical Interface.
May  7 19:52:08 localhost systemd[1]: Reached target Graphical Interface.
May  7 19:52:08 localhost systemd[1]: Startup finished in 5.337s (kernel) + 27.606s (userspace) = 32.943s.
May  7 19:52:09 localhost systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit lvm.service, ignoring: Unit lvm.service failed to load: No such file or directory.$
May  7 19:52:09 localhost dbus-daemon[238]: dbus[238]: [system] Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.9" (uid=0 pid=437 co$
May  7 19:52:09 localhost dbus-daemon[238]: dbus[238]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.Accounts' unit='accounts-daemon.servi$
May  7 19:52:09 localhost dbus-daemon[238]: dbus[238]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.Accounts'
May  7 19:52:09 localhost dbus[238]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.Accounts' unit='accounts-daemon.service'
May  7 19:52:09 localhost accounts-daemon[445]: started daemon version 0.6.31
May  7 19:52:09 localhost dbus[238]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.Accounts'
May  7 19:52:11 localhost gdm[437]: Failed to give slave programs access to the display. Trying to proceed.

another one, that appear before the one above is:

 systemd-journald[103]: File /var/log/journal/63971c7ac37392e6e112710d00000308/system.journal corrupted or uncleanl$

do you have any idea in what can be the problem? I do not have any LVM on my server

thanks

Strike0 · 2013-05-09 09:32:32

Did that upgrade include the upgrade to the Gnome 3.8 packages?
If so, you are probably hitting a widely experienced bug with the Gdm upgrade. Whats your graphic card in this case?

For the LVM I would not worry about that unless you have LVM2 in your mkinitcpio hooks, there is news about an upgrade for that on the frontpage.

miky76 · 2013-05-09 14:05:04

Hi Strike0, All,
yes I've upgraded to gnome 3.8, as you can see in the pacman.log

[2013-05-05 23:01] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-desktop (1:3.6.2-1 -> 1:3.8.1-1)
[2013-05-05 23:01] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-online-accounts (3.6.2-1 -> 3.8.1-1)
[2013-05-05 23:01] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-icon-theme-symbolic (3.6.2-1 -> 3.8.0.1-1)
[2013-05-05 23:01] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-icon-theme (3.6.2-1 -> 3.8.0-1)
[2013-05-05 23:01] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-bluetooth (3.6.1-1 -> 3.8.0-1)
[2013-05-05 23:01] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-menus (3.6.2-1 -> 3.8.0-2)
[2013-05-05 23:01] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-session (3.6.2-1 -> 3.8.1-2)
[2013-05-05 23:01] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-settings-daemon (3.6.4-2 -> 3.8.1-1)
[2013-05-05 23:01] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-themes-standard (3.6.5-1 -> 3.8.1-1)
[2013-05-05 23:01] [PACMAN] upgraded libgnome-keyring (3.6.0-2 -> 3.8.0-1)
[2013-05-05 23:01] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-shell (3.6.3.1-3 -> 3.8.1-1)
[2013-05-05 23:01] [PACMAN] upgraded gdm (3.6.2-2 -> 3.8.1.1-1)
[2013-05-05 23:01] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-panel (3.6.2-1 -> 3.6.2-5)
[2013-05-05 23:01] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2013-05-05 23:01] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] (gconftool-2:1657): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon:
[2013-05-05 23:01] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11
[2013-05-05 23:01] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2013-05-05 23:01] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] (gconftool-2:1664): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon:
[2013-05-05 23:01] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11
[2013-05-05 23:02] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-applets (3.5.92-1 -> 3.5.92-3)
[2013-05-05 23:02] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-backgrounds (3.6.0-1 -> 3.8.1-1)
[2013-05-05 23:02] [PACMAN] installed gnome-color-manager (3.8.1-1)
[2013-05-05 23:02] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-control-center (3.6.3-4 -> 3.8.1-1)
[2013-05-05 23:02] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-keyring (3.6.3-1 -> 3.8.2-1)
[2013-05-05 23:02] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-screensaver (3.6.1-1 -> 3.6.1-3)
[2013-05-05 23:02] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-system-monitor (3.6.0-1 -> 3.8.0-1)
[2013-05-05 23:02] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2013-05-05 23:02] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] (gconftool-2:1682): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon:
[2013-05-05 23:02] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11
[2013-05-05 23:02] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-terminal (3.6.1-1 -> 3.8.1-1)
[2013-05-05 23:02] [PACMAN] upgraded gnome-user-docs (3.6.2-1 -> 3.8.0-1)

and my graphic card is:

[root@artemide log]# lspci -v

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 844d
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 53
        Memory at fe000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
        Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        I/O ports at f000 [size=64]
        Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
        Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
        Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features
        Kernel driver in use: i915

oboedad55 · 2013-05-09 16:02:30

I had the same problem. Have you installed any AUR packages like cairo-ubuntu? If so, you'll need to re-build those. Also, try re-installing "librsvg".

Strike0 · 2013-05-09 16:13:15

In my case it was getting rid of conflicting old gnome 3.6 packages and re-installing gdm, particularly

pacman -Rs gnome-screensaver
pacman -S gdm

Further, there is a bug with the intel i915. Make sure you have "SNA" acceleration enabled as per wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … ion_method
Some users with intel graphics apparently also have to boot with the "i915.i915_enable_rc6=0" kernel option (which you can also set per modprobe.d - see same wiki).

miky76 · 2013-05-09 17:00:08

@oboedad55: I do not have any AUR package installed

@Strike0:
thanks for the wiki article, I will follow it.

just for be sure, for uninstall and reinstall gnome in a ArchLinux that is not starting, do I have to chroot? correct?
even the

mkinitcpio -p linux

should me made in chroot... right?

thanks

shulamy · 2013-05-09 18:19:04

in my case downgrading gdm worked.

intel graphic card.

ezik

Strike0 · 2013-05-09 19:45:52

miky76 wrote:

just for be sure, for uninstall and reinstall gnome in a ArchLinux that is not starting, do I have to chroot? correct?
even the
mkinitcpio -p linux
should me made in chroot... right?
thanks

No need to chroot to reinstall all of gnome, no. Obviously though you need a console to create the xorg.d configuration file and use pacman as suggested above (and stop gdm before reinstalling it too). So, if you don't get a TTY (like ewaller asked you above) you can try passing the rc6 config option to the kernel directly in your boot loader once and see if you get to a console then to try the fixes. Otherwise chroot; no need to rebuild the kernel.

miky76 · 2013-05-10 08:42:58

Strike0,
i've chrooted and made the following:

pacman -Rs gnome-screensaver
pacman -S gdm

after reboot, I still had the same problem.

chrooted again and I've created the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf with the following content:

Section "Device"
   Identifier  "Intel Graphics"
   Driver      "intel"
   Option      "AccelMethod"  "sna"
EndSection

rebooted and the Arch started

everything seem to work, but when I watch a movie (with VLC or XBMC) the audio is not working

from the document you gave me, I didn't modify:

- the i915.i915_enable_rc6=0 (as you suggested)
- the KMS, adding MODULES="i915" in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

do you think this can solve the problem?

thanks

Strike0 · 2013-05-10 18:15:05

Hey, great that got your box going again for starters.
The two other configs will not have an impact on your sound for sure. I posted the wiki link as reference for the "SNA" and "rc6" instructions only to save on typing

A couple of further deprecated Gnome 3.6 (e.g. gnome-panel) can be found with pacman and removed, but none I encountered had to do with sound as I remember. I noted that _some_ Gnome update muted sound on reboot, but never had a problem to activate it just with the media keys. I cannot recall if I reinstalled VLC this time around, yet it works as before. Maybe you can investigate a bit further and open a specific thread for it in the multimedia category when the issue remains.

rufus · 2013-05-10 20:02:54

there is a problem in the order of compilation
just try rebuilding cairo-ubuntu on its own
re: packer -S cairo-ubuntu and then do pacman -Syu
good luck!

nomorewindows · 2013-05-10 20:43:51

miky76 wrote:

- the KMS, adding MODULES="i915" in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
do you think this can solve the problem?
thanks

You need i915, drm_kms_helper and intel_agp in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

Strike0 · 2013-05-11 08:03:40

nomorewindows wrote:

You need i915, drm_kms_helper and intel_agp in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

You suggest this to regain the missing sound in VLC or as a general fix of the issue in post #1?

miky76 · 2013-05-11 11:51:33

@rufus: I do not have any cairo-ubuntu installed at the moment

@nomorewindows: do I have to set drm_kms_helper and intel_agp in MODULES like i915, it mean that in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf i will write:

MODULES="i915 drm_kms_helper intel_agp"

shall I add also i915.i915_enable_rc6=0

in /etc/modprobe.d/i915.conf ?

sorry for the silly questions, but I'm not confident myself about this commands

nomorewindows · 2013-05-11 12:08:04

miky76 wrote:

@rufus: I do not have any cairo-ubuntu installed at the moment
@nomorewindows: do I have to set drm_kms_helper and intel_agp in MODULES like i915, it mean that in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf i will write:
MODULES="i915 drm_kms_helper intel_agp"
shall I add also i915.i915_enable_rc6=0
in /etc/modprobe.d/i915.conf ?
sorry for the silly questions, but I'm not confident myself about this commands

The modules line is correct, the i915.i915_enable_rc6=0 would be a kernel command line argument to the boot loader which would tell the i915 module some configuration.

miky76 · 2013-05-11 12:19:07

maybe I wrote something wrong.

I've added the modules and in /etc/modprobe.d/i915.conf the line:

i915.i915_enable_rc6=0

after the command:

mkinitcpio -p linux

i get the error:

libkmod: kmod_config_parse: /etc/modprobe.d/i915.conf line 1: ignoring bad line starting with 'i915.i915_enable_rc6=0'

miky76 · 2013-05-11 12:21:42

the right one is:

options i915 i915_enable_rc6=0

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