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Faintful

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[SOLVED] Can't mount /bin/plymouth after removing catalyst drivers

So, I had some trouble with my monitor so tried installing catalyst over xf86-video-ati (I am a rookie), shit hit the fan and I wanted to remove catalyst again. Got that sorted, with a bit of pain, but now after this trouble I can't seem to boot into my DE anymore. On a normal boot it sticks at the systemd-fsck[231]: /dev/sda3: clean etc.. I booted in recovery mode via GRUB where the journal outputs that /bin/plymouth couldn't be mounted. I checked my fstab which seems to be normally (I didn't even change it), I also reinstalled linux with Pacman -S linux as suggested in a different thread. I don't know what to do anymore and would love to avoid an uninstall at this point!

Thanks a lot,

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't mount /bin/plymouth after removing catalyst drivers

Is /bin/plymouth listed in fstab?  If so, what happens when you comment out that line?

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't mount /bin/plymouth after removing catalyst drivers

Nope, it's just both of my partitions, one mounted to / and one to /home. Nothing more. It's a generated fstab.

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't mount /bin/plymouth after removing catalyst drivers

Okay, so in my xorg log file it display an error about unable to load the radeon and vesa module? What modules are they looking for? I do have the xf86-video-ati package installed!

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't mount /bin/plymouth after removing catalyst drivers

Try to disable plymouthd (systemctl disable plymouthd.service) and rebuild your initrd by issuing "mkinitcpio -p linux".

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't mount /bin/plymouth after removing catalyst drivers

Thanks, I'm a step further! LightDM is the one that doesn't boot now. I also figured that the errors in the xorg log file are due to missing libgl packages. Problem is, I don't have a network connection in single user mode and when I try to change the system target to multi user I just get a black screen.. probably due to the driver error.. so I can't download the packages..

TL;DR: get an internet connection in single-user mode, fix libgl and xf86 packages. How?

Last edited by Faintful (2014-06-13 18:59:07)

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't mount /bin/plymouth after removing catalyst drivers

Okay, one more update. I ran the following to establish a network connection and get the required packages.

dhcpcd enp3s0
pacman -Syu
pacman -S --asdeps xf86-video-ati ati-dri mesa lib32-ati-dri lib32-mesa lib32-mesa-libgl lib32-mesa-demos

All that's left now is that LightDM still won't boot because it's asking for Plymouth. I have never installed or set up Plymouth.. It's not even on my system (as far as I know). I am using XFCE with LightDM.. Hope someone can help me get the last clue!

EDIT:

Finally got it sorted! I removed the xf86-video-ati package. Installed it again. Also enabled the radeon module in the mkinitcpio.conf. I ran -X configure and cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf and I booted into my DE! Woot!

Last edited by Faintful (2014-06-14 08:06:38)