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fungle

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Registered: 2014-05-01

Posts: 81

Blank screen on boot but only somtimes

After updating to kernel 3.16.1-1, sometimes booting up leads to a blank screen. In this blank screen state, everything seems to be working, the numlock/capslock keys light up when toggled and pushing the power button does a full shutdown which I've set it up to do, just no screen. Interestingly, adding the kernel option `nomodeset` seems to fix this but I haven't touched any video drivers whatsoever and don't use proprietary drivers either, I use nouveau. Even more interestingly, this only happens sometimes. I happened to save logs for when this blank screen state happens and when everything boots up OK.

Here is Xorg.log for blank screen:
http://sprunge.us/VcLE

Here is the normal Xorg.log:
http://sprunge.us/PRdG

Here is the journal boot logs for blank screen:
http://sprunge.us/HJMQ

And here is the normal journal boot logs:
http://sprunge.us/FdRe

I'm not sure if anything looks out of the ordinary, but any suggestions would help
Thanks.