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albertojm

Member

Registered: 2014-11-20

Posts: 1

Arch boot freezes after system update

Yesterday I've updated 2-years-straight-running arch system with pacman -Syu. It updated it to kernel linux 3.17.3-1 (x86_64), everything worked fine but after rebooting my system it freezes at random stages of boot loading, but mostly at:

hwdb.bin does not exist, please run udevadm hwdb --update
[OK] Started udev Kernel Decive Manager.

Sometimes it hangs at:

[OK] Started udev Kernel Decive Manager.
[OK] Starting Load/Save RF Kill Switch Status of rfkill0
[OK] Starting Load/Save RF Kill Switch Status of rfkill1
[OK] Started Load/SAve Screen Backlight Brightness of leds:samsung:kbd_backlight.
[OK] Started Load/Save RF Kill Switch Status of rfkill.

My BIOS Configuration is:

AHCI Mode enabled
EFI boot (CMS).

HDD One partition of 1TB with LVM2 encryption.

Weird thing is, I've downloaded arch iso and wrote it to a usb disk following the instructions described at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/US … tion_media.

And after selecting live Arch x86_64 it hangs at:

[] udev device kernel manager...

I've just downloaded / wrote to a usb disk ubuntu live and it started just fine.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks for all.

nstgc

Member

Registered: 2014-03-17

Posts: 393

Re: Arch boot freezes after system update

So, have you updated it recently, prior to today? If not that's most likely your problem. Other wise, could you provide the relevant section from pacman.log? Also, that hwdb.bin thing is normal it seems. I also have that.

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Arch boot freezes after system update

Does it freeze for a while and then boots OK? If so, what's the output of 'systemd-analyze' and 'systemd-analyze blame'?
Anything interesting in the logs or systemd's journal?