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colinkeenan

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Registered: 2013-06-13

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[Solved] After linux 3.17.6-1, couldn't boot

After upgrading to linux 3.17.6-1, I was not able to boot and received an error about something needing to start before something else. I can't find the message in journalctl (and there's no message about 3.17.6 at all).

I downgraded following the advice in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/do … the_kernel, and that worked fine.

Is there anyway to find out what the error was? Is anybody else having this issue?

I'm on a core i5 system just using the built-in Intel HD-4000 graphics.
The only modification I made to /etc/default/grub that I made was to set "GRUB_TIMEOUT=1"
I had previously followed the advice found here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mi … de_Updates and regenerated the grub config to activate loading the microcode update by running # grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg after installing intel-ucode.
I have not done anything about the latest 2 news concerning "ca-certificates update" and "GnuPG-2.1 and the pacman keyring", but had done system updates that included those changes before doing the update that installed Linux 3.17.6.

[Solution]
Seems the problem may have been caused by me pressing the reboot button on my computer instead of doing a software reboot.

Just now, I upgraded again to Linux 3.16.6 because I wanted to write down the error message, and after the upgrade, I rebooted with "systemctl reboot" instead of by pressing the reboot button on my computer. Everything is fine.

Last edited by colinkeenan (2014-12-11 20:43:04)