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This is a Dell XPS 13 2016 model. Updated yesterdat, tried my first reboot since that update this morning. Now the boot hangs before a TTY so I can't get to a console. The last message is
Started Manage, Install and Generate Color Profiles. I tried to edit my systemd boot kernel parameters to add
systemd.unit=graphical.target because I read that might get me to a terminal, but I can't edit the boot entry.
I am hoping I can recover with out a reinstall!
Last edited by zekebsatx (2017-04-05 16:02:52)
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If you can not access a terminal with ctrl+alt+F2 then use boot media and chroot into the system and post the journal from a failed boot.
Please also post the pacman.log for the update that you attribute this issue to.
I would have expected changing the target to graphical.target would not achieve anything as that is the default target.
Systemd#Change_default_target_to_boot_into Did you perhaps mean multi-user.target or rescue.target?
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post the journal from a failed boot.
I am not sure where to find this?
/var/log/journal/system.journal is not a text file.
Did you perhaps mean multi-user.target or rescue.target?
I think I meant rescue.target. Doesn't matter because I must have disabled editing the boot parameters somehow - I can't seem to get the prompt to edit at the boot entry menu.
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Systemd#Filtering_output
Edit:
Pastebin_clients to upload the logs from the console.
Last edited by loqs (2017-04-05 15:46:50)
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Thanks! Just looking through the journal led me to the unit that was failing - it was SDDM.
I disabled the service and it completed the boot!
Not sure what happened to sddm yet, but thanks for the help, I learned something very important about the journal!
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