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doblerone

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Registered: 2011-12-08

Posts: 218

[SOLVED] updated nvidia and blank screen

My system didn't boot after updating it this morning. It was saying something about Light Display Manager failed.

I couldn't enter on any tty (tried CTRL+ALT+F1 ... F12). With some of the tty's, the screen went completely black.

Reading the forums, I thought that it appeared to be something related with last nvidia upgrade .

Using an ISO image in a USB stick, I managed to chroot into my system and I checked pacman.log confirming that the package was indeed updated this morning.

pastebin

Apparently by updating the package fixes the problem, so I updated it, as it can be seen in the previous pastebin. I have to say that I forgot to unmount partitions after exiting chroot, but apparently it's not so crucial.

And now, my system is completely broken. Not a single letter appears after the reboot.

Any help will be appreciated.

UPDATE: I managed to downgrade both, nvidia and nvidia-utils without any success. Should I also reinstall grub?

UPDATE2: grub reinstalled and system up and running

Last edited by doblerone (2017-11-01 07:46:39)