[Solved] Arch stuck at "starting version" when boot

Ichirou · 2020-05-14 04:08:19

Hi guys. I just did a system upgraded after about 2 months since the last one. Today when I turned it on it got stuck at "starting version 245.5-2-arch" Here are my attempts to find and fix:
- I used live cd to boot in
- Checked journal, it looked just like what I would see when I run it on my normally working PC (and nothing about nvidia at fault)
- Uninstalled some packages
- I found out Nvidia was the culprit. My laptop worked normally again after I uninstall everything related to nvidia (nvidia, nvidia-utils, bumblebee, optimus-manger)
- I couldn't remember what version of nvidia was before the upgrade so I tried manually install the oldest version in pacman cache which is 440.59-8 (after upgrade it was 440.82-12)
- My laptop got stuck again
- Now that I'm writing this topic
Anyone have an idea how to make nvidia works with my laptop again? My data is backed-up already so reinstalling arch shouldn't be a problem but it is the last thing I would want to do if no solution came to work.
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Update: Well, I don't really know anymore, now that even after removing nvidia I still got stuck. The journal was still the same as the journal mentioned above. Any help is appreciated.

Last edited by Ichirou (2020-05-14 05:49:26)

seth · 2020-05-14 05:21:44

Please adjust the subject to better reflect the condition at hand.
Try to boot the multi-user.target, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … _boot_into and eventually passing "nomodeset" to the kernel.
You most certainly did not get the same journal w/ and w/o the nvidia driver intalled… please post it. Hint: if it says "archiso", you're looking at the wrong journal.

Ichirou · 2020-05-14 05:49:15

Oh wow it really worked! I booted using multi-user.target with nomodeset and it booted normally. May I ask why is that? Cuz I have been using default target up until now without any problems.

seth · 2020-05-14 05:57:01

Whatever your graphical target is is broken in some way shape or form or KMS is.
Try w/o nomodeset and also remove the "quiet" from the kernel commandline.

Ichirou · 2020-05-14 06:04:53

I did, and it booted normally, removing quiet showed some lines when boot, but all started with [OK]

seth · 2020-05-14 06:06:08

a) how is this solved?
b) so, what's your graphical.target?

Ichirou · 2020-05-14 06:14:29

a) I put it as solved cuz my laptop just booted normally and I haven't met any other problem. I just changed to multi-user.target.
b) I don't quite understand the question, you mean my current target? systemctl get-default resulted in multi-user.target which I set as you instructed

seth · 2020-05-14 10:10:00

The default target would otherwise be typically the graphical.target - eg. some DM or startx etc.
And apparently that is what has failed so far.

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