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archmendudemale

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laptop won't boot past disk check on ecrypted installation

My new HP AMD laptop won't boot past the disk check after inputting my encryption key. Here is the output:

Starting version 244.3-1-arch

A password is required to access the cryptlvm volume:
Enter passphrase for /dev/nvme0n1p2:
/dev/mapper/volgroup-root: recovering journal
/dev/mapper/volgroup-root: clean, 43658/2097152 files, 738668/8388608 blocks

It just stays like that forever. I've never installed on an ssd before so that may have something to do with this. I just used the standard wiki installation guide for encrypted install. When I initially use cryptsetup and when I manually open the partition with cryptsetup in live installation it says /run/cryptsetup is missing. It does let me access it though.

Pacman downloads everything, but says

Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Vim doesn't work either. It says:

vim: error while loading shared libraries: libperl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I'm sorry but I don't know how to mark things as code.

Please help, thank you.
PS: I manually typed all of the code.

Last edited by archmendudemale (2020-07-03 21:53:20)

jasonwryan

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Re: laptop won't boot past disk check on ecrypted installation

https://bbs.archlinux.org/help.php#bbcode

Remove quiet from the kernel line to see if that prints more information. Otherwise, chroot in and look at the journal for the failed boot.

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archmendudemale

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Re: laptop won't boot past disk check on ecrypted installation

I did that and it is just a line of OKs. After the password. It stops at:

 [ OK ] Reached target Sound Card 

Last edited by archmendudemale (2020-07-02 23:53:20)

loqs

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Re: laptop won't boot past disk check on ecrypted installation

Otherwise, chroot in and look at the journal for the failed boot.

Does the laptop shutdown when the power button is pressed?  May indicate the issue is with the display.  Have you tried disabling KMS?

jasonwryan

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Re: laptop won't boot past disk check on ecrypted installation

I did that and it is just a line of OKs. After the password. It stops at:

 [ OK ] Reached target Sound Card 

What, exactly, is supposed to happen? The laptop is booting fine (edit your title), but it isn't clear what you are expecting next: a prompt, display manager, DE/WM?

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archmendudemale

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Re: laptop won't boot past disk check on ecrypted installation

I disabled kms with nomodeset. It allowed me to login. So that's fixed. I was using android usb tethering because the wireless interface wasn't detected, but that doesn't work now that I've logged in. Also vim still has the same error message, so I imagine pacman won't work either. I tried to use git to download a driver in the aur, but git won't work either... How do I get android tethering to work? It is listed in the network interfaces when I activate usb tethering on android.

Edit: I fixed the pacman and vim thing, and got the driver for the wireless, and the tethering just needed the dhcpcd package installed.

Last edited by archmendudemale (2020-07-03 21:53:46)

archmendudemale

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Re: laptop won't boot past disk check on ecrypted installation

Everything is solved except /run/cryptlvm being missing, Is that a bug, or is something wrong with cryptsetup?