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leafgecko

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Registered: 2020-08-20

Posts: 3

[Solved] Cannot start graphics.target after upgrade

Hi.

Earlier today I tried to install an android compatibility layer named xdroid using binary executable provided by their official site. The installation was a failure, but modifications to DKMS has been made, because when I later do fully system upgrade, DKMS reported failure on finding two DKMS modules that xdroid use.

Then during a regular reboot after the upgrade, my computer reported "Fail to load Kernel Modules" during bootstrap, and the bootstrap process stopped when it reports "started hostname service".

I restarted into ubuntu, chrooted into Arch, and did the following operations:
1. removed dkms modules (dkms remove ... --all),
2. removed dkms itself (sudo pacman -U dkms),
3. reinstalled linux kernel (sudo pacman -S linux)
4. fsck

After above operations, the faults were gone, but the system still stuck at either "started hostname service" or "waiting for other boot process to finish".

Then I restarted into ubuntu, and changed default target to multi-user.
After reboot, now I can successfully enter shell, but still have no way to access graphical interface.
sudo systemctl start gdm only yields blinking cursor.

The last entry of journalctl -e _COMM=Xorg is when the system is booting regularly(20:20 UTC+8). My computer starts to malfunction after that so I guess no useful information inside xorg log.

I am relatively a linux newbie. Is there anything else I can do?

Thanks.

Edit: grammar

Edit: It seems that the problems is gdm-plymouth.

Last edited by leafgecko (2020-08-21 03:05:08)