Stuck in "starting version 249-3-1-arch"

screamingthensilence · 2021-08-11 01:22:07

Hello,

I was trying to make a VM with PCI pass through. I was following both the wiki about single graphic card pass through (wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PCI_pa … h_via_OVMF ).

At first I was only following the arch wiki's guide. I got to the "Loading vfio-pci early" section, regenerated the initramfs (I'm using mkinitcpio), and rebooted. After passing GRUB, I was stuck on the "Starting version 249.3-1-arch" screen (I had one monitor on the motherboard and one on the GPU I had added to vfio). I could still restart with CTRL-ALT-DELETE. I proceeded to delete the modifications I made to modprobe.d/vfio.conf and /etc/mkinitcpio.conf (this: `options vfio-pci ids=10de:13c2,10de:0fbb` and this: `MODULES=(... vfio_pci vfio vfio_iommu_type1 vfio_virqfd ...)` respectively) using a installation usb and I was able to boot back in.

After this, I tried again. I went back to the down the wiki, but I forgot to reboot until I had finished the "Configuring libvirt" section. Thinking it probably didn't matter, I rebooted once all those services were active. I rebooted and was stuck in the same "Starting version 249.3-1-arch" screen. I went back and undid everything with an installation media again, including stopping the services I started in the "Configuring libvirt" section, but I'm still stuck in that same screen when I try to boot into arch.

Any help trying to debug this would be greatly appreciated! Let me know if you need any more information! I couldn't seem to find this problem in the troubleshooting section.

screamingthensilence · 2021-08-12 09:29:26

Hello,

Not sure if replying to my own post is considered rude in forums, so sorry if this is the case (I've never used a forum really). I just wanted to update:

I've tried passing in the debug and emergency kernel parameters through GRUB. I've read through the journal and I don't see any sort of error message.

I tried passing ignore_loglevel. There isn't really an error message for the first four seconds. Then my network interface says it's ready "enp6s0: link becomes ready" and after this the log is quiet. After about a minute or so I got "kauditd_prinktk_skb: 25 callbacks suppressed". This is then followed by a line that says "audit: type=1130 audit(1628755081.378:36): pid=1 uid=0 ... [more numbers] ... msg = 'unit=systemd-tmpfiles-clean comm="systemd" exe = /usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'". This is followed by a second line that is exactly identical except for "type=1131" After this, I get no new messages. The system just sort of sits there.

I really wish I could post full logs, but I'm not sure how to get them off the non-working machine and into a pastebin. I'd love to hear a suggestion for that, or whether this is actually useful information.

Personally, my hunch is that there's something strange going on with the initramfs, because that's the main thing I was messing with in order to set up the VM. I'm not quite sure how to debug that though, since it's absent from the Arch Wiki's general troubleshooting page as well as the page that comes up when I search initramfs.

Again, please let me know if there's any info I can give to help or any way to debug that might be helpful.

Thanks in advance!

seth · 2021-08-13 14:12:59

You're not supposed to empty post, but as long as you add information, it's fine.
(Just if there's an ongoing discussion, edit your post if nobody has replied rather than posting updates every 5 minutes)

On topic:
Did you try to bind a different framebuffer to the console, eg. "fbcon=map:1", https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/ … /fbcon.rst

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#1 2021-08-11 01:22:07

Stuck in "starting version 249-3-1-arch"

#2 2021-08-12 09:29:26

Re: Stuck in "starting version 249-3-1-arch"

#3 2021-08-13 14:12:59

Re: Stuck in "starting version 249-3-1-arch"

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