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michaelii

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Registered: 2021-09-23

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[SOLVED] Stuck on Starting Version 249.5-3 right after GRUB

After the most recent update my computer gets stuck on starting version...

I feel it might be an issue with graphics drivers, how would I look to find where the error should be.  Another issue was when doing mkinitcpio earlier it said that I was missing linuz-linux-zen-g14 or something like that which was weird, I installed it and then ran mkinitcpio with no issues however I still get stuck on starting version, any ideas?

Last edited by michaelii (2022-07-15 21:28:31)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck on Starting Version 249.5-3 right after GRUB

Well if you think it's related to graphics, what are you using? If you have a Kepler nvidia card you need to switch to the 470xx-dkms,utils packages from the AUR.

michaelii

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck on Starting Version 249.5-3 right after GRUB

Well if you think it's related to graphics, what are you using? If you have a Kepler nvidia card you need to switch to the 470xx-dkms,utils packages from the AUR.

Ah yes exactly.  Thank you so much for pointing this out.  I have a GTX 760, I'll go ahead make the switch and see what happens.

michaelii

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck on Starting Version 249.5-3 right after GRUB

Well if you think it's related to graphics, what are you using? If you have a Kepler nvidia card you need to switch to the 470xx-dkms,utils packages from the AUR.

The issue I have run into now is makepkg in arch-chroot, how would I go about this to install the driver from the aur?

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck on Starting Version 249.5-3 right after GRUB

You can not access a console from the installed system with Ctrl+Alt+F2?

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck on Starting Version 249.5-3 right after GRUB

What issue exactly? One thing you need to ensure that's potentially not immediately clear is you want the kernel headers of the kernel you intend to boot, so e.g. linux-headers for the normal linux kernel and then grab the PKDBUILD from https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvidia-470xx-dkms and just run makepkg -s to build the corresponding packages (... and then install the resulting packages with pacman -U or add the -i flag). Other than those you should be able to do all of that from the chroot, assuming you properly mounted all relevant partitions (e.g. you might need a potentially existing /boot partition mounted for the mkinitcpio generation if you keep the modulels).

If this is inufficient, post all commands and their outputs you are using: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … n_services

michaelii

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Registered: 2021-09-23

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck on Starting Version 249.5-3 right after GRUB

What issue exactly? One thing you need to ensure that's potentially not immediately clear is you want the kernel headers of the kernel you intend to boot, so e.g. linux-headers for the normal linux kernel and then grab the PKDBUILD from https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvidia-470xx-dkms and just run makepkg -s to build the corresponding packages (... and then install the resulting packages with pacman -U or add the -i flag). Other than those you should be able to do all of that from the chroot, assuming you properly mounted all relevant partitions (e.g. you might need a potentially existing /boot partition mounted for the mkinitcpio generation if you keep the modulels).

If this is inufficient, post all commands and their outputs you are using: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … n_services

It doesn't let me run makepkg as root.  How do I go in as a user or is there a way to bypass this?

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck on Starting Version 249.5-3 right after GRUB

ah right, after the chroot you can su $youruser to switch the shell to your normal user for example.

michaelii

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck on Starting Version 249.5-3 right after GRUB

Quite odd, the drivers are updated but I still seem to have the same issue.

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck on Starting Version 249.5-3 right after GRUB

Is a graphical environment started on boot?  Does the system use early KMS?  Please post the journal for a boot with the issue.

michaelii

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck on Starting Version 249.5-3 right after GRUB

Still stuck at starting version, I found this in the journal:
[Firmware Bug]  TSC-DEADLINE disabled due to Errata; please update microcode to version: 0x22 (or later)

michaelii

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck on Starting Version 249.5-3 right after GRUB

Ah it was an issue with linux-zen-g14 that I had installed, there was no need for it and was causing my computer to break.  All is fixed now, thank you all for the help and I apologize for my lack of experience in this area.

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck on Starting Version 249.5-3 right after GRUB

It should theoretically work with any kernel, but you'd need to install the relevant headers package of the kernel you intend to use so that the module rebuild can happen.

In any case, if you consider this [SOLVED] please mark it as such by editing the title in your first post.