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muddytimbs

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Registered: 2022-06-16

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[SOLVED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules

Hello all,

I've been an arch user for a few months now and have ran into an issue on boot. Two nights ago I did a

 sudo pacman -Syu 

and woke up unable to boot into my machine.

On boot I'm met with tons fat/wide text that I've never experienced before. An example of this is:

 [ 2.6991321] usb 1-10.1: New USB device found... 

It slowly procedes until it hangs up and I notice the error (subject of post) near the end of the log.

I've entered into a live environment via USB, mounted / and /boot, chrooted in, and found the output of

 uname -a 

and

 pacman -Q linux 

to not be the same.

I've noticed this is hardly a novel issue, but, as per a similar posts, I've tried reinstalling linux in the live environment to no avail.

Any help would be much appreciated. My bootloader is grub. Thanks!

Last edited by muddytimbs (2022-06-16 19:17:17)

damjan

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Registered: 2006-05-30

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Re: [SOLVED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules

In a live USB environment, `uname -a` and `pacman -Q linux` can't be the same. one is the kernel from the USB booted, the other is the kernel package installed on the hard drive.

paste the whole journalctl from the last boot that's on the hard drive. (see arguments --file and --boot 0)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [SOLVED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules

The 'file' command can be used on /boot/vmlinuz* to determine the version installed in the /boot partition. Compare that to /usr/lib/modules/ — they need to match. If they don't then re-install the kernel with /boot mounted correctly and review /etc/fstab to make sure the /boot entry is correct.

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muddytimbs

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Registered: 2022-06-16

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Re: [SOLVED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules

@head_on_a_stick: The version of /boot/vmlinuz-linux and /lib/modules is the same. My boot entry of fstab is:

 # /dev/nvme1n1p1
UUID=CFA6-EB13 /boot vfat 0 2 

@damjan: makes sense. I had a hunch that may have been the case. Here is a pastebin with the most recent boot off of the hard drive: https://pastebin.com/TGyUbAGN

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules

Jun 16 11:50:28 bigrig kernel: traps: Missing ENDBR: _nv011433rm+0x0/0x10 [nvidia]

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=276786

muddytimbs

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Registered: 2022-06-16

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Re: [SOLVED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules

@loqs, that was the issue. ibt=off did the trick. Thanks.