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Biolunar

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Registered: 2022-08-17

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] Booting stuck in early userspace on kernels >= 5.18.12

Hi,
after I’ve dealt with this for a couple of weeks now, but it wasn’t resolved with the currenly newest kernel 5.19, so I ask for your help. On my laptop the kernel needs to be pinned to version 5.18.12 because everytime I upgrade, it get’s stuck in the very early userspace.
My setup: encrypted root, no bootloader just EFISTUB.
On a normal boot I get

:: running early hook [udev]
Starting version 251.4-1-arch
:: running hook [udev]
:: Triggering uevents...
:: running hook [keymap]
:: Loading keymap...done.
:: running hook [encrypt]

Then it prompts me for the password.

On a newer kernel (I tested 5.18.13, 5,18.14, 5.18.16 and 5.19.1), I get

:: running early hook [udev]
Starting version 251.4-1-arch

aaaand that’s it.

Any idea how I can investigate what broke the newer versions for me?

Last edited by Biolunar (2022-08-17 21:15:53)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 17,372

Re: [SOLVED] Booting stuck in early userspace on kernels >= 5.18.12

Same issue as https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/75516 ?

Biolunar

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Registered: 2022-08-17

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Booting stuck in early userspace on kernels >= 5.18.12

Thank you very much!
That thread lead me to the solution for my case: I had the amdgpu module enabled in the mkinitcpio.conf which, as it turns out, is the culprit. Removing amdgpu from MODULE=(...) in the /etc/mkinitcpio.conf file solved it for me.