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#1 2023-01-08 08:52:18
- Petrosk
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[SOLVED] Arch reboots after I get shown the login prompt.
Hello everyone!
Yesterday I was working on a project and I had to update my system before downloading gimp. Everything was fine and I shutdown my computer to get some sleep. When I boot today, the grub shows as usual but once I reach the terminal login prompt the system waits for about a second and then reboots immediately. There are no errors preceding that and all I had done was updating the kernel
So I booted from a newly installed arch installation medium to get my kernel to the previous version and fix the issue. However, once I boot up from there the computer freezes too just after printing the message "Reached target Login Prompts". It doesn't display any errors before that
I am stuck because I can't access my system nor use the installation medium. This seems a bit strange because the USB iso is meant to be independent, I can't get my head around on why it would crash with the same error too. Of course I can reinstall my system again but I want to save some of my work from yesterday.
Any ideas?
Thanks
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#2 2023-01-08 09:15:33
- seth
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Re: [SOLVED] Arch reboots after I get shown the login prompt.
"a newly installed arch installation medium" probably has a kernel w/ the same issue.
Boot a different lie ditro (eg. grml) and access the journal of the installed system from there.
You can also chroot into the installed system, don't forget to mount the /boot partition and install the LTS kernel and see whether you can boot that.
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#3 2023-01-08 10:17:44
- Petrosk
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Re: [SOLVED] Arch reboots after I get shown the login prompt.
I should have thought about that... I got an older version, used pacman -U to downgrade the kernel and the system is now running perfectly fine. This has happened before, I don't think that it's a kernel bug or anything like that. This computer is slow and it used to be a windows machine, the partitions are messed up as well. I won't bother you with journal logs, thanks
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#4 2023-01-08 12:35:56
- seth
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Re: [SOLVED] Arch reboots after I get shown the login prompt.
downgrade the kernel and the system is now running perfectly fine. This has happened before, I don't think that it's a kernel bug
Are you updating the wrong kernel ie. update w/o mounting the boot partition or booting from the root partition but install the kernel somewhere else?
I won't bother you with journal logs, thanks
You do you, but ignoring the problem won't make it go away.
If you don't intend to fix this and are happy w/ the situation, please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.
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