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satoshich

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Registered: 2023-01-30

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[SOLVED] Stuck after boot with non-blinking cursor

Hello, the other day I updated the whole system with `yay -Syu` after about 6 months of not doing it. Since then the system doesn't boot anymore and is stuck on a black screen with a non-blinking cursor at the top left.

I booted into the OS by using an USB drive with the latest version of Arch and managed to recover the journal but I don't see anything that should stop it from booting?

Complete journal: https://pastebin.com/qW8ybmqn
Errors journal: https://pastebin.com/KEX1JZRe

Running kernel 6.4.7. I also tried installing the LTS version of the kernel (6.1.something) but that didn't fix it.

Any help greatly appreciated, thank you!

Last edited by satoshich (2023-08-31 13:01:57)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck after boot with non-blinking cursor

Aug 31 14:34:02 g14 kernel: [drm] Initialized simpledrm 1.0.0 20200625 for simple-framebuffer.0 on minor 0
Aug 31 14:34:02 g14 kernel: Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 240x75
Aug 31 14:34:02 g14 kernel: simple-framebuffer simple-framebuffer.0: [drm] fb0: simpledrmdrmfb frame buffer device

Add

initcall_blacklist=simpledrm_platform_driver_init

to the https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel_parameters

Additionally this is a dual-gpu system and there'S no output attached to the "Radeon RX 6650 XT / 6700S / 6800S" - try to boot the multi-user.target in case this is just an X11 config thing.
Edit: 2nd link below

Last edited by seth (2023-08-31 12:14:34)

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satoshich

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck after boot with non-blinking cursor

Hi Seth, thanks so much for your reply. I added the kernel parameter as instructed but it didn't help. However, booting the multi-user.target works fine and let's me log in etc. So it does seem to be a problem with X11 (or graphics drivers?) but I'm not sure what exactly...

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck after boot with non-blinking cursor

Please post your Xorg log, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General

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satoshich

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck after boot with non-blinking cursor

Right, I had some bad config regarding my external mouse (trying to make it slower). Something I added recently and completely forgot about. Xorg logs indicated the config was invalid, but it's weird because I had checked those logs before and they weren't saying anything more than the journal was already saying (amd_gpio Invalid config param 0014). Weird. Anyway it's all resolved now, thanks a lot for your help!