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tracuboTL

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Registered: 2010-10-04

Posts: 55

[SOLVED] Boot loop after upgrade

Hi all,
When i try to boot arch, even in fallback mode, boot fail and go in loop.

loop happen just after the display of nvidia logo, then it try to do something (not showed in screen), it fail, and the nvidia logo is showen again.
I can't access to GDM, i can't turn off computer (have to remove battery from my laptop), i can't access to terminal/console/virtual console.

Last things i've made:
- full update system (pacman -Syu)
- changed /etc/environment adding this line (i was trying to solve tearing problem):
CLUTTER_PAINT=disable-clipped-redraws:disable-culling
CLUTTER_VBLANK=True

nothing seem to work

i've already removed the 2 added lines from another linux distro i've on the same computer, so i don't think /etc/environment is a problem here

don't know what to do and how to solve...
any hints?

thanks
Nico

Last edited by tracuboTL (2012-02-07 14:43:30)

tmske

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Registered: 2006-04-08

Posts: 21

Re: [SOLVED] Boot loop after upgrade

I have exactly the same problem,

Did a full update with pacman.
I haven't updated with yaourt, because I had some problems and rebooted, but now I cannot access the terminal.
If I switch to tty1, I constantly switch back. Ctrl+Alt+Backspace is not enabled and I'm not sure it would work.

I've tried to only boot to runlevel 3, but gdm is in the daemons or I did something wrong because I boot into X again.
Anyone have an idea how to solve this?

Thanks

EDIT: solved it for me
Step 1: on boot let GRUB only boot to init 1
Step 2: change config files so not to start X
Step 3: reboot so you have networking support
Step 4: search in aur if you have a your own cairo package (pacman -Qm)
Step 5: rebuilt that cairo package
Step 6: start X

* step 2 and 3 are maybe not needed if you know how to get networking in init 1. Re;ember to undo the changes in Step 2 so X starts at boot again.

Last edited by tmske (2012-02-06 18:15:15)

tracuboTL

Member

Registered: 2010-10-04

Posts: 55

Re: [SOLVED] Boot loop after upgrade

i've solved as well, thanks a lot to tmske!!

the cairo package for me was cairo-ubuntu (i've discovered it using yaout -Qm |grep cairo), i haven't  rebuild it since it seem to be out-date, instead i've installed cairo-ubuntu-xcb from aur, and it have substituted cairo-ubuntu.

again thanks a lot tmske! :-D