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Lazzu

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Registered: 2012-10-27

Posts: 62

[solved] Freeze after running modprobe command, and does not boot up

Hello.

I have no idea how I should continue from this point. What I did was that I installed this package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hdjmod/?comments=all And after that I ran the command to load the kernel module, at which point the whole system froze up. I tried to reboot, but it wont start up to login manager.

What I have done so far is, I have booted up to single user mode and ran the modprobe command with -r, and then removed the whole package with pacman. The system still does not boot up to login manager. Last thing I get is that it is trying to start slim, and then just freezes. No graphical stuff comes up at all. I am able to restart with ctrl+alt+del.

Help, pretty please with sugar on top? I got all important files out to usb stick with help of my friend, but he does not know Arch well enough to help me any further. I'd like to still be able to use it without reinstalling everything. Thank you in advance.

Last edited by Lazzu (2013-03-20 17:38:53)

cinelli

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From: Los Angeles, California

Registered: 2012-08-10

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Re: [solved] Freeze after running modprobe command, and does not boot up

Hello.

I have no idea how I should continue from this point. What I did was that I installed this package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hdjmod/?comments=all And after that I ran the command to load the kernel module, at which point the whole system froze up. I tried to reboot, but it wont start up to login manager.

What I have done so far is, I have booted up to single user mode and ran the modprobe command with -r, and then removed the whole package with pacman. The system still does not boot up to login manager. Last thing I get is that it is trying to start slim, and then just freezes. No graphical stuff comes up at all. I am able to restart with ctrl+alt+del.

Help, pretty please with sugar on top? I got all important files out to usb stick with help of my friend, but he does not know Arch well enough to help me any further. I'd like to still be able to use it without reinstalling everything. Thank you in advance.

Does everything just go black? or does the system actually become unresponsive? .. Any chance you could ssh into the system from another after this happens to see if it does in fact just stay responsive you just lose the display?

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frank604

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From: BC, Canada

Registered: 2011-04-20

Posts: 1,219

Re: [solved] Freeze after running modprobe command, and does not boot up

Can you access TTY? If so, try to disable slim from autostart with a systemctl disable slim.service
Then look at your logs (like, Xorg.0.log) and journalctl -b
Look at your startup configs, most primarily .xinitrc  <--- since the system is going blank when starting slim, I'd just let startx startup your wm/de only.  Copy the current .xinitrc to .xinitrc.backup first.
I would also look at the modules loaded in /etc/modules-load.d <---check all the files pertinent to see if they are trying to load hdjmod

Not sure what the problem is, but just brainstorming with you.

Last edited by frank604 (2013-02-20 22:47:55)

Lazzu

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Registered: 2012-10-27

Posts: 62

Re: [solved] Freeze after running modprobe command, and does not boot up

Hello, sorry for late response. Last month has been really hectic and I have not had time to look at this.

I looked at Xorg.0.log and found out that nvidia module could not be loaded. Then I reinstalled nvidia, and I got it to boot up.

Thank you!