[Solved] Arch hangs at boot at random points

TMalthus · 2013-05-10 18:20:03

Hello. First of all, sorry for the undescriptive title, but one of the main reasons that I came here is because of I don't know what's causing the hanging. The problem started one day to another, the pc worked well and one day I turned it on and it hanged.
At first I thought it was fsck, but doing a little boot debugging (appended "debug" to the kernel parameters) I could notice that the problem comes from somewhere else. The problem is that every time that I try again, the boot stops at a different point, so I cannot know which is exactly the problem.
I post the last 6 lines of 3 different boots (written by hand, so might have typos):

[  OK  ] Started Login Service.
[  24.258733] systemd-logind[252]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event2 (Sleep Button)
[  OK  ] Started GNOME Display Manager.
           Starting Accounts Service...
           Starting Authourization Manager...
[  OK  ] Started Authourization Manager.
[  OK  ] Started Accounts Service.
_

[  OK  ] Reached target Network.
           Starting Privoxy Web Proxy With Advanced Filtering Capabilities....
           Starting Network Time Service...
           Starting Anonymizing Overlay Network...
           Starting Samba NetBIOS name server...
[  27.601929] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: irq 51 for MSI/MSI-X
[  27.703150] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: irq 51 for MSI/MSI-X
[  27.703916] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eno1: link is not ready
[  OK  ] Started Network Time Service
_

And it never gets any further than that. The farthest it gets is "[ OK ] Started Network Time Service". But I don't know even how to start fixing this.
Thank you very much.

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Last edited by TMalthus (2013-05-11 16:06:50)

teateawhy · 2013-05-10 23:58:29

I see that you are using GDM. It caused some problems recently, search on the forum for it.

jrussell · 2013-05-11 08:03:17

Try disabling as much as you can, disable graphical.target and gdm, and enable multi-user.target and work from there to see what's causing the problem.
Slowly re-enable services again in multi-user mode, then if all goes well, disable multi-user.target and enable graphical again, and perhaps try lightdm as a display manager, just to try rule out gdm if you get to this stage.

TMalthus · 2013-05-11 16:06:22

Solved. Using this, and something about rc6 that I cannot really remember,if someone is having that problem look up for it in the forums.

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#1 2013-05-10 18:20:03

[Solved] Arch hangs at boot at random points

#2 2013-05-10 23:58:29

Re: [Solved] Arch hangs at boot at random points

#3 2013-05-11 08:03:17

Re: [Solved] Arch hangs at boot at random points

#4 2013-05-11 16:06:22

Re: [Solved] Arch hangs at boot at random points

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