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dgingrich

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Registered: 2013-06-03

Posts: 3

Boot hangs on kernel 3.9.4-1 on Thinkpad T430

Hi all,

I installed Arch on a new Thinkpad T430 and after "sudo pacman -Syu"ing boot hung on a black screen immediately after the bootloader.  Ctrl-Alt-Del didn't work so I had to manually power-off.  I rebooted with a Live CD.  I tried some things from google (adding nomodeset to boot options, etc.) but what eventually worked was downgrading the kernel to 3.9.2-1.  Since then everything has been working fine.

Has anyone else seen this?  Google/the bug database didn't list a 3.9.4-1 kernel bug, so I suspect it's something with the laptop.  Wanted to confirm it's not just my set-up before filing a bug report.

I'm fairly new to debugging kernel-y stuff on linux, so any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Dave

axelectrik

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Registered: 2012-01-25

Posts: 126

Re: Boot hangs on kernel 3.9.4-1 on Thinkpad T430

If there's no need to upgrade the kernel you can hold the package in /etc/pacman.conf
Probably in the next version of the kernel it will be fixed

PaulSamways

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From: Canberra, Australia

Registered: 2011-10-04

Posts: 8

Re: Boot hangs on kernel 3.9.4-1 on Thinkpad T430

Possibly related to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=156670?

dgingrich

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Registered: 2013-06-03

Posts: 3

Re: Boot hangs on kernel 3.9.4-1 on Thinkpad T430

Thanks!  I've subscribed to that thread.  In the meantime I took @axeletrick's advice and added IgnorePkg=linux to /etc/pacman.conf.