You are not logged in.
Pages: 1
Hi, I got some boot problems.
Since the installation in August, my computer ran perfectly Archlinux (execpt the TSC fast calibration fail, but that seemed to be non effective), but yesterday, my computer won't boot up on AL.
I did a lil' pacman -Syu to upgrade some package, like the last kernel and nvidia drivers, which installed without problems. Seeing that I was low on batteries and away from the charging cable, I tried to use the hibernate option. It failed and hanged my computer. Okay. Let's reboot. Nothing. It just freezes after the "Fast TSC fail". The last messages I get is pm complaining that he didn't found any hibernate image, and registered taskstats in level 1. The cursor is freezed to an Still Underscore of Death. Oh, and the fan is fanning like hell, like if the CPU was at max!
I tried some options on the wiki I had, like turning on booting debug messages. resintalling GRUB, reinstalling the kernel, the linux-utils, the PM package, reinstalling pacstrap base packages, reinstalled initramfs's RAMDisk, nothing. Hopefully, I still can access my files with the live CD, or the secure Wincrap partition. (God, I grown up to *hate* Windows).
I'm on a Asus X71SL Laptop, with Intel T5550 @1.83GHz*2, a GeForce 9300m GS, and 3GB RAM.
Could you help me into fixing this boot problems, please? Thanks in advance!
Offline
Did you follow any instructions in pacman's output? Did you read the news on the front page?
Use journalctl and/or dmesg to figure out what is causing the issue and post the stuff here (using code tags) or use a pastebin and link there if you need help. You can use something like wgetpaste from the command line to post stuff to a pastebin provided you can get an internet connection in the live environment (which I assume you can if you are reinstalling stuff unless you are just doing so from cache).
Is your system definitely up to date? That is, you definitely used pacman -Syu and did not just update specific packages? (I'm a bit unclear because you mentioned both pacman -Syu and updating specific packages.)
CLI Paste | How To Ask Questions
Arch Linux | x86_64 | GPT | EFI boot | refind | stub loader | systemd | LVM2 on LUKS
Lenovo x270 | Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz | Intel Wireless 8265/8275 | US keyboard w/ Euro | 512G NVMe INTEL SSDPEKKF512G7L
Offline
I'm going trough journalctl. I always updated my system with pacman -Syu. I resintalled the packaged with -Syyu.
Edit: journalctl is not updated. Last messgaes is from the last wor'ing day. Link to the journalctl's last day
Last edited by Eiyeron (2013-09-21 10:46:26)
Offline
what's the output of
journalctl --this-boot
The short cuts are only short because they don't actually go anywhere. -- Trilby
Nothing feels better than being understood -- awayand
A pathetic dreamer
Offline
what's the output of
journalctl --this-boot
Run this with sudo to get much more info (I'm not saying that this info will be relevant ;P).
I'm going trough journalctl. I always updated my system with pacman -Syu. I resintalled the packaged with -Syyu.
Edit: journalctl is not updated. Last messgaes is from the last wor'ing day. Link to the journalctl's last day
The last line says
sept. 17 16:59:36 Arch-Eiyeron systemd-journal[106]: Journal stopped
What's the exact command you used to get this output from the journal?
Last edited by karol (2013-09-21 11:36:01)
Offline
Karol: journalctl.
Journalctl --this-boot only gives :
--logs begin at 2013-08-27, end at 2013-09-17--
(Shortened)
Last edited by Eiyeron (2013-09-21 11:42:56)
Offline
Eiyeron,
Execute:
sudo journalctl --no-pager --this-boot > txt.txt
(Assumes you have sudo installed, otherwise execute from a root prompt). Then post the contents of the txt.txt file that is created to http://pastebin.com/ and give the link here. You could also place the contents of txt.txt in [ code ] ... [ / code ] tags here.
Offline
I have sudo, I still can't boot. Do I have to run it in the chroot?
In the arch-chroot
In the live CD root
Last edited by Eiyeron (2013-09-21 12:07:35)
Offline
Hmm, missed the part where you are unable to boot. Sorry.
Yes, try to access your journal in a chroot. Can't hurt.
Offline
Offline
Try accessing the journal in the chroot, using sudo but without the --last-boot flag. Since you haven't booted that kernel I'm not sure the --last-boot flag will give you much.
CLI Paste | How To Ask Questions
Arch Linux | x86_64 | GPT | EFI boot | refind | stub loader | systemd | LVM2 on LUKS
Lenovo x270 | Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz | Intel Wireless 8265/8275 | US keyboard w/ Euro | 512G NVMe INTEL SSDPEKKF512G7L
Offline
Welp, I tried updating to the new kernel. Nothing changed. What informations do you need?
Offline
You could try netconsole to see if there is anything happening during boot. Read this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bo … et_Console and this https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Netconsole
Edit: obviously booting from the failing installation, not a live-cd.
Last edited by Pse (2013-09-30 19:40:34)
Offline
Can you boot to the command line or rescue environment?
CLI Paste | How To Ask Questions
Arch Linux | x86_64 | GPT | EFI boot | refind | stub loader | systemd | LVM2 on LUKS
Lenovo x270 | Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz | Intel Wireless 8265/8275 | US keyboard w/ Euro | 512G NVMe INTEL SSDPEKKF512G7L
Offline
Nope. With the Grub argumebt rescue, this chznges nothing, it seems to block way before.
I'll try to netconsole with my RPi. I'll give infos when it's done. Thanks.
EDIT: okay, that'll be a little more diffcult than expected, I have only access to wifi...
Last edited by Eiyeron (2013-10-02 16:19:35)
Offline
Did you manage to downgrade to previous kernel via chroot.
The short cuts are only short because they don't actually go anywhere. -- Trilby
Nothing feels better than being understood -- awayand
A pathetic dreamer
Offline
Never did something like downgrade. I can't netconsole through a wpa network. Can i
i just plug the RPi to the computer, and netconsole like this?
Offline
Never did something like downgrade. I can't netconsole through a wpa network. Can i
i just plug the RPi to the computer, and netconsole like this?
It should work. Don't forget to manually configure the IP address of the RPi.
Offline
NOthing. I get nothing.
I plugged directly the Rpi to my laptop with an ether cable. RPi address : 192.168.1.42 (with/ot netmask 24), nc -u -l -p 6666, and laptop command line adding : netconsole 6666@192.168.1.42/mac_address_of_RPi.
The RPi gets absolutely nothing... :S I was sure that the network workjed (I succesfully remebered enough network lessons to make ping work between them! )
Note: I tried to turn on kernel.ctrl-alt-del option in sysctl... No reaction. BUt it reboots in a arch-chroot. SYsctl doesn't seem to be loaded.
Offline
I already gave the last day. I'll reboot to send the whole journal
Edit: Here
Aug 27 22:14:27 Arch-Eiyeron systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit display-manager.service, ignoring: Unit display-manager.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status display-manager.service' for details.
maybe relevant ?
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=145075
Last edited by NikTh (2013-10-12 16:32:07)
KISS my Arch
Offline
THe problem here is not really the screen. I should too see the ShiftLock or NumLock LEDs change when I press the related keys, but nothing change too.
Offline
Note: I tried to turn on kernel.ctrl-alt-del option in sysctl... No reaction. BUt it reboots in a arch-chroot. SYsctl doesn't seem to be loaded.
CLI Paste | How To Ask Questions
Arch Linux | x86_64 | GPT | EFI boot | refind | stub loader | systemd | LVM2 on LUKS
Lenovo x270 | Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz | Intel Wireless 8265/8275 | US keyboard w/ Euro | 512G NVMe INTEL SSDPEKKF512G7L
Offline
Aw right ><'
Offline
I just tried to boot from the last Live CD, and it fail to load as it does with the installed kernel....
Offline
Pages: 1