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xtraroot

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Registered: 2013-12-17

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[SOLVED] Screen Goes Dead Before Reaching TTY login

The screen goes dead before I can get to the tty. I cannot switch to another TTY. The problem happened spontaneously, I didn't upgrade, change any services, or install anything before this happened.  Something of note is that KDM stopped working a few days ago spontaneously, so I just dropped it in favor of no display manager.

Before this happened, my laptop was on hibernate, and when I opened it to the tty and tried to log in, the screen went dead. I could still change tty's at that point, so I checked the journal. The only thing that failed was:

Failed to open private bus connection: Failed to connect to socket /run/user/1000/dbus/user_bus_socket: No such file or directory

Would really appreciate some help, I'd rather like to have Arch on this laptop.

Last edited by xtraroot (2014-01-11 23:05:12)

xtraroot

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Registered: 2013-12-17

Posts: 59

Re: [SOLVED] Screen Goes Dead Before Reaching TTY login

Here is the output of journalctl -b -1 (after failure, got from arch-chroot):

solved

Last edited by xtraroot (2014-01-11 23:15:00)

frank604

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From: BC, Canada

Registered: 2011-04-20

Posts: 1,212

Re: [SOLVED] Screen Goes Dead Before Reaching TTY login

I had a similar situation.  Laptop mode tools was screen blanking on idle.  Would not unblank until I reboot, where I can see the output during boot but at TTY login it would fade out blank again.  Strangely, I had to login blind and startx.  From there I edited laptopmode tools to not do screen blanking until I figured out what was really happening.

Sorry if this doesn't help, just thought I'd share in hopes that it does.

xtraroot

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Registered: 2013-12-17

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Re: [SOLVED] Screen Goes Dead Before Reaching TTY login

Hey, this worked, thanks a lot! So any idea on what I would disable? I don't have laptop-mode-tools installed...

Last edited by xtraroot (2014-01-11 22:40:39)

frank604

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From: BC, Canada

Registered: 2011-04-20

Posts: 1,212

Re: [SOLVED] Screen Goes Dead Before Reaching TTY login

EDIT: Great to hear that partially worked for you.  I read your previous post wrong lol.

Last edited by frank604 (2014-01-11 23:07:06)

xtraroot

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Registered: 2013-12-17

Posts: 59

Re: [SOLVED] Screen Goes Dead Before Reaching TTY login

Well I don't have laptop mode tools installed, but I just fixed the blank screen problem by installing v86d . Thanks again.