[SOLVED] Fresh Install Won't Start Properly

justasug · 2014-08-03 17:17:31

After installing Arch and rebooting, Arch doesn't start up completely. It stops responding directly after the GRUB screen. Here's what it says during the lock-up (the numbers aren't exact, just wrote some random ones, but I can write down the exact ones if needed):

/dev/sda2: clean, 1351245/61361631 files, 5325245/431513513 blocks

Once it comes to that screen, it's completely frozen and I have to restart it with the hardware button. What's weird is that sometimes it goes past that screen and works fine, but on other occasions it doesn't. I'm pretty sure that I installed everything properly (did it a few times in a VM and on another PC without any issues). I searched the forums and someone said to verify the journal and there are indeed issues there (but I don't know if those are related):

http://i.imgur.com/Z40pi5W.png

However, I completely reinstalled Arch again (couple of times) and the journal issue disappeared, but it still won't start up every time. What could be causing this? I'm pretty sure the hardware is fine, because I tried other GNU/Linux distributions and they all worked properly.

EDIT:
Solved it. I installed the linux-lts kernel and now it boots properly every time.
EDIT 2: kernel 3.16.4 works fine now, no need for the LTS one.

Last edited by justasug (2015-01-28 09:47:28)

SpacePirate · 2014-08-03 20:05:18

You could try and remove the "quiet" option while booting, maybe you can see the error then.
To do it for one boot press "e" while in grub and edit the entry, to have it on every boot edit the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in /etc/default/grub, after that run grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.

Last edited by SpacePirate (2014-08-03 20:05:27)

justasug · 2014-08-04 12:12:04

Okay, I've done that. It freezes after either of these 2:

[ OK ] Started Update UTMP about System Boot/Shutdown.
[ OK ] Started Trigger FLushing of Journal to Persistent Storage.

http://i.imgur.com/HZNph03.jpg

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clfarron4 · 2014-08-04 12:24:02

Looks like it's time to go through these: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bo … bug_levels

Trilby · 2014-08-04 12:37:24

As a simpler first step - which probably wont work, but it's so simple it's worth a try: try switching to other ttys by pressing Alt+F# where F# is any of the function keys (F2, F3, etc).

justasug · 2014-08-04 16:48:16

Trilby wrote:

As a simpler first step - which probably wont work, but it's so simple it's worth a try: try switching to other ttys by pressing Alt+F# where F# is any of the function keys (F2, F3, etc).

Doesn't work. Nothing is responding.

clfarron4 wrote:

Looks like it's time to go through these: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bo … bug_levels

Eh, that looks like it's way over my head, no idea what I'm looking at. Thanks for the suggestion though. Perhaps I should just accept this. It could after all be a hardware issue (using an old HP Pavilion DV4 laptop).

mahesmohan · 2014-08-04 19:22:31

I have the same issue.

The only difference is that I installed arch linux onto a USB Drive. The installation seems to boot fine in my friend's laptop.

It's gotta be a hardware issue.

RichAustin · 2014-08-04 20:31:41

I've had my laptop refuse to boot a few times, and desktop's for that matter, with a new install of an OS and the workaround I used was to unplug everything non-essential. You may find it boots and then you can track down what's causing the issue.

mahesmohan · 2014-08-05 17:41:16

I'm not sure if that's gonna work. As far as I know I have only plugged in a usb keyboard and mouse along with a lan cable and a monitor.

justasug · 2014-08-06 08:44:05

Okay, I turned on the boot debugging. The sequence stops at the

fb: switching to inteldrmfb from VESA VGA

line. Any suggestions? In the meantime, I guess I'll search the internet to see if anyone else had this problem.

EDIT:
Solved it. I installed the linux-lts kernel and now it boots properly every time.
EDIT 2: kernel 3.16.4 works fine now, no need for the LTS one.

Last edited by justasug (2014-10-18 16:37:00)

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