Boot stuck at "starting version 226"

Calucinho · 2015-09-23 21:03:26

Since a few days (less than a week), when booting my laptop gets stuck at:

starting version 226
/dev/sdaX: clean, XXX/XXX files, XXX/XXX blocks

The only way for me to get my laptop to work properly is to switch to another tty, login and reboot. So each time I shutdown my laptop I have to boot AND reboot to get into my system.

Can someone help me boot normally again? I am using sddm and KF5 as my display manager and desktop environment, respectively.

x33a · 2015-09-24 05:19:08

Have you tried booting into the fallback mode?

gee · 2015-09-24 05:21:52

If you're able to log in a TTY you should look at dmesg/journalctl and see if there is any error there.
That could be a good start.

byte · 2015-09-24 09:50:00

Removing "quiet" from the kernel command line in your bootloader configuration might also give more hints.

Loose_Control · 2015-09-24 10:08:24

I have the same problem but was to lazy to check why it is happening...
Instead of a restart "systemctl restart sddm" also works for me.

The only thing i saw in systemctl status sddm is that the "sddm-helper exited with 11" whatever that means. Is there any useful doc for the error codes?

Calucinho · 2015-09-24 16:46:31

After a "pacman -Syu" yesterday I am no longer experiencing any problems at boot. I didn't do anything special to solve the problem, just the update. I hope it does not come back. If it does I will report back.

Calucinho · 2015-09-26 11:26:59

Okay I am having trouble again. In dmesg I encountered:

sddm-helper[xxx]: segfault at 14 xxx sp xxx error 4 in sddm[xxx]

This is really annoying, sometimes I have to reboot 4 four times before getting to the sddm login screen...

x33a · 2015-09-26 12:23:48

This indicates some problem with sddm. Try a different display manager and if that works, you might want to open a bug report for sddm.

anatolik · 2015-09-26 12:25:02

Every time I hear about random segfaults I suggest to check if microcode is installed https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Microcode

Calucinho · 2015-09-26 23:03:37

I just installed intel-ucode. I will report back in a few days to make sure things remain working normal.

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#1 2015-09-23 21:03:26

Boot stuck at "starting version 226"

#2 2015-09-24 05:19:08

Re: Boot stuck at "starting version 226"

#3 2015-09-24 05:21:52

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#4 2015-09-24 09:50:00

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#5 2015-09-24 10:08:24

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#6 2015-09-24 16:46:31

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#7 2015-09-26 11:26:59

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#8 2015-09-26 12:23:48

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#10 2015-09-26 23:03:37

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