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#1 2015-10-20 12:49:19
- shelbydz
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computer won't start - flashing nvidia logo
I've been running Arch on my work laptop since the beginning of the year. Dell Precision M4800, it has a nvidia card of sorts. Yesterday I unplugged it from the dock and went into a conference room. When I opened it back up, the main display was blank. This happens to me pretty often and the quick solution is to reboot. I did with a hard power off. After getting through grub, instead of seeing the lightdm greeter, I see the nvidia logo screen for about 1 second, then black, then the logo again, then black. And it keeps doing that. over and over.
I can't drop to a terminal. Plugging in a second monitor does nothing, that one is just blank. It does this on every bootup.
I didn't do any upgrades or make any changes to the computer. It just started doing this.
Any thoughts on how to fix this. I can get into it with a bootable USB and chroot.
thx
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#2 2015-10-20 13:46:10
- byte
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Re: computer won't start - flashing nvidia logo
> I did with a hard power off.
Did you run (full) filesystem checks?
Does 'pacman -Qkk' report missing or corrupt files?
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#3 2015-10-20 15:15:36
- shelbydz
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Re: computer won't start - flashing nvidia logo
> I did with a hard power off.
Did you run (full) filesystem checks?
Does 'pacman -Qkk' report missing or corrupt files?
running that now, I have a handful of warnings. maybe 30 or so. Most of them are 'modification time mismatch', but some are 'no such file or directory'.
will pacman fix these or do i need to renistall these?
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#4 2015-10-20 16:02:36
- byte
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Re: computer won't start - flashing nvidia logo
Did you run it as root?
Missing files shouldn't occur, please paste the output somewhere.
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#5 2015-10-20 16:32:52
- shelbydz
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Re: computer won't start - flashing nvidia logo
Did you run it as root?
Missing files shouldn't occur, please paste the output somewhere.
I'm chrooted into the environment, so that makes me root right? I am trying to paste the output, but having problems getting the warnings to output to a file (so i could scp it to my desktop to paste)
$ pacman -Qkk |grep warning > output
the file is empty. they seem to only show up on the console.
$ pacman -Qkk > output
just didn't list any of the warnings in the output, only the console.
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