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#1 2016-04-30 13:38:50
- nTia89
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systemd-boot hangs if I press any key
Hi fellows,
I've recently installed Arch over my laptop (EFI but Secure Boot disabled).
I installed systemd-boot as boot manager.
While at the initial times, systemd-boot worked fine, today I've noticed that if I press any key (e.g. I want to choose the second entry, so I press the down arrow...) systemd-boot hangs.
Laptop is freezed, e.g. caps-lock led doesn't switch, and the only way to overrun this issue is to hard reboot with the power button.
How can I solve this issue?
thank you for any advice
EDIT: I've already updated the systemd-boot installation using `sudo bootctl update`
Last edited by nTia89 (2016-04-30 15:47:48)
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#2 2016-04-30 13:50:33
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Re: systemd-boot hangs if I press any key
Try manually updating the systemd-boot .efi loader:
# bootctl updateOffline
#3 2016-04-30 13:52:23
- nTia89
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Re: systemd-boot hangs if I press any key
Try manually updating the systemd-boot .efi loader:
# bootctl update
Already done
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#4 2016-04-30 13:56:27
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Re: systemd-boot hangs if I press any key
Already done
Oh sorry, I must have missed that in your OP 
What happens if you press "t" or "T" (or any of the other boot menu keys) when the menu screen shows?
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#5 2016-04-30 16:10:09
- nTia89
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Re: systemd-boot hangs if I press any key
corrected the OP.
OK, follow me on this weird path:
I rebooted and then I pressed `t` key, getting:
Menu disabled. Hold down key at bootup to show menu.but systemd-boot hanged as well.
So, I rebooted and that time menu did not appear and Arch loaded normally.
Another reboot, this time keep `t` key down had the effect to show the menu again (with the timeout increased... fault to the key `t` repeated...).
The next reboot, when the menu appeared I pressed down `T` key in order to decrease the timeout time BUT as the problem I reported above, after the first step (from 50 seconds to 49), systemd-boot freezes!
After some attempts, I've discovered that if I keep pressed a key (I tried with `t` letter and down arrow keys) during the boot (the time between the manufacturer logo and the system loading), systemd-boot doesn't hang.
Thanks to this strange behaviour, I was able to set the proper timeout back and to choose a different menu entry.
Anyway, the issue is not fixed !!!
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#6 2016-05-09 04:38:14
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Re: systemd-boot hangs if I press any key
I have the same issue currently with systemd-boot.
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#7 2016-05-19 09:31:07
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Re: systemd-boot hangs if I press any key
I can reproduce this. The first keypress is executed but also immediately freezes the systemd-boot menu.
Also your trick of pressing a key on entering the boot menu did not work for me.
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#8 2016-05-19 09:40:01
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Re: systemd-boot hangs if I press any key
As OP has been banned and will not be returning to the forums, I'm going to go ahead and close this topic. If anyone is experiencing the same problem, please open a new topic and feel free to link to this one as a point of reference.
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