Laptop will boot but not present login prompt

moyam01 · 2016-10-14 05:12:51

My Chromebook with arch installed was working fine for several month, until recently I let my laptop die in my back in sleep mode. I have done this before without issue. Now, after the grub boot selection, it will just present me with a cursor, not showing me the login prompt.

I have included the the journalctl file in the following pastebin:

http://pastebin.com/MQPVLGGu

I believe my issues start at line 510, with the following error:

Oct 14 00:24:49 cp3 systemd[1]: proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.mount: Mount process exited, code=exited status=203

However there are additional errors related to the filesystem.

I have tried mounting with a live boot system and it does mount, and I can read and write to the mounted system, as well as use it with arch-chroot. I checked the file system using fsck.ext4 (in internal mmc drive) and it showed no errors.

Any help woukd be appreciated.

Thanks,
moyam01

duyinthee · 2016-10-14 05:30:23

it will just present me with a cursor, not showing me the login prompt.

your are using display manager?

what if you hit Control+Alt + F1,F2,F3 and so.
Can you switch tty?

Last edited by duyinthee (2016-10-14 05:31:20)

moyam01 · 2016-10-14 05:38:00

I am not using a login manager. After I log on is that X starts up display manager using xinitrc.

Changing the tty shows the same screen, no login prompt.

seth · 2016-10-14 07:49:27

edit the kernel parameters in grub and get rid of "quiet" so you can see what's going on.
Did you try the failsafe initramfs?

moyam01 · 2016-10-15 02:43:49

I receive the same errors with initramfs.

With quiet mode disabled I get the same log errors.

seth · 2016-10-15 07:10:23

mount, swap and agetty yell "exec format error" what sounds like a i686 / x86_64 messup - or a totally broken filesystem (but you ruled that out)
Assuming this is an x86_64 installation, did you maybe install an i686 kernel?

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Laptop will boot but not present login prompt

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