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Yesterday I ran pacman -Syu before logging off, and today I can't log in anymore. I'm getting a lot of spam at the login prompt, and if I try to log in it just hangs.
I made a bootable USB and chroot'ed to try to run pacman again in case there was a bad package published or something. But no luck, still the same issue.
My journalctl is also empty after chroot'ing so I don't have any logs to show. I took a video so I could pause to see the messages, but the first and only one that sticks out for me is:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
Here is the video if anyone would like to take a look:
https://youtu.be/Zj5I2gAnbJw
Any tips on how to start fixing this?
Last edited by marius-arc (2016-10-24 10:17:17)
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looks like related to the wifi kernel module, broadcom.
maybe https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=146008
figure the kernel module from the live system and blacklist it in the chrooted system.
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Thanks I will try that!
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No luck, here is what I tried.
Made a .conf file in /etc/modprobe.d/ containing "blacklist broadcom-wl"
Reboot, same issue.
Added "blacklist broadcom-wl-dkms" in the same file on a new line.
Reboot, same issue.
Edited /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and added /etc/modprobe.d/myfile.conf to the FILES section.
Ran mkinitcpio -p linux.
Reboot, same issue.
Last edited by marius-arc (2016-10-24 09:59:12)
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I completely removed broadcom-wl-dkms and all is well again.
Last edited by marius-arc (2016-10-24 10:17:29)
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Why and how did you have both installed? They're conflicting.
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Why and how did you have both installed? They're conflicting.
I didn't. I had just forgotten that I had the DKMS one.
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