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abdullahalam

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Registered: 2017-07-04

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Network, acpi, X broke simultaneously.

Last night, I hooked up an extra Screen via the HDMI port, and it worked fine. I also ran a pacman -Syu after a couple of days, so it was a considerable upgrade.

When I turned on the machine this morning, startx was no longer working. All it said was that it could not find the screen. I couldn't figure out what the error was, so I thought of checking for a upgrade to the xorg group. Thus, I attempted to connect to wifi. Well, that returned an error too. It couldn't find my wifi device. Thus, I connected my Ethernet cable, and there was no Internet connection there either.

I ran

ip link

and it only returned the loopback. Also, acpi events which I had configured for the Function keys to change brightness and volume levels no longer worked either.

After spending countless hours searching the forums for solutions, I (shudder) went ahead and re-installed arch. The process went smoothly, I've installed arch on multiple machines before. These problems were present on a fresh install too!

Even my fresh install can't detect my network devices. Because of which, I can't even install xorg to check whether that is working.

Network connections work fine on Windows 10 dual booted on the same system. Heck, even running ip link  on the live USB correctly showed my Wifi and Ethernet devices. I am completely lost as to what could have gone wrong so much, that even a complete format and re-install is not fixing it.

Apologies if this is the wrong section, I posted it under Installation as the problem is occuring on a fresh install. I realize it could be under Kernel and Hardware or Networking too, it just seemed relevant here.

Last edited by abdullahalam (2017-08-05 09:03:02)

jasonwryan

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Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: Network, acpi, X broke simultaneously.

Paste the output of `pacman -Q linux && uname -r` in all likelihood, your /boot was not mounted for the upgrade.

Not an Installation issue, moving to NC...

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