[Solved] Arch seems to freeze during boot.

zappathustra · 2017-10-21 20:33:12

Hello there,

I've bought a second-hand Toshiba Satellite C875D with Windows 8 on it. At first I'd keep it, who knows, but then I couldn't get GRUB to work on that UEFI/GPT stuff, so I wiped the disk clean, converted it to BIOS/MBR, and installed Arch (all that is what I *think* I have done; the GPT-MBR affair is quite obscure to me; so perhaps I did something wrong). I mention all that because, from browsing around, it seems it might be related to the problem at hand (including the computer's model), which is:

When I boot, first I've got the following messages (never seen them on my other computers):

[ 7.997517] piix4_smbus 0000:00:14.0: SMBus base address index regions 0xcd6 a
[ 8.048583] sp5100_tco: I/O address 0x0cd6 already in use
[ 8.681229] wdat_wdt wdat_wdt: can't request region for resource [mem 0xfec00
[FAILED] Failed to start Load/Save Screen Backlight Brightness of backlight:acpi_video0
See 'systemctl status systemd-backlight@backlight:acpi_video.service' for details
               Starting Load/Save Screen Backlight Brightness of backlight:radeon_b10...

and then some of the usual OK lines starting this and that, then that one:

[ OK ] Reached target Graphical Interface.

and then the cursor blinking on its own line, and nothing happens. I can start another terminal with Ctrl+Alt+F2, and it seems to work correctly, but I must admit I don't know what to do there. Disabling the service mentioned in the FAILED message makes things even worse: the computer hangs after the first three lines.

I have not the slightest clue what all that could mean, so I'm totally unable to fix anything. Maybe a fresh install is in order, but before I do that I was wondering if anybody here could help.

Paul

Last edited by zappathustra (2017-10-22 10:34:19)

jasonwryan · 2017-10-21 20:38:35

What is the graphical target?

zappathustra · 2017-10-21 22:21:14

jasonwryan wrote:

What is the graphical target?

What is *a* graphical target?
Meaning: what should I look at?

jasonwryan · 2017-10-21 22:24:00

I mean what are you expecting to happen? When you installed Arch, you set it up to run some sort of graphical environment: what is that?

Then, read your journal for entries relating to that.

zappathustra · 2017-10-22 10:33:55

The target was X, and I found nothing relevant (or rather, nothing I could understand) in the journal. Suspecting I might have been a bit sloppy during the installation, I simply installed again, and now it works.

Thanks anyway!

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#1 2017-10-21 20:33:12

[Solved] Arch seems to freeze during boot.

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