[SOLVED]Arch does not start after updating kernel or installing driver

lxhlx · 2018-10-21 02:07:28

Hello,

I tell you my problem. A couple of days ago, my Arch worked fine, however, it would always freeze at some point. I opted to think that they were the drivers, so I updated my kernel and then did a pacman -S nvidia

However, after restarting, I was not carrying anything anymore, that is to say, it appears [ OK ] Reached target Graphical Interface

I decided to go to the official site of Nvidia and download my drivers, for later, put nvidia-xconfig and after reboot, the message stopped showing up. But as it was in "Starting light display manager" I put systemctl enable lightdm.service and systemctl start lightdm.service but it came back out the problem of [ OK ] Reached target Graphical Interface

I do not really know what to do. I have done many things that do not work and I have reviewed posts like these but it does not work:
https://github.com/deadhead420/anarchy-linux/issues/668

Next, I will leave the respective characteristics of my computer and also, the logs produced by my system.

My computer features:
Asus Rog Strix
Nvidia GEFORCE GTX 1050Ti
Intel Core i7 7th Gen

The logs:
dmesg - log: https://www.pastiebin.com/5bcbdcf20ef0a
journalctl -b --unit lightdm.service - log: https://www.pastiebin.com/5bcbdd5592139
lightdm - conf: https://www.pastiebin.com/5bcbdd7682e57
lightdm - log: https://www.pastiebin.com/5bcbddb3188d4
xorg -conf: https://www.pastiebin.com/5bcbddd370920
Xorg.0.log : https://www.pastiebin.com/5bcbde0364251
.xinitrc : exec startxfce4

The problem looks like this:

I'd appreciate your help!

Last edited by lxhlx (2018-10-21 19:24:08)

Trilby · 2018-10-21 02:30:49

First, update your system. Have you been doing partial upgrades? How/why have you updated the kernel yet you have an old version of Xorg?

Then try changing to another tty and stopping lightdm and try startx or xinit.

Last edited by Trilby (2018-10-21 02:31:36)

lxhlx · 2018-10-21 03:32:44

Trilby wrote:

First, update your system. Have you been doing partial upgrades? How/why have you updated the kernel yet you have an old version of Xorg?
Then try changing to another tty and stopping lightdm and try startx or xinit.

Hi, I just updated the system but nothing that is solved. Once I updated it, I stopped the lightdm.service and put startx. Then restart and the message does not appear [ OK ] Reached target Graphical Interface but it remains in [ OK ] Started Light Display Manager.

The answer to your question, was because after trying several things, in many places they said it was a Xorg bug, so I did a downgrade but it did not work either. I'm really a little frustrated.

Trilby · 2018-10-21 04:02:59

lxhlx wrote:

I stopped the lightdm.service and put startx.

And did xfce properly start?

Have you previously modified /etc/nsswitch.conf?

Last edited by Trilby (2018-10-21 04:07:01)

lxhlx · 2018-10-21 04:15:33

Trilby wrote:

lxhlx wrote:
I stopped the lightdm.service and put startx.
And did xfce properly start?
Have you previously modified /etc/nsswitch.conf?

When I put startx, warnings come out of xfce4-session: impossible to find the engine of issues in the route to _modulo: murrine

Now he is staying in [ OK ] Started Accounts Service.

No, I have not modified that file...

Last edited by lxhlx (2018-10-21 04:21:27)

lxhlx · 2018-10-21 06:52:13

Trilby wrote:

lxhlx wrote:
I stopped the lightdm.service and put startx.
And did xfce properly start?
Have you previously modified /etc/nsswitch.conf?

I have a question. I could uninstall what is xfce and then install gdm or another desktop environment? With that would it work and I would not get these errors? Would my information be lost?

V1del · 2018-10-21 10:32:58

No it wouldn't, remove the nvidia-xconfig generated xorg.conf (also elaborate on "downloaded drivers from nvidia's website" what did you do with them? Did you install them? don't do that, use the repo packages). You have an Optimus system, to enable usage of the nvidia card you will have to read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA_Optimus and add the appropriate configuration lines to either the right lightdm file or into your .xinitrc (which is irregardless of any of this incomplete as well, read the second blue note

lxhlx · 2018-10-21 14:23:48

V1del wrote:

No it wouldn't, remove the nvidia-xconfig generated xorg.conf (also elaborate on "downloaded drivers from nvidia's website" what did you do with them? Did you install them? don't do that, use the repo packages). You have an Optimus system, to enable usage of the nvidia card you will have to read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA_Optimus and add the appropriate configuration lines to either the right lightdm file or into your .xinitrc (which is irregardless of any of this incomplete as well, read the second blue note

When you refer to "no, I would not do it", do you mean that it would not solve my problem to delete the xfce and install gnome for example?.

Yes, I installed these drivers from the official nvidia site: https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverR … 8959/en-us

I will try with what you have mentioned, however, I would like you to answer the previous question, because then, I would not mind losing the desk knowing that my arch worked correctly with a new one

Last edited by lxhlx (2018-10-21 14:30:34)

Trilby · 2018-10-21 14:33:26

XFCE works fine, you just need to follow the wiki to set up your system.

lxhlx · 2018-10-21 15:40:30

Trilby wrote:

XFCE works fine, you just need to follow the wiki to set up your system.

I have reinstalled the XORG, tried with bumblebee but it has not worked. Keep putting the Reached Target Graphical Interface. I asked about XFCE, to see if removing it and putting another one was solved. For example, gnome + gdm, this would not work either?

loqs · 2018-10-21 16:06:11

Please post the contents of all configuration files you created / amended when configuring bumblebee and an updated Xorg.0.log
The logs you have provided do not indicate an xfce issue so there is no reason to believe changing that would resolve the issue.
Edit:
spelling contents not conetnts

Last edited by loqs (2018-10-21 16:06:38)

Trilby · 2018-10-21 16:20:13

LightDM is more likely to be problematic than XFCE. But more importantly, DMs in general make troubleshooting more complicated than it needs to be.

This is why I suggested stopping lightdm and just using startx to see if that's where the problem was. I'd now suggest stopping and disabling lightdm and only work with startx until your x session is working. At that point you can add lightdm back if you want.

lxhlx · 2018-10-21 16:33:37

loqs wrote:

Please post the contents of all configuration files you created / amended when configuring bumblebee and an updated Xorg.0.log
The logs you have provided do not indicate an xfce issue so there is no reason to believe changing that would resolve the issue.
Edit:
spelling contents not conetnts

dmesg: https://www.pastiebin.com/5bcca759376ef
lightdm log: https://www.pastiebin.com/5bcca774224bb
Xorg log: https://www.pastiebin.com/5bcca79d07b70

Now when I put systemctl, the lightdm.service is in 'failed'.

lxhlx · 2018-10-21 16:35:15

Trilby wrote:

LightDM is more likely to be problematic than XFCE. But more importantly, DMs in general make troubleshooting more complicated than it needs to be.
This is why I suggested stopping lightdm and just using startx to see if that's where the problem was. I'd now suggest stopping and disabling lightdm and only work with startx until your x session is working. At that point you can add lightdm back if you want.

It would not be good solution to remove lightdm and install another ?. I thought it was a problem with the graphics card driver (by the output of 'Reached target Graphical Interface')

loqs · 2018-10-21 16:41:20

Are you trying to configure the system to use bumblebee or optimus? Currently X appears to still be using a config generated by nvidia-xconfig which will cause the issue you are expericing.
Are you still using the drivers you manually installed from the nvidia website?

lxhlx · 2018-10-21 16:43:26

loqs wrote:

Are you trying to configure the system to use bumblebee or optimus? Currently X appears to still be using a config generated by nvidia-xconfig which will cause the issue you are expericing.
Are you still using the drivers you manually installed from the nvidia website?

What I did was uninstall the nvidia that I installed from the official website and rm the files manually. Then, install Bumblebee and nvidia, but I have not tried with optimus because I can not find how to install it correctly. Check the guide that happened to me above, but it appears as it is the correct configuration, but not how it is installed

loqs · 2018-10-21 16:49:13

Either bumblebee or optimus should work with your system's hardware. Bubleblee will not work with the /etc/X11/Xorg.conf generated by nvidia-xconfig.
You might also want to check `pacman -Qkk` for files that need to be reinstalled after manually installing the drivers from the nvidia website.

lxhlx · 2018-10-21 16:58:49

loqs wrote:

Either bumblebee or optimus should work with your system's hardware. Bubleblee will not work with the /etc/X11/Xorg.conf generated by nvidia-xconfig.
You might also want to check `pacman -Qkk` for files that need to be reinstalled after manually installing the drivers from the nvidia website.

Then what should I do? delete the xorg.conf? and then?. After doing the pacman -Qkk if there are "warnings", but should I install them manually?

loqs · 2018-10-21 17:01:29

Yes delete the xorg.conf. Stop and disable lightdm. Run startx and see post the updated xorg.log also post the output of `pacman -Qkk`

lxhlx · 2018-10-21 17:11:44

loqs wrote:

Yes delete the xorg.conf. Stop and disable lightdm. Run startx and see post the updated xorg.log also post the output of `pacman -Qkk`

Xorg.0.log : https://www.pastiebin.com/5bccb313793ad
pacman -Qkk : https://www.pastiebin.com/5bccb32e76a53

loqs · 2018-10-21 17:18:48

What are the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d?

lxhlx · 2018-10-21 17:21:36

loqs wrote:

What are the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d?

In /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d:
00-keyboard.conf
20-nvidia.conf

In /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d:
10-nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf
10-quirks.conf
40-libinput.conf
nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf

loqs · 2018-10-21 17:26:00

pacman -Qo usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf

What is the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf and /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf ?

lxhlx · 2018-10-21 17:31:16

loqs wrote:

pacman -Qo usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf
What is the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf and /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf ?

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf : https://www.pastiebin.com/5bccb78400cb2
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf : https://www.pastiebin.com/5bccb7ab85736

pacman -Qo usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf

Output: error: no package contains /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf

loqs · 2018-10-21 17:39:42

Please delete / rename both those files and try startx again.

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