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DarkMIR4GE

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Registered: 2019-07-19

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[SOLVED] Not going to the Graphical Interface

I am only getting a white screen with the error message "Oh no! Something has gone wrong" on booting into Arch. I can access a terminal version via Alt+Ctrl+F4, but that's it

I recently reallocated some space between the disks but everything was working pretty fine afterwards.

I also made a /etc/X11/20-intel.conf to tackle the firefox lagging problem, taking advice from Arch wiki. I did those 3 steps mentioned there. (All except the vsync one that is). Firefox stopped working after some time and when I tried to reboot this happened.

I tried removing that file, but there's no change.
I have also tried uninstalling nvidia as mentioned in some forum answers.

Arch Linux - GDM - Gnome

Edit:
I also saw this error message within terminal just before login.

nouveau 0000:01:00:0: bus: MMIO read of 00000000 FAULT at 6013d4 [ IBUS ]

I did a huge update today too; if that info helps.

Last edited by DarkMIR4GE (2020-05-22 05:27:23)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Not going to the Graphical Interface

Post a journal and a xorg log after a log in attempt

sudo journalctl -b

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Li … in_clients

DarkMIR4GE

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Registered: 2019-07-19

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Re: [SOLVED] Not going to the Graphical Interface

Post a journal and a xorg log after a log in attempt

Journal: http://ix.io/2mUC
Xorg Log: http://ix.io/2mUF

I also saw this error message within terminal just before login.

nouveau 0000:01:00:0: bus: MMIO read of 00000000 FAULT at 6013d4 [ IBUS ]

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Not going to the Graphical Interface

Please post the contents of /var/log/pacman.log

DarkMIR4GE

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Re: [SOLVED] Not going to the Graphical Interface

Please post the contents of /var/log/pacman.log

Pacman Log: http://ix.io/2mV2

Moopy

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Registered: 2020-03-02

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Re: [SOLVED] Not going to the Graphical Interface

Without knowing what your computer is like, it looks to me like you don't have any video drivers installed

[    56.259] (EE) Failed to load module "intel" (module does not exist, 0)

Maybe installing will help https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xo … stallation

What's your

lspci | grep -e 3D -e VGA

?

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Not going to the Graphical Interface

The Xorg.log is much older than the journal containing the core dump

[    55.931] Current Operating System: Linux Arch-Linux 5.2.2-arch1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jul 21 19:18:34 UTC 2019 x86_64

Could be explained by system switching to using Wayland from X due to a GDM package upgrade.

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Not going to the Graphical Interface

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/66666#comment189537 mentions mesa 20.0.7-2 may be affected by the same issue as 20.0.7-1 if you downgrade mesa and lib32-mesa to 19.1.7-1 can you reproduce the issue?
Edit:
Sorry meant this post to be an edit to my previous post.

Last edited by loqs (2020-05-21 21:31:25)

DarkMIR4GE

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Re: [SOLVED] Not going to the Graphical Interface

Maybe installing will help https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xo … stallation

I had uninstalled nvidida-utils after this problem, taking advice from some forum answers. I just installed

• xf86-video-intel

• xf86-video-nouveau

following the link you provided. It doesn't make any difference

What's your

lspci | grep -e 3D -e VGA

?

Output: http://ix.io/2mX3

EDIT:
Updating the system after adding those drivers did the trick.
Thanks a lot; V1del, loqs and Moopy

I installed

• nvidia

• nvidia-utils

• lib32-nvidia-utils

again, as I saw that wasn't the issue anyway. I don't know much about this, but having multiple drivers is not unfavorable is it?

Last edited by DarkMIR4GE (2020-05-22 05:26:19)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Not going to the Graphical Interface

Not necessarily, however there're some things to consider with your setup.
a) you were running gdm on wayland, so installing a bunch of X11 drivers was probably not the actual solution
b) Gnome on wayland will probably not work on the nividia (kernel) Driver
c) Gnome on wayland does afaik not yet support an optimus setup (running games on the nvidia chip)

The problem might have been the iris driver: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … ver_(i965)

You might want to inspect the journal on what you're running atm.

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Moopy

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Re: [SOLVED] Not going to the Graphical Interface

Glad to see it worked out!

again, as I saw that wasn't the issue anyway. I don't know much about this, but having multiple drivers is not unfavorable is it?

I am by no means an expert either but to my understanding, your operating system will try to load video drivers in a particular order. If it doesn't find one driver, it moves on to the next so it shouldn't be a problem having multiple drivers.

Also the nvidia driver should blacklist nouveau IIRC