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nicbot

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[SOLVED] Stuck at blinking cursor after upgrade

After issuing some package upgrades, my system doesn't seem to want to boot..

Reading this has helped me somewhat, since I am now i single user mode.

Here's a pastebin of running journalctl, if that helps.

Last edited by nicbot (2020-08-26 07:13:13)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck at blinking cursor after upgrade

Remove the "quiet" parameter and boot "nomodeset" and into the mulit-user.target (2nd link in my signature)

Does that work?
Can you boot the mulit-user.target w/o nomodeset?

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nicbot

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck at blinking cursor after upgrade

I can boot both with and without "nomodeset".

Also, now i get this error on login:

flatpak: error while loading shared libraries: libicuuc.so.64: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory 

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck at blinking cursor after upgrade

Because of

After issuing some package upgrades

Don't conduct partial updates, icu is at .67 since May.

run "pacman -Syu"

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nicbot

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck at blinking cursor after upgrade

I guess it is no surprise that I am running into more package conflicts now eh?

:: Replace compton with community/tbb? [Y/n]
:: Replace intel-tbb with extra/tbb [Y/n]
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
:: python-cysignals and python2-cysignals are in conflict. Remove python2-cysignals? [y/N]
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: python-cysignals and python2-cysignals are in conflict

Even when removing these packages, some conflict will occur down the line.

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck at blinking cursor after upgrade

pacman -Qi python2-cysignals

nicbot

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck at blinking cursor after upgrade

Version     : 1.10.2-1
Depends on  : python2   pari
Required by : python2-cypari2   python2-fpylll   python2-pplpy

Last edited by nicbot (2020-08-25 18:13:56)

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck at blinking cursor after upgrade

If you ask pacman to remove python2-cysignals python2-cypari2 python2-fpylll python2-pplpy are there any packages depending on those?

nicbot

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck at blinking cursor after upgrade

It seems to work fine, but then it runs into some other package conflict.

If I answer no:

:: xorg-fonts-alias-100dpi and xorg-fonts-alias are in conflict. Remove xorg-fonts-alias? [y/N]
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: xorg-fonts-alias-100dpi and xorg-fonts-alias are in conflict

If I answer yes:

:: xorg-fonts-alias-100dpi and xorg-fonts-alias are in conflict. Remove xorg-fonts-alias? [y/N]
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing xorgproto (2020.1-1) breaks dependency 'dmxproto' required by libdmx
:: installing xorgproto (2020.1-1) breaks dependency 'xf86dgaproto' required by libxxf86dga

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck at blinking cursor after upgrade

https://www.archlinux.org/news/xorg-cle … ervention/

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nicbot

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck at blinking cursor after upgrade

Everything works up to checking for file conflicts where this error occurs.

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
zn_poly: /usr/lib/libzn_poly-0.9.so exists in the filesystem
Errors occured, no packages were upgraded.

Should i update that particular package with force or something?

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck at blinking cursor after upgrade

"or something", yes…

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nicbot

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck at blinking cursor after upgrade

So after removing some packages and resolving conflicts, the upgrade worked.
Is it safe to reboot now?

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck at blinking cursor after upgrade

It's always safe to reboot as long as you've a live distro on a usb key…
Otherwise it's impossible to say whether a reboot will likely cause trouble, because we didn't see the update process and pot. warnings and error messages but only know, that your installation was quite a mess…

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nicbot

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck at blinking cursor after upgrade

Everything boots up as it should now!
Thank you all, I've learned my lesson...