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watchfulpickle

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Registered: 2022-03-08

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Stuck "Starting version 250.3-4-arch"

Hi!
I'm having trouble installing Arch on my Lenovo Ideapad 3. Grub boots fine, but hitches when I try to launch Arch.

I'm stuck on "/dev/mapper/volgroup0-lv_root: clean, xxx/xxx files, xxx/xxx blocks". The number of files and blocks increases slightly every time I attempt to boot.

I do not get a consistent result when removing the quiet tag either. There is no answer, just a freeze. I've reinstalled multiple times and am confident I have not made any errors.

If anyone knows what is going wrong I would be very appreciative, thank you!

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,285

Re: Stuck "Starting version 250.3-4-arch"

Could be a lot of causes, normally this often happens with graphics drivers initialising too late, did you set up a graphical boot? try booting with nomodeset and/or the debug parameter, or if that doesn't work let it fail, boot into the live disk, chroot in and check whether a journal was written with e.g.

journalctl -b

and post that: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … n_services

watchfulpickle

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Registered: 2022-03-08

Posts: 4

Re: Stuck "Starting version 250.3-4-arch"

Could be a lot of causes, normally this often happens with graphics drivers initialising too late, did you set up a graphical boot? try booting with nomodeset and/or the debug parameter, or if that doesn't work let it fail, boot into the live disk, chroot in and check whether a journal was written with e.g.

journalctl -b

and post that: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … n_services

This worked, thank you!

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,285

Re: Stuck "Starting version 250.3-4-arch"

What worked? None of my suggestions were meant as permanent solutions but rather ways to pinpoint the problem and none of them should actually remain present on a healthy to be normally used system. If nomodeset "worked" then you'll get to a terminal but likely not much further if you want to do anything graphical. If the nomodeset worked either post the logs from a previous/failing boot with journalctl -b-1 or try enabling early KMS support: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel … _KMS_start

pallas

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Registered: 2021-02-21

Posts: 1

Re: Stuck "Starting version 250.3-4-arch"

Hi, I came up with the same issue.

the starting process freezes on

Starting version 250.4-1-arch"

/dev/sda3:  clean, xxx/xxx files, xxx/xxx blocks". 

I waited for like 30 seconds until there's an error message and successfully booted into the system.

the error message can be seen with

journalctl -b

it says

Timed out waiting for device /dev/disk/by-uuid/62db49b4-067f-4bca-978b-6ebf574219cf

Dependency failed for /dev/disk/by-uuid//dev/disk/by-uuid/62db49b4-067f-4bca-978b-6ebf574219cf

Dependency failed for Swaps

What went wrong? What can I do?

Last edited by pallas (2022-03-14 16:20:33)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,285

Re: Stuck "Starting version 250.3-4-arch"

Generally don't rely on /dev/sda anything being stable and  otherwise post your fstab and

lsblk -f

you either have a device in your fstab (... maybe in the initramfs) that doesn't exist or doesn't exist in that form anymore.