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mousse

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[SOLVED] Stuck on start up message "/dev/... clean" after upgrade

Hi,

So, today, I upgraded my Arch with

sudo pacman -Syu

and rebooted. After the startup, it started with the usual

Starting arch version...
/dev/... clean

thingy, but this time it's stuck. My cursor is visible and I can move it.
After searching for some times, I think my sddm or PAM is broken, but I'm not sure what to do.

My setup is:
Dual boot arch and win10
arch and win is on nvme ssd, /home is on hdd
Xorg, sddm, and KDE
Intel processor with integrated card plus nvidia dedicated

I went to tty2 to see journalctl,
Here is my

journalctl -b

output: http://0x0.st/obGX.txt

Please let me know if you need more log/output. Thank you very much for your help.

Last edited by mousse (2022-04-11 08:51:31)

mousse

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck on start up message "/dev/... clean" after upgrade

I think i got this temporarily solved for now
After hours of searching, I found out that this is a problem with the "mesa" package, downgrading it from 22.0.1-3 to 22.0.0-1 fixed the issue.

mousse

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck on start up message "/dev/... clean" after upgrade

Do I just ignore "mesa" package on upgrade for now? I'm worried I might break other packages' dependencies or break my whole system if I ignore it

I'll reopen this issue until I get a permanent solution
Thanks

Last edited by mousse (2022-04-11 04:05:00)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck on start up message "/dev/... clean" after upgrade

You're crashing in the iris GL plugin on shader compilation.
This is a completely blind guess, but does it work when you globally (/etc/profile.d/somescript.sh)

export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/dri/iris_dri.so

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mousse

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck on start up message "/dev/... clean" after upgrade

You're crashing in the iris GL plugin on shader compilation.
This is a completely blind guess, but does it work when you globally (/etc/profile.d/somescript.sh)

export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/dri/iris_dri.so

Hi,
I tried it and it's still stuck.

Could this be something related to this thread?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SDDM#B … eter_shows
https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/1179
so the problem may be related to sddm?
Looking at /var/log/pacman.log, sddm got no update since I installed in on February
I also updated sddm-kcm on April 3rd, but the problem didn't occur.

EDIT: I tried switching to lightdm, and it's working with the latest mesa package

Last edited by mousse (2022-04-11 08:26:36)

mousse

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck on start up message "/dev/... clean" after upgrade

Following from this thread:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=225464
that links to this thread:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=216223,

it turns out it has something to do with this "memory is full" part:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SDDM#B … eter_shows

Blank screen with cursor, but no greeter shows
Greeter crashes if there is no available disk space. Check your disk space with df -h.

It's not my storage that is full, but I think the package cache.
So, I cleared ~/.cache and /var/lib/sddm/.cache, and sddm starts working again.

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck on start up message "/dev/... clean" after upgrade

The package cache is in /var/cache/pacman/pkg and can be cleared w/ "pacman -Scc"
If you're running out of disk space, you might want to consider that because the other caches will be rebuild pretty soon by sddm and the software you run (notably your browser)

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mousse

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck on start up message "/dev/... clean" after upgrade

If you're running out of disk space

Hi,
thanks for your reply

I still got hundreds of GBs left in my / and /home partition, so I don't think that's the problem.
Does package cache have it's limit itself? Independent of the disk space?

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck on start up message "/dev/... clean" after upgrade

No. Do you have a separate /var partition?
Otherwise I assume the problem was actually in some cached data from SDDM that got invalidated or fell incompatible w/ the updated version and needed to be rebuilt.

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mousse

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Re: [SOLVED] Stuck on start up message "/dev/... clean" after upgrade

No. Do you have a separate /var partition?

No, I don't.

Otherwise I assume the problem was actually in some cached data from SDDM that got invalidated or fell incompatible w/ the updated version and needed to be rebuilt.

Yeah, I conclude this too.