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uugh-_-

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[Solved] stuck on boot after pacman -Syu, unable to load init system

A while ago i did a pacman -Syu but when i rebooted the system hanged after i selected which kernel to boot with in GRUB, since i was on vacation and wasn't able to address it until now.
I tried setting the init system to /bin/bash but it still didn't boot so i assume it is somehow related to the bootloader. I tried chrooting into the system and did another pacman -Syu (a good while since last system update due to vacation), reinstalled grub and the microcode, and ran mkinitcpio -P.

journalctl from failed boot: https://0x0.st/o2Db.txt
dmesg from failed boot: https://0x0.st/o2DQ.txt
pacman log from update that caused the hang: https://0x0.st/o2Dd.txt

Last edited by uugh-_- (2022-08-16 14:27:42)

Scimmia

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Re: [Solved] stuck on boot after pacman -Syu, unable to load init system

What does 'hanged' mean, exactly? That journal shows it booted just fine.

seth

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Re: [Solved] stuck on boot after pacman -Syu, unable to load init system

Aug 15 22:00:26 arch systemd-modules-load[322]: apply: /usr/lib/modules-load.d/nvidia-utils.conf
Aug 15 22:00:26 arch systemd-modules-load[322]: Loading module: nvidia-uvm
Aug 15 22:00:26 arch systemd-modules-load[322]: Failed to find module 'nvidia-uvm'
Aug 15 22:00:26 arch systemd-udevd[335]: Reading rules file: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-nvidia.rules
Aug 15 22:00:27 arch python3[624]: modinfo: ERROR: Module nvidia not found.
Aug 15 22:00:27 arch python3[626]: modinfo: ERROR: Module nvidia_drm not found.
Aug 15 22:00:27 arch python3[627]: modinfo: ERROR: Module nvidia_modeset not found.
Aug 15 22:00:27 arch python3[628]: modinfo: ERROR: Module nvidia_uvm not found.

There's no other VGA device, likely nvidia-utils causing

Aug 15 22:00:26 arch systemd-udevd[373]: Module 'nouveau' is deny-listed

but there's no kernel package installed.

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uugh-_-

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Registered: 2020-10-24

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Re: [Solved] stuck on boot after pacman -Syu, unable to load init system

What does 'hanged' mean, exactly? That journal shows it booted just fine.

It froze and didn't respond to any keyboard input.

I was going to provide a journal from another failed boot but now the system booted fine. It would be nice to know what the problem was though, but hopefully it doesn't happen in the future.

Aug 15 22:00:26 arch systemd-modules-load[322]: apply: /usr/lib/modules-load.d/nvidia-utils.conf
Aug 15 22:00:26 arch systemd-modules-load[322]: Loading module: nvidia-uvm
Aug 15 22:00:26 arch systemd-modules-load[322]: Failed to find module 'nvidia-uvm'
Aug 15 22:00:26 arch systemd-udevd[335]: Reading rules file: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-nvidia.rules
Aug 15 22:00:27 arch python3[624]: modinfo: ERROR: Module nvidia not found.
Aug 15 22:00:27 arch python3[626]: modinfo: ERROR: Module nvidia_drm not found.
Aug 15 22:00:27 arch python3[627]: modinfo: ERROR: Module nvidia_modeset not found.
Aug 15 22:00:27 arch python3[628]: modinfo: ERROR: Module nvidia_uvm not found.

There's no other VGA device, likely nvidia-utils causing

Aug 15 22:00:26 arch systemd-udevd[373]: Module 'nouveau' is deny-listed

but there's no kernel package installed.

Thanks, the system somehow booted successfully today, but i will check it out.

Last edited by uugh-_- (2022-08-16 13:43:49)

uugh-_-

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Registered: 2020-10-24

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Re: [Solved] stuck on boot after pacman -Syu, unable to load init system

Aug 15 22:00:26 arch systemd-modules-load[322]: apply: /usr/lib/modules-load.d/nvidia-utils.conf
Aug 15 22:00:26 arch systemd-modules-load[322]: Loading module: nvidia-uvm
Aug 15 22:00:26 arch systemd-modules-load[322]: Failed to find module 'nvidia-uvm'
Aug 15 22:00:26 arch systemd-udevd[335]: Reading rules file: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-nvidia.rules
Aug 15 22:00:27 arch python3[624]: modinfo: ERROR: Module nvidia not found.
Aug 15 22:00:27 arch python3[626]: modinfo: ERROR: Module nvidia_drm not found.
Aug 15 22:00:27 arch python3[627]: modinfo: ERROR: Module nvidia_modeset not found.
Aug 15 22:00:27 arch python3[628]: modinfo: ERROR: Module nvidia_uvm not found.

There's no other VGA device, likely nvidia-utils causing

Aug 15 22:00:26 arch systemd-udevd[373]: Module 'nouveau' is deny-listed

but there's no kernel package installed.

I run nvidia-dkms due to running a custom kernel and I didn't get those errors when running the linux-zen kernel. Now i noticed i didn't have linux-headers installed *facepalm*.

Thanks a lot!