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Hi,
I have a cheap mini-pc to watch youtube, etc.
Arch successfully ran on it for a while, but then just ... stopped working, from one day to another (didn't even do an update).
Once the boot process is finished, it just freezes.
With the regular system, it freezes at
[OK] Reached target graphical interface
but even when trying to boot the (non-graphical) arch live system, it hangs at the point where it's supposed to start the shell ... can't switch TTYs,
ctrl-alt-del doesn't do anything, no reaction to keypresses.
Up until that moment, everything seems fine.
Any hints ? Maybe the hardware is shot, but I can't tell ...
Best,
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Boot from USB and check the journal.
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Can't even boot from USB, as I mentioned before ... I took the disk out and chrooted into it, but the last boot I can see in the journal is the last successful one ... and a corrupted journal file.
The last journal seemed fine, no obvious hint for errors ...
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Try with an older ISO, then.
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Ad/or also to boot w/ "nomodeset"
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Hmm 'nomodeset' didn't help either, except that I could see a message that I couldn't see before:
[ 21.543818] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: wmi unified ready event not received
Could that be a hint ?
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No.
Can you boot eg. an older grml?
https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/grml//
However
stopped working, from one day to another (didn't even do an update)
and everything else suggests that this is a WH issue and apparently it's not the GPU.
Can you ping the frozen system?
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Same problem with grml (from 2020) ... didn't try to ping but I'd be surprised if it even attaches to any network.
So ... probably it's the hardware ... the internal SSD failed a while ago, I was booting from an SD card recently.
Guess that happens with super-cheap devices ...
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