After kernel upgrade, system hangs at "Starting version 251.7-4-arch"

DrLucky · 2022-11-09 21:25:29

I have kept to kernel 5.19.9-arch1-1 for some time now. I have zfs-linux and zfs-utils installed, and I keep both of those as well at linux and linux-headers listed in the 'ignore' section of pacman.conf.

Unfortunately, an openssl update breaks this version of zfs-linux. Forcing me to upgrade to kernel 6.x

The upgrade goes successfully, until reboot.
My arch install hangs at

Starting version 251.7-4-arch

Right before and never displaying the prompt to enter the cryptroot volume password.

I was able to chroot into the install, downgrade the kernel and boot into my WM sucessfully.
From there I used clonezilla to clone the boot drive for faster downgrade.

This time I uninstalled zfs-linux and zfs-utils. Then upgraded the kernel.
A reboot results in the same hanging as before at "Starting version ..."

The only other changes to my system startup are some vfio passthrough settings I've made. Could those be effecting the kernel update?

Any assistance will be greatly appreciated!

Last edited by DrLucky (2022-11-09 21:29:12)

Yusefz1 · 2022-12-13 01:36:50

Reinstall

cfr · 2022-12-13 03:32:23

Reinstallation is almost certainly unnecessary and (depending on the problem) might not even help.

V1del · 2022-12-13 03:33:11

vfio settings do have a chance to have an effect since the 6.0 kernel. Make sure that the kernel module your actual display is using is loaded early as well in your mkinitcpio.conf

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#1 2022-11-09 21:25:29

After kernel upgrade, system hangs at "Starting version 251.7-4-arch"

#2 2022-12-13 01:36:50

Re: After kernel upgrade, system hangs at "Starting version 251.7-4-arch"

#3 2022-12-13 03:32:23

Re: After kernel upgrade, system hangs at "Starting version 251.7-4-arch"

#4 2022-12-13 03:33:11

Re: After kernel upgrade, system hangs at "Starting version 251.7-4-arch"

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