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Spartanz51

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Registered: 2023-01-05

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Xorg hangs since latest update (6.1.2.arch1-1)

Since latest update, I rebooted and saw a black screen with frozen underscore after decrypting my partition.

After some debugging, I found it occurs because of xorg.

I'm able to boot without DE, but it freeze if I start Xorg / configure xorg (Xorg :0 -configure)

I tried rolling back xorg-server / Nvidia / plasma
I cleaned my plasma configuration folder

But issue is still there.

6.1.2.arch1-1
Dell XPS 15 - Nvidia

journalctl: http://ix.io/4kne
dmesg: http://ix.io/4kng
Xorg.0.log: http://ix.io/4knh

Thanks for help !

Last edited by Spartanz51 (2023-01-05 02:17:31)

Spartanz51

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Re: Xorg hangs since latest update (6.1.2.arch1-1)

Here is what I see when I boot: https://i.imgur.com/shtwanl.jpeg

(Underscore is frozen)

And same thing without "quiet" argument while editing the grub line at boot:
https://imgur.io/7UTsyH0

Last edited by Spartanz51 (2023-01-05 02:33:34)

cfr

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Registered: 2011-11-27

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Re: Xorg hangs since latest update (6.1.2.arch1-1)

That's not the complete journal, is it?

From dmesg:

[    0.000000] Linux version 6.1.1-arch1-1 (linux@archlinux) (gcc (GCC) 12.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.39.0) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed, 21 Dec 2022 22:27:55 +0000

but you said you're running 6.1.2. Was the updated kernel not installed correctly?

Edit: dmesg is from the live system rather than the installed one?

[    0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/arch/boot/x86_64/vmlinuz-linux archisobasedir=arch archisolabel=ARCH_202301

Edit 2: don't configure Xorg. If doing that has produced any configuration files, remove them. Post any configuration files which remain, together with a complete journal and updated Xorg.

Last edited by cfr (2023-01-05 03:36:25)

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Spartanz51

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Re: Xorg hangs since latest update (6.1.2.arch1-1)

Thanks for reply

Yes that's right, sorry, dmesg was from live USB, but now I just downgraded to 6.0.11-arch1-1, and issue isn't there.
Here is, just in case, the full dmesg from my install with 6.0.11-arch1-1 https://ix.io/4koM

Last edited by Spartanz51 (2023-01-05 12:12:56)

Spartanz51

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Re: Xorg hangs since latest update (6.1.2.arch1-1)

I deleted all xorg conf & downgraded all packages upgraded in my last pacman -Syu (using the pacman.log)
And now I don't have the issue.
Here is the full list of package & version I downgraded to: http://ix.io/4koR

➜  ~ uname -r
6.0.11-arch1-1

I will stay in 6.0.11-arch1-1 for the rest of the week (Have to work...) and will retry latest kernel this weekend, and post dmesg.

Ps: my issue seems to be the same as: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=282379

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: Xorg hangs since latest update (6.1.2.arch1-1)

Partial up or downgrades are unsupported and the journla in #4 doesn't have an nvidia kernel module.
The reason why the update breaks the system is because you forgot to mount your boot partition, install kernel and initramfs update into the wrong location and boot an old kernel against the updated system.

=> mount your /boot partition and pacman -Syu

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Spartanz51

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Re: Xorg hangs since latest update (6.1.2.arch1-1)

The reason why the update breaks the system is because you forgot to mount your boot partition

I didn't updated my system without /boot, and I wasn't in liveUSB during update: I was in my system like always
I opened the liveUSB after that my system broke, to see what's happening

By the way, I already did pacman -Syu with (/boot mounted) and mkinitcpio and it hasn't fixed anything

seth

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Re: Xorg hangs since latest update (6.1.2.arch1-1)

Edit:
The original journal actually later on contains a boot on the 6.1.2 kernel

Jan 05 02:50:29 1mpuls3 kernel: Linux version 6.1.2-arch1-1 (linux@archlinux) (gcc (GCC) 12.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.39.0) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat, 31 Dec 2022 17:40:35 +0000

But there's no trace of the nvidia kernel module, nor nouveau (blacklisted) nor i915 nor amdgpu nor radeon.

pacman -Qs nvidia

Last edited by seth (2023-01-05 17:10:41)

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mlerota

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Re: Xorg hangs since latest update (6.1.2.arch1-1)

I have the same problem with my 2022 dell xps. I can only use 6.1.21-1-lts kernel. After that, I have the same problem. Did anyone knows the workaround?
Thanks

seth

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Re: Xorg hangs since latest update (6.1.2.arch1-1)

Please post your complete system journal for the boot:

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io

and

pacman -Qs nvidia

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