[SOLVED] Screen Pixels Scrambling After Package Cleanup and Reboot

spookscaryyy · 2023-08-23 01:54:15

I rebooted after cleaning up a bunch of packages from my laptop. I thought I was careful about which packages got removed but I may have gotten rid of one I needed since my screen now looks like this.

I tried going into arch-chroot from an install disk and reinstalling some of the packages using the log (using pacman -S) but so far no dice.

This issue only shows up when I get into dwm, my LightDM login screen displays without an issue. I know other functions are working without an issue since I can open up a terminal and type and execute commands (even if I cannot see their output).

Last edited by spookscaryyy (2023-08-23 13:42:01)

seth · 2023-08-23 06:28:31

Don't post pictures of text

cat /var/log/pacman.log | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

You can also post a journal of the previous boot this way

sudo journalctl -b -1 | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

spookscaryyy · 2023-08-23 13:21:26

Thanks! Didn't know about that

pacman.log just a note that the cleanup started at [2023-08-07T09:33:39-0400] (when I installed pacgraph) and ended at [2023-08-07T12:24:23-0400] (when the last package was deleted)

journal of last boot

headkase · 2023-08-23 13:26:36

dwm is an AUR package. So it may depend on things that were present when it was initially built and installed - and you've removed packages. Try rebuilding dwm and any dependencies again and reinstall the new packages. If there was some hidden dependency, or an optional component that is no longer present, then rebuilding dwm with what your system is now might help.

seth · 2023-08-23 13:33:27

Get rid of xf86-video-intel

"Warning", the pacman log is a 3MB gist, path to raw file: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/spoo … pacman.log

spookscaryyy · 2023-08-23 13:41:00

seth wrote:

Get rid of xf86-video-intel

Darn, thought I had gotten rid of that package but I guess it was something else. That fixed it! Thanks for the help

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[SOLVED] Screen Pixels Scrambling After Package Cleanup and Reboot

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