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#1 2025-05-28 04:04:03
- mrconfused
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X server broken after system upgrade [Temporarily Solved]
A day after I upgraded arch with pacman -Syu, I booted up into console as usual, which worked fine, but then tried to start X and got this far:
And here it froze. I had to manually power off. I tried rebooting a few times with the same result.
I tried doing a system upgrade again, but this made no difference.
I downgraded to 2025/5/26 and still no difference.
Finally I downgraded to the date 2025/5/20 and now it works again.
What do I do? Should I report this as a bug somewhere? When should I try to upgrade again?
Would appreciate any help.
Thanks
EDIT:
So the problem is indeed the mesa package, and downgrading this to mesa 1:25.0.5-1 fixes the issue.
I still can't just pacman -Syu though, so hopefully they will fix the bug soon.
Thank you Seth for the help!
Last edited by mrconfused (2025-06-08 05:42:37)
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#2 2025-05-28 06:08:53
- seth
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Re: X server broken after system upgrade [Temporarily Solved]
Likely https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=305727 - in doubt post your xorg log, notably if you do not use nouveau (the bug exposed some intel misconfigs running in software emulation…)
Also avoid shutting down w/ the power button, ctrl+alt+f3 might still get you to TTY3?
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#3 2025-05-30 03:17:37
- mrconfused
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Re: X server broken after system upgrade [Temporarily Solved]
That does look like my problem.
Apologies for stupid/newbie question, but: Is this going to be fixed soon so I can just do pacman -Syu again, or do I need to manually administer/downgrade the responsible packages?
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#4 2025-05-30 06:34:02
- seth
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Re: X server broken after system upgrade [Temporarily Solved]
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … 5530369285
Edit: in case it does and please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.
Last edited by seth (2025-05-30 06:34:28)
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