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mrconfused

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Registered: 2023-06-17

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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:

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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)

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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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?

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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Morgan_GPL_Worshipper

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Re: X server broken after system upgrade [Temporarily Solved]

have the exact same problem as of writing this. (using an old laptop bcuz x server just displays some text then screen becomes black). may be a problem with the package repos, maybe try downloading it from aur... (never a good idea but its better then black screen)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: X server broken after system upgrade [Temporarily Solved]

You did notice that this thread is 2 months old and mesa has had several updates since then that didn't have this problem ?

Please start a new thread. Include xorg log and lspci- k output.

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Closing this thread.

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2025-07-31 08:21:09)

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