[SOLVED] system going black screen

lemon4ik · 2025-09-08 11:18:19

My system is macos and I use archlinux as a guest in vmware
I haven't updated the system for a long time
After remove remove old packet xf86-video-vmware and install https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xf86-video-vmware from aur repositiry a have this problem. So now I can't login to system for enter any command.
How can I resolve this problem?

Last edited by lemon4ik (2025-09-10 16:02:46)

twelveeighty · 2025-09-08 14:47:02

What exactly does "can't login to system" mean? Give us the exact error message. Boot Arch with systemd.unit=multi-user.target as a kernel parameter and log in as root. Then fully update the system, keeping in mind all the manual steps that may be required by reading the Arch Home page News.

seth · 2025-09-08 15:00:10

and install https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xf86-video-vmware from aur

Don't ?
The driver won't work, this is why it got dropped into the AUR.

lemon4ik · 2025-09-08 15:13:37

twelveeighty wrote:

Boot Arch with systemd.unit=multi-user.target as a kernel parameter and log in as root.

how to do it?

seth · 2025-09-08 15:14:51

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel_parameters and also the 2nd link below

lemon4ik · 2025-09-08 15:51:10

twelveeighty wrote:

What exactly does "can't login to system" mean?

https://streamable.com/yt6ekf

lemon4ik · 2025-09-09 09:42:33

seth wrote:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel_parameters and also the 2nd link below

I can't use terminal because can't login to system, pls see video

seth · 2025-09-09 09:50:44

You apply those at the bootloader, please see links.

lemon4ik · 2025-09-09 14:01:03

seth wrote:

You apply those at the bootloader, please see links.

Is it so difficult for you to explain it clearly?

twelveeighty · 2025-09-09 14:26:27

lemon4ik wrote:

Is it so difficult for you to explain it clearly?

Put in some effort and actually read the documentation that was linked to you. We're not here to hold your hand. If something isn't clear in the documentation, ask specific questions about it.

lemon4ik · 2025-09-10 07:10:46

twelveeighty wrote:

lemon4ik wrote:
Is it so difficult for you to explain it clearly?
Put in some effort and actually read the documentation that was linked to you. We're not here to hold your hand. If something isn't clear in the documentation, ask specific questions about it.

I can't get access into the boot menu, I use systemd-boot, when I press the e key, nothing happens. The system boots as usual

seth · 2025-09-10 08:00:48

Mount the boot partition and edit the loader config from there (either to add the option or enable the editor)
You're btw. likely still able to switch to another VT (ctrl+alt+f3) anyway?

lemon4ik · 2025-09-10 15:54:24

seth wrote:

Mount the boot partition and edit the loader config from there (either to add the option or enable the editor)
You're btw. likely still able to switch to another VT (ctrl+alt+f3) anyway?

Success, remove https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xf86-video-vmware, but the mouse cursor is not visible, this problem appeared earlier after the update.
Now what video driver I need to use with vmware instead of xf86-video-vmware?

Last edited by lemon4ik (2025-09-10 15:55:17)

seth · 2025-09-10 16:07:20

Now what video driver I need to use with vmware instead of xf86-video-vmware?

None. You'd run the modesetting driver on top of the kms kernel module.

Is only the mouse cursor affected, X11 in general works?
=> Try https://man.archlinux.org/man/modesetting.4#Option

lemon4ik · 2025-09-10 16:15:53

seth wrote:

Is only the mouse cursor affected, X11 in general works?

none, at the moment the "resize virtual machine to fit" doesn't work

Last edited by lemon4ik (2025-09-10 16:16:25)

seth · 2025-09-10 19:10:04

Ftr, was using the SWCursor necessary?

Wrt autofit, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 0#p2256900 (the thread went off the rails in various directions so ultimately remained unresolved but resulted in concerns about a missing/broken vmware tools package

pacman -Qikk open-vm-tools

lemon4ik · 2025-09-11 10:50:04

seth wrote:

Ftr, was using the SWCursor necessary?

if I save file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-vmware.conf
with

Section "Device"
    Identifier "VMware Graphics"
    Driver "vmware"
    Option "SWCursor" "false"
EndSection

it's crash system(the same black screen)

seth wrote:

pacman -Qikk open-vm-tools

the output

Name            : open-vm-tools
Version         : 6:13.0.0-1
Description     : The Open Virtual Machine Tools (open-vm-tools) are the open
                  source implementation of VMware Tools
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools
Licenses        : LGPL-2.1-only
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : fuse3  icu  iproute2  libdnet  libmspack  libsigc++
                  libxcrypt  libcrypt.so=2-64  libxss  lsb-release  procps-ng
                  uriparser  which  xmlsec
Optional Deps   : gtkmm3: DnD/CP plugin [installed]
                  libxtst: DnD/CP, resolution set plugins [installed]
                  netctl: suspend-resume network state
                  networkmanager: suspend-resume network state [installed]
Required By     : None
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 4.70 MiB
Packager        : Christian Hesse <eworm@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : Thu Jun 19 11:53:49 2025
Install Date    : Sun Sep 7 20:54:07 2025
Install Reason  : Explicitly installed
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature

warning: open-vm-tools: /etc/pam.d/vmtoolsd (Permissions mismatch)
backup file: open-vm-tools: /etc/pam.d/vmtoolsd (Modification time mismatch)
backup file: open-vm-tools: /etc/pam.d/vmtoolsd (Size mismatch)
backup file: open-vm-tools: /etc/pam.d/vmtoolsd (SHA256 checksum mismatch)
open-vm-tools: 326 total files, 1 altered file

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seth · 2025-09-11 13:08:07

Not

Driver "vmware"

, but

 Driver "modesetting"

You just removed xf86-video-vmware because that driver will no longer work at all.

What happened to /etc/pam.d/vmtoolsd ?

lemon4ik · 2025-09-11 18:48:17

seth wrote:

Not

Driver "vmware"

, but

 Driver "modesetting"

can login, but the cursor doesn't seems but work as before.

You just removed xf86-video-vmware because that driver will no longer work at all.

yeah

What happened to /etc/pam.d/vmtoolsd ?

  GNU nano 8.6                   /etc/pam.d/vmtoolsd                            
# This is a generic pam config file for open-vm-tools
# See https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/78251 for advice to use
# common authentication mechanisms.
auth       required         pam_shells.so
auth       sufficient       pam_unix.so shadow
auth       required         pam_unix_auth.so shadow
account    required         pam_shells.so
account    sufficient       pam_unix.so
account    required         pam_unix_acct.so

seth · 2025-09-11 19:30:18

We should maybe first focus on the cursor thing, what does your Xorg log look like?
The cursor is "just" invisible but still triggers hover events etc?

lemon4ik · 2025-09-11 20:03:02

seth wrote:

We should maybe first focus on the cursor thing, what does your Xorg log look like?

xorg log

The cursor is "just" invisible but still triggers hover events etc?

yeah

Last edited by lemon4ik (2025-09-11 20:03:42)

seth · 2025-09-11 20:48:01

[    10.488] (**) modeset(0): Option "SWcursor" "false"

No, "true"

lemon4ik · 2025-09-12 20:17:09

seth wrote:

[    10.488] (**) modeset(0): Option "SWcursor" "false"

No, "true"

fine, the cursor now is visible
Thank You! )

Last edited by lemon4ik (2025-09-12 20:19:34)

seth · 2025-09-12 20:32:11

For the autofi feature, see https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/630
Is vmware-user running ?

lemon4ik · 2025-09-12 20:51:09

seth wrote:

Is vmware-user running ?

yeah running

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