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CinghioPinghio

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Registered: 2009-09-30

Posts: 6

New upgrade broke my laptop (maybe something with display???)

Today I did an upgrade of my Archlinux laptop by

pacman -Syu

and upgrade ended well (no big errors, only an error on latex update about fonts maps, but I get that error every time I update).
After rebooting the system was broken:
grub start well
after grub, when it should switch monitor resolution and put a nice archlinux symbol on it, the monitor turn black an nothing more happens.
I can see the hard-disk led pulsing and after a bit it switch off, so I think that the laptop is completing his initialization and than hang on the display manager (slim) waiting for me.
I tried starting in console mode or with "fallback" image with the same result.

Any suggestion is very appreciated.

Thank you all, sorry for my poor English.

Mauro

loafer

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From: the pub

Registered: 2009-04-14

Posts: 1,772

Re: New upgrade broke my laptop (maybe something with display???)

Boot into single user... add the word "single" to the end of the kernel line in grub.  Have a look at what was updated "/var/log/pacman.log".  No one will know how to help if you do not provide more details.

edit:  if that fails boot from a live cd, chroot and look at /var/log/pacman.log

Last edited by loafer (2010-01-19 21:30:54)

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CinghioPinghio

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Registered: 2009-09-30

Posts: 6

Re: New upgrade broke my laptop (maybe something with display???)

Hello loafer,
thanks for replaying.
I've tried using grub boot parameter "single" without success: I cannot see anything.

While I was sleeping I thought that possibly it can be an issue concerning my video card which is an old integraded intel 855GM (which driver presented some problems last update so I had to add the grub boot parameter "i915.modeset=1").

But I cannot access system so I cannot look at the error logs.

Any idea?

thanks.

JackH79

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From: Australia

Registered: 2009-06-18

Posts: 663

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Re: New upgrade broke my laptop (maybe something with display???)

Look at his edit line: Use a live-CD to access your hard drive so that you can pull the log file to see what went wrong.

CinghioPinghio

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Registered: 2009-09-30

Posts: 6

Re: New upgrade broke my laptop (maybe something with display???)

adding to the kernel line in grub "3 nomodeset" now I can login in the command line console.
Looking at the logs files (Xorg, kernel, pacman, syslog,dmesg...) all I've found:
in /var/log/Xorg.0.log

(EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)

in /var/log/kernel.log

Jan 16 17:24:01 archinghio kernel: ipw2200: Failed to send CARD_DISABLE: Command timeout.

edit: seems that the Xorg.0.log was generated last time everything went fine, so now it is crashing before writing any log

Last edited by CinghioPinghio (2010-01-20 10:51:42)

kgas

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From: Qatar

Registered: 2008-11-08

Posts: 718

Re: New upgrade broke my laptop (maybe something with display???)

For the intel cards now KMS is enabled by default so remove any such settings from the kernal parameter. The error you posted is not a harm. If you still can not boot try to roll back your kernel and see how stable is your system.

CinghioPinghio

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Registered: 2009-09-30

Posts: 6

Re: New upgrade broke my laptop (maybe something with display???)

I've downgraded from kernel 2.6.32.3-1 to kernel 2.6.31.5-1 with all dependencies.

Now the system is up and running, but I still don't know which the problem was.