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Hello,
I did my regular update today that went fine, but after reboot I got a black screen. The bootup starts as regular and goes on for a while but somewhere in the middle it stops and that's all, black screen.
I updated the kernel, xorg, ati and input devices, qt as far as I remember.
Now, I don't know what to do.
Would appreciate if any knowledgeable person could give me ideas what to do next.
Thanks,
jmak
Last edited by jmak (2010-09-29 22:16:35)
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Does Ctrl-Alt-F2 work?
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Check if you're running xorg-server 1.9.
To see what packages were updated run 'tail /var/log/pacman.log'
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Does Ctrl-Alt-F2 work?
Thanks for the reply,
It doesn't work.
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So you can't get to console?
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If you're starting X at boot, switch to starting the console first and check the logs /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
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Check if you're running xorg-server 1.9.
To see what packages were updated run 'tail /var/log/pacman.log'
I cannot issue the command because the command line is not working. But I can look at it from other partitions. Please let me know in what folder I can find the xorg – server.
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So you can't get to console?
No.
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karol wrote:Check if you're running xorg-server 1.9.
To see what packages were updated run 'tail /var/log/pacman.log'I cannot issue the command because the command line is not working. But I can look at it from other partitions. Please let me know in what folder I can find the xorg – server.
xorg-server is a package, running 'pacman -Q xorg-server' will show the version.
You need to edit /etc/inittab to boot to console instead of starting X. Find those lines and make them look like this:
## Only one of the following two lines can be uncommented!
# Boot to console
id:3:initdefault:
# Boot to X11
#id:5:initdefault:You can copy /var/log/pacman.log and post the part about your last update to pastebin.
Last edited by karol (2010-09-29 20:56:47)
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I did my regular update today that went fine, but after reboot I got a black screen. The bootup starts as regular and goes on for a while but somewhere in the middle it stops and that's all, black screen.
Did you try turning off KMS already?
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The inittab already looked the same as yours. I didn't have to change anything.
This is the pacman.log update:
[2010-09-29 15:28] ==> SUCCESS
[2010-09-29 15:28] upgraded kernel26 (2.6.35.6-1 -> 2.6.35.7-1)
[2010-09-29 15:28] installed glproto (1.4.12-1)
[2010-09-29 15:28] upgraded mesa (7.8.2-1 -> 7.8.2-3)
[2010-09-29 15:28] upgraded nss (3.12.7-1 -> 3.12.8-1)
[2010-09-29 15:28] upgraded qt (4.6.3-1 -> 4.7.0-2)
[2010-09-29 15:28] upgraded xf86-input-evdev (2.4.0-2 -> 2.5.0-1)
[2010-09-29 15:28] upgraded xf86-input-keyboard (1.4.0-2 -> 1.4.0-3)
[2010-09-29 15:28] upgraded xf86-input-mouse (1.5.0-2 -> 1.6.0-1)
[2010-09-29 15:28] upgraded xf86-video-ati (6.13.1-1 -> 6.13.2-1)
[2010-09-29 15:28] upgraded xf86-video-vesa (2.3.0-2 -> 2.3.0-3)
[2010-09-29 15:28] upgraded xkeyboard-config (1.8-1 -> 1.9-1)
[2010-09-29 15:28] installed xorg-server-common (1.9.0-1)
[2010-09-29 15:28] upgraded xorg-server (1.8.1.902-1 -> 1.9.0-1)
[2010-09-29 15:28] upgraded xterm (261-1 -> 262-1)
[2010-09-29 15:29] upgraded xulrunner (1.9.2.10-1 -> 1.9.2.10-2)
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I did my regular update today that went fine, but after reboot I got a black screen. The bootup starts as regular and goes on for a while but somewhere in the middle it stops and that's all, black screen.
Did you try turning off KMS already?
I didn't do anything like that.
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You can downgrade all xorg-related apps to see if it helps.
I'm sorry, but I know nothing about ATI-related issues, but: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 69#p832469
Last edited by karol (2010-09-29 21:26:44)
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Did you try turning off KMS already?
I didn't do anything like that.
Sorry, I meant you could try turning of Kernel Mode Setting, as the symptoms described sound a lot like issues with KMS (altough I don't know why it would happen with this particular update, but could be introduced by kernel/ati update)
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI … ooting_KMS
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Did you try turning off KMS already?
I didn't do anything like that.
Sorry, I meant you could try turning of Kernel Mode Setting, as the symptoms described sound a lot like issues with KMS (altough I don't know why it would happen with this particular update, but could be introduced by kernel/ati update)
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI … ooting_KMS
Thanks a lot for the advise, turning off the KMS solved the problem.
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