Linux-lts leads to black screen on rebooting even for linux (solved)

I'd like to mention a problem I faced when trying linux-lts (kernel 3.14). I had the "linux" kernel installed (4.0). If someone has an idea on what happened, please share.
sudo pacman -S linux-lts
, then
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
, reboot, choose the lts-kernel. I can login to the desktop (lxde, lxqt and i3 are all working). Then reboot, pick any of linux or linux-lts kernels. And here the problem starts: black screen.
I tried to debug the booting process by following https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Softwa … Debugging/. I couldn't resolve anything.
By luck I thought "what if it's the login manager (lxdm) that's black?", and so I tried to aim at the middle of the screen with the mouse on the 100% black screen, I entered my password and "boom" I was on the lxqt desktop!
I rebooted, same problem. But by trying to guess where the password box was, I could login to my desktop. To fix the problem at first, I did remove linux-lts, reinstalled linux with pacman, removed lxdm and its systemd service, installed sddm and enabled its service, regenerated the grub.cfg file. Rebooting worked, no black screen.
At that point I thought "well it might just have been lxdm not working well with linux-lts so let's try to install it again, since now I have sddm". Huge mistake... After reinstalling linux-lts, booting in it, rebooting lead again to a black screen on boot up. This time however trying to aim at the box to enter my password was impossible: I was not used to sddm so I didn't know where to click. I tried the "tab" key around 20 times, entering my password each time, without success. So I ended up using the live Arch.iso version on a usb flash drive to remove the linux-lts, sddm (yeah I went for lxdm again), etc. by chrooting. This worked again: no more black screen.
The irony is that I installed that kernel thinking of increasing the stability of Arch on my laptop. It ended up breaking the booting process of both kernels!
And since I want to understand Linux in general, I am posting this in hopes that it could help someone else facing this problem and also in hopes that someone can explain me what could have happened. Because as of now I don't understand how lxdm and sddm could appear black in both kernels when rebooting from the linux-lts kernel.
Thanks for any pointer.
Last edited by linux_dream (2015-05-28 15:57:02)

OK just to confirm that enabling the testing repository solved the problem for me as well.
These were the updated packages (excluding dbus which I manually upgraded before enabling the repo):
Targets (18): device-mapper-2.02.98-3 filesystem-2012.12-1 isl-0.11-1 libpulse-2.99.2-1 libquvi-0.4.1-2 libssh2-1.4.3-1 linux-3.6.9-1
linux-headers-3.6.9-1 lua-5.2.1-2 lua51-5.1.5-3 lvm2-2.02.98-3 mkinitcpio-0.12.0-1 nmap-6.25-2 pulseaudio-2.99.2-1 talloc-2.0.8-1
vlc-2.0.4-5 xorg-server-1.13.0.901-1 xorg-server-common-1.13.0.901-1
It might be any of those but most likely could be either the kernel or xorg-server* (just for future reference).
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