[Solved] Bootup hangs

Several months ago I installed a 32-bit version of Arch on my MacBookPro (5.1, late 2008) in dual boot with Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion).
After experiencing some troubles, I decided of moving to a (fresh) installation of the 64-bit version.
I was able of booting the Linux kernel directly from rEFInd, and everything seems to work fine until it gets to:
Reached target Local File Sytems (Pre)
where it hangs, as shown by this picture.
The solution proposed elsewhere in the forum (eg, here, that is where the pic came from!) is to set the "nomodeset" kernel parameter.
This solution, however, did not work for me
Does anyone have any other suggestion?
Thank in advance for any help I can get
Alessia
***EDIT***
After some reboots I found two further problems, and to fix them allowed me to step further.
Specifically (perhaps it will be useful to someone!), the first problem was:
A start job is running for dev-disk-by/<some.letters.and.numebers>.device
where <some.letters.and.numebers>.device is '/home' (/dev/sda7). I fixed this by changing its entry in /etc/fstab as:
# /dev/sda7 LABEL=home
UUID=1283ab07-03cc-4fee-b5e3-913533ac2ec9 /home ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered,noauto,x-systemd.automount 0 2
The second problem was:
ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode16_mimo.fw" not found
ERROR: You must go to http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the correct firmware for this driver version. Please carefully read all instructions on this website.
That I fixed by installing the b43-firmware from AUR.
Now bootup hangs at "Reached target bluetooth": after this nothing happens (I waited for about 5 minutes)
Does anyone have any idea?
Thank again for any help
Some background:
/etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# /dev/sda5
UUID=8348e061-f4c5-4185-83ba-3b4e7f0a053d / ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 1
# /dev/sda4
UUID=77a90775-c12e-41c0-8aaf-b9c4959d1e40 /boot ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 2
# /dev/sda6
UUID=6f65b8a6-68bb-41bd-b1c5-c600089fe681 /var ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 2
# /dev/sda7 LABEL=home
UUID=1283ab07-03cc-4fee-b5e3-913533ac2ec9 /home ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 2
lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 232.9G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 200M 0 part
├─sda2 8:2 0 95.3G 0 part
├─sda3 8:3 0 619.9M 0 part
├─sda4 8:4 0 95M 0 part /boot
├─sda5 8:5 0 19.1G 0 part /
├─sda6 8:6 0 11.5G 0 part /var
└─sda7 8:7 0 103.5G 0 part /home
refind_linux.config
"Boot with standard options" "ro root=UUID=8348e061-f4c5-4185-83ba-3b4e7f0a053d
PARTUUID=8dce1cec-49ad-4bf1-9df2-4530816bd69b nomodeset "
"Boot to single-user mode" "ro root=UUID=8348e061-f4c5-4185-83ba-3b4e7f0a053d
PARTUUID=8dce1cec-49ad-4bf1-9df2-4530816bd69b nomodeset single"
"Boot with minimal options" "ro root=UUID=8348e061-f4c5-4185-83ba-3b4e7f0a053d
PARTUUID=8dce1cec-49ad-4bf1-9df2-4530816bd69b nomodeset"
Last edited by alesssia (2013-07-28 16:32:55)

When it says the thing about bluetooth, are you sure that it is not just printing messages after giving you a login prompt? Systemd is a bit too fast for itself. So sometimes people get confused because the system is able to give you a login prompt before all the bootup stuff has completed. So unless you have "quiet" in your kernel command line, it will continue to print the messages like you have told it to. But unfortunately, it will do this on top of (or rather after) the login prompt is reached.
When you think it has frozen after reaching the bluetooth.target, try hitting <enter> and see if the login prompt shows up for you.

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[Solved] Bootup Freezes

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https://i.imgur.com/lbWwvPL.jpg
-- mod edit: read the Forum Etiquette and only post thumbnails http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/For … s_and_Code [jwr] --
--edit My bad, thanks for just editing.
Last edited by orthanc (2013-06-19 02:41:27)

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https://i.imgur.com/2QYSOUh.jpg
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[SOLVED]Boot hang after recent updating issues

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Last edited by life_enjoyer (2013-06-10 20:24:14)

Thanks jasonwryan So my exact boot time was 1 minute and 34.151 seconds (which is not unbearable but like i said it used to be in a matter of seconds)... The kernel took 2.790 seconds and userspace took 1 minute and 31.361 Output of systemd-analyze blame :
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Last edited by hydrosIII (2014-04-10 05:45:14)

I solved the problem, it turned out to be my fault. Before i grew the partition i had another partition mounted in /var/cache/pacman to hold the pacman packages. I erased it to grow my root partition over it but i forgot to erase the entry in the fstab file, so the system was trying to mount the partition but it didnt exist anymore. The result was a broken mount, that was making pacman hang, since it searched for the files in /var/cache/pacman.
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Last edited by jmagnare (2013-08-30 21:05:05)

Thanks for the warm welcome! I'm having a blast using arch so far.
So I restored from the dd that I had done, and things are working fine now. I'm not sure what I should do with this thread: should I mark it solved? I didn't actually discover the cause of the problem, so that doesn't seem right.
To answer your questions:
1. I may have had one of the partitions on sda mounted. Is this likely to have caused what I saw?
2. pv, which I just discovered, allows you to see the progress of data through a pipeline. It's pretty neat. The p, b, e, r, and t flags should turn on the progress bar, byte counter, ETA timer, rate counter, and timer, respectively. After looking at the man page, it appears that this is actually the default behavior. So I could have just used pv with no options.
Last edited by jmagnare (2013-08-29 17:03:00)

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My system is hanged after the grub window. I choose Archlinux, like always, apparently starts to boot and the next screen is frozen. It says:
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systemd-fsck[221]: /dev/sda4: recovering transactions file
systemd-fsck[221]: /dev/sda4: clean ...
And that's it. It frozes in this point. I didn't make any update since 3 days ago. Yesterday the computer runs well.
I tried to enter into Fallback mode, but I get to the same point.
Any suggestions?
Solved partially: I connected a second screen this morning. When I disconnect it, the system starts. Now I have to solve how to add a second screen because when I add it once the system is running, it hangs.
Last edited by doblerone (2014-03-01 08:32:18)

Have you looked at any logs whatsoever?
Edit ::
doblerone wrote:Solved partially: I connected a second screen this morning. When I disconnect it, the system starts. Now I have to solve how to add a second screen because when I add it once the system is running, it hangs.
Thats more like you found a work around and is far from being solved
Last edited by Kartious (2014-03-01 13:46:46)

[SOLVED]System Hang in Arch Linux

I have tried distributions like ubuntu and fedora in hope for finding a stable system . So I move on to Arch Linux
But this problem also exist on Arch. While using my Arch Linux (including ubuntu and fedora) my system hangs with a black screen with something written on the whole screen which cannot be pasted here as my system hangs and I have to push power button to restart.
So I check my errors.log file and found these errors
Jul 8 22:59:24 localhost kernel: [ 1.680013] ata3: softreset failed (device not ready)
Jul 8 22:59:24 localhost kernel: [ 7.298612] SP5100 TCO timer: mmio address 0xfec000f0 already in use
Jul 8 22:59:31 localhost kdm_greet[792]: Cannot load /usr/share/apps/kdm/faces/.default.face: No such file or directory
I have a HCL K21 pdc notebook
Note: In Ubuntu my notebook start with ata1: softreset failed error at boot time
Most often this error occur while watching videos or listening music with VLC
Last edited by Manuj19 (2011-07-09 10:13:24)

ewaller wrote:It might be better to just post the output of lspci -nn It will tell us a great deal more about the hardware related to the PCI bus, including specific chip set identifiers.
Thanks for suggestion
Here is output of lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: ATI Technologies Inc Device [1002:5a31] (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge [1002:5a3f]
00:04.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge [1002:5a36]
00:05.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge [1002:5a37]
00:06.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge [1002:5a38]
00:07.0 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge [1002:5a39]
00:12.0 SATA controller [0106]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA [1002:4380]
00:13.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0) [1002:4387]
00:13.1 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1) [1002:4388]
00:13.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2) [1002:4389]
00:13.3 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3) [1002:438a]
00:13.4 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4) [1002:438b]
00:13.5 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI) [1002:4386]
00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller [1002:4385] (rev 13)
00:14.1 IDE interface [0101]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE [1002:438c]
00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) [1002:4383]
00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge [1002:438d]
00:14.4 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge [1002:4384]
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M] [1002:5a62]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter [168c:001c] (rev 01)
08:01.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II [1180:0476] (rev b3)
08:01.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller [1180:0552] (rev 08)
08:01.2 SD Host controller [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter [1180:0822] (rev 17)
08:01.3 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter [1180:0592] (rev 08)
08:07.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ [10ec:8139] (rev 10)
Last edited by Manuj19 (2011-07-09 07:20:08)

[SOLVED] boot hangs after system update

Hi, I upgraded to latest kernel26 and latest udev packages, but unfortunately my system hangs somewhere early at boot, the last lines I see are:
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
done.
Waiting 10 seconds for device /dev/disk/by-uuid/7133...
EXT4-fs (sda3): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
mount: proc already mounted
and after that nothing. No error or anything. I have no idea what's wrong. I tried downgrading my kernel to 2.6.33 and also tried downgrading udev to 251, but with no luck. However with an archlinux-livecd I am able to mount all my drives and chroot to the system.
Does anyone have an idea, what might be wrong?
greetings,
Niclas
EDIT: I just reinstalled archlinux, no problems so far
Last edited by Niclas (2010-06-28 16:33:06)

unfortunately not, I tried removing alsa-utils and also tried setting i915.modeset=0, but error remains. Anyway thanks for your help

[SOLVED] kdm hangs for ~20 seconds after entering pw

Hi there,
since i made some updates recently kdm hangs for 20 or more seconds after entering the password.
I already updated font caches with `fc-cache -fv` but it didn't help.
Where can I start looking?
/var/log/kdm.log looks like this, but I honestly don't know what to make of it:
Initializing built-in extension Generic Event Extension
Initializing built-in extension SHAPE
Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
Initializing built-in extension XTEST
Initializing built-in extension BIG-REQUESTS
Initializing built-in extension SYNC
Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
Initializing built-in extension XC-MISC
Initializing built-in extension SECURITY
Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
Initializing built-in extension XFIXES
Initializing built-in extension RENDER
Initializing built-in extension RANDR
Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE
Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE
Initializing built-in extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
Initializing built-in extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
Initializing built-in extension RECORD
Initializing built-in extension DPMS
Initializing built-in extension Present
Initializing built-in extension DRI3
Initializing built-in extension X-Resource
Initializing built-in extension XVideo
Initializing built-in extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
Initializing built-in extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
Initializing built-in extension XFree86-DGA
Initializing built-in extension XFree86-DRI
Initializing built-in extension DRI2
Loading extension GLX
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning: Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols
> Ignoring extra symbols
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
klauncher(303) kdemain: No DBUS session-bus found. Check if you have started the DBUS server.
kdeinit4: Communication error with launcher. Exiting!
kdmgreet(297)/kdecore (K*TimeZone*): KSystemTimeZones: ktimezoned initialize() D-Bus call failed: "Not connected to D-Bus server"
kdmgreet(297)/kdecore (K*TimeZone*): No time zone information obtained from ktimezoned
(II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch
setversion 1.4 failed: Permission denied
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning: Multiple definitions of the FOUR_LEVEL_KEYPAD key type
> Earlier definition ignored
> Warning: Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols
> Ignoring extra symbols
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
Thanks for your help!
vincent
Last edited by vincent7 (2014-05-16 21:57:27)

sorry for bringing this up again...
In the meantime I switched from KDE to MATE Desktop, using LightDM and then sddm as Display Managers. The Problem is still the same: everything is starting and booting fine, it's maybe 15 seconds from pressing the ON switch on my laptop until the Login-Dialog of sddm appears. When I enter my password and hit "Enter" the display manager just waits like 20-30 seconds until somethings happens, and MATE is loaded.
This only happens on my first login, right after boot. When I logout and login again, it just takes some seconds until the desktop is loaded.
I looked into "journalctl", but it does not show anything suspicious. It's just a 20-30 second black hole between entries.
I get the exact same behaviour when I disable the display manager and boot into console login.
Can someone please help me with that?

[SOLVED] Pacman hangs at sync

Any idea why? I got my rt73 wireless working, and was able to go on the internet with links, but synchronizing with pacman is stuck at 'Synchronizing Package Databases'.
Is it because pacman is too old and I need to upgrade it first or what?
Last edited by Firepower (2009-12-17 04:36:40)

Ok. Just solved it. Had to upgrade pacman. thanks.

[SOLVED] Processes hang on __blkdev_get

Edit: A problem with the DVD reader, probably defective.
I've edited the post now that I've figured out it's not a problem with the applications themselves. Some programs, ie. XBMC become interruptible when launched, this happens consistently a little while after boot (everything's fine before then).
Thought it was because one of my disks has a corrupt partition table (btw, can that be rebuilt without losing data?), but physically detaching that drive didn't solve the problem. When looking at the processes, they all show up in Gnome's System Monitor with "Waiting Channel: __blkdev_get" written there, and can't be killed. I tried twice attaching gdb to a process, but it just keeps waiting.
Trying to google for __blkdev_get didn't turn up any results I could understand much from. This started happening after I replaced a defective motherboard, but the new one seems to be working perfectly fine except for these problems I can't seem to figure out.
Affected programs: XBMC, gxine, VirtualBox, TestDisk
Any help would be much appreciated!!
Old post:
I have really no idea what's going on, but basically I've had problems with both XBMC and VirtualBox doing absolutely nothing after installing a new motherboard (the previous one was defective, causing all kinds of trouble). Now I have a computer that's running stable, but XBMC just creates unkillable processes without opening, and VirtualBox displays a blank interface. The programs work most of the time right after a reboot, but if I try to launch them twice, they won't run on the second attempt. XBMC has also frozen itself after a short while every time I've got it running.
No idea what to conclude from this without any idea on where to start debugging. dbus is often unable to restart, no idea if it's related. Sorry for the vague description, but I'm failing to properly understand this myself. Any help would be much appreciated.
Last edited by eirik (2010-04-25 12:39:52)

the only thing I can think is that both of those applications have heavy video usage. I might double check to see that your video driver is setup properly. The blank interface you are describing with virtualbox really sounds like video driver mismatch with kernel or incompatible version.

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