2022-04-04 01:36:09 +00:00
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title: Fixing my Desktop (again)
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date: 2016-02-09
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layout: Post
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hero: https://source.unsplash.com/Kw_zQBAChws/1270x952
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hero credit: https://unsplash.com/photos/Kw_zQBAChws
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hero credit text: Ashim D'Silva
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header: header-black-gradient
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tags:
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- linux
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I successfully broke my computer again. Oops. I can watch systemd boot my system
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and then once my display manager (in my case, sddm) takes over, kaput.
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Once that's happened, I can't do anything else. I can't switch to a text console
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because my displays switch themselves off, nor can I start a graphical session
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because, again, my displays switch themselves off.
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Rebooting yields this:
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2022-04-05 02:18:57 +00:00
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2022-04-04 01:36:09 +00:00
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(and clicking the reboot button does nothing)
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I managed to fix this by booting into EFI shell, then specifying runlevel 3 by booting
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the kernel's [EFISTUB](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EFISTUB). My EFI shell didn't
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like the leading slash for some reason. Whatever.
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Once that was done, a `pacman -Syu` (which updated the `nvidia` package, among some other things)
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and a `mkinitcpio -P linux` got me back up and running.
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Simples!
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