Recent LTS kernel strangeness

[jahway603]

I’ve been primarily using the LTS linux kernel on my laptop, as I have an older laptop running EndeavourOS. The LTS kernel boots until it reaches “[ OK ] Reached target Graphical Interface.” and then hangs.

This only started happening with the linux-lts 6.12.12-1 kernel. It did not happen on previous versions. This same laptop also boots up fine with both the linux 6.13.1 kernel and the linux-zen 6.13.1 kernel.

I’m writing this posting because I’m still having this same issue after upgrading the linux-lts kernel to 6.12.13-1. The same laptop still boots up fine with both the linux 6.13.2 & linux-zen 6.13.2 kernels.

Anyone have any ideas? My current workaround is to not use the linux-lts kernel to boot, but I figured I would have experienced this issue with the other kernels before I did with linux-lts on this older laptop.

[ajgringo619]

You can try building the latest v6.6 LTS kernel with the linux-lts66 AUR package. I also use the LTS kernel, but for different reasons (gaming issues, mostly).

[SemLraug]

I’m no expert, but there are problems with nvidea drivers where this happens as well:

Nvidia Drivers issue of when booted, you get stuck on [ok] Reached target Graphical Interface

Hello, so l’m a noobie and l’ve been trying to install Nvidia drivers for my RTX 3060 on Linux kernel version 6.6.63-1-Its. So like the title says, whenever I’d boot into Linux, l’d go through all the boot logs but would always get stuck on Lok Reached target Graphical Interface. I know that is is my problem because I was messing with the Nvidia graphics setting in my previous attempt to try to update the drivers or to see what drivers were installed. I actually installed EndevourOS yesterday a…

Perhaps there is some relevant info in that thread.

[jahway603]

@ajgringo619 thank you for the suggestion. I am building the linux-lts66 AUR package right now to try this out. I do believe I was not having this issue with the linux-lts 6.12.11 kernel, but I’m not sure how to check that so will see how 6.6.x works out.

@SemLraug thank you for this suggestion. I do not have any nvidia or AMD GPU in this laptop, so it’s just Intel GPU.

[jahway603]

Thank you @ajgringo619 for the suggestion to build the linux-lts66 AUR package as this worked for my old laptop and it was able to boot using the 6.6.x kernel. It’s still strange to me why the latest 6.13 linux & linux-zen kernels work but not the 6.12.x linux-lts kernel. Oh the mysteries of the linux kernel

[dbarronoss]

Yep, which makes the ‘try another kernel’ the solution usually
The kernel (imo) is just too big and too ‘changey’ to keep track of what might be causing an issue. This is sad, but true.

[ringo]

maybe you had to rebuild image depene whicj bootloader.‘’ as graphical to has a link to videi drivers maybe a rebuildnis enough