That’s good to know, hopefully it’s fixed soon.
I used “akm” and installed and booted into the LTS kernel, and it hung on a message “Failed: TLP startup / shutdown”
I had set TLP_ENABLE=0 in /etc/tlp.conf to solve a sleeping HDD issue so I renabled that, and heck, it still hung at the same point in the boot, just didn’t show that message! I took a photo and manually typed out at what point the boot hung;
Starting systemd-udevd version 252.4-2-arch
/dev/nvme0n1p5: recovering Journal
/dev/nvme0n1p5: clean, 676433/3932160 files, 14569601/15728640 blocks
What’s worse, after I booted back into the current kernel, is the laggy HDD issue came right back! So I’ve set TLP_ENABLE=1 and rebooted again.
So the LTS kernel isn’t an option for me it seems.