Stuck on black screen after update on Gnome

[koniuszko]

Hello, I update system yesterday and today when I launch laptop I had black screen with blinking underscore. When I go to tty and startx I see some xterm missing fonts error and Fatal IO error 11 - X11.
I’m at work so I restore backup with timeshift because I need it to work. What to do to prevent from that fatal upgrade? What packages to stop?

$ yay -Syu

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I have Dell Laptop with nvidia optimus (GTX1050) and Optimus manager installed.

System:    Host: marian-dell Kernel: 5.9.8-arch1-1 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: GNOME 3.38.1 Distro: Arch Linux 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Inspiron 7577 v: N/A serial: <superuser/root required> 
           Mobo: Dell model: 0WTYKT v: A00 serial: <superuser/root required> UEFI [Legacy]: Dell v: 1.2.0 date: 10/25/2017 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 29.6 Wh condition: 29.6/56.0 Wh (53%) 
CPU:       Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-7300HQ bits: 64 type: MCP L2 cache: 6144 KiB 
           Speed: 3254 MHz min/max: 800/3500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3249 2: 3203 3: 3262 4: 3478 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 630 driver: i915 v: kernel 
           Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] driver: nvidia v: 455.38 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: modesetting,nvidia resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 630 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.2.2 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel CM238 HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.9.8-arch1-1 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8168 
           IF: enp59s0 state: down mac: 8c:ec:4b:1e:34:83 
           Device-2: Intel Wireless 8265 / 8275 driver: iwlwifi 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: e4:70:b8:50:05:f0 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 1.03 TiB used: 861.14 GiB (82.0%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Plextor model: PX-128S3G size: 119.24 GiB 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LX015-1U7172 size: 931.51 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 115.83 GiB used: 33.71 GiB (29.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
           ID-2: /boot size: 1.00 GiB used: 66.7 MiB (6.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 
           ID-3: /home size: 915.89 GiB used: 793.65 GiB (86.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb1 
Swap:      Alert: No Swap data was found. 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 62.0 C mobo: 46.0 C sodimm: 39.0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2259 
Info:      Processes: 278 Uptime: 24m Memory: 15.26 GiB used: 3.47 GiB (22.7%) Shell: Bash inxi: 3.1.09 

Regards.

[ringo]

do you also use like optimus-manager from aur ?

[koniuszko]

Yes I do.

[ringo]

when you update you have to rebuild that because of the python update

Don't forget to recompile optimus-manager AUR after upgrading to python 3.9.0

Thinking more, there’s not an obvious way to repackage as a hook runs as root (so makepkg will refuse to run). However, it’s at least possible to flag packages which need a rebuild (or at the very least highlight files that are in the wrong place now).

[ringo]

it must rebuild against the python 3.9 update so after the update

[koniuszko]

Can You tell me how to do that?
yay -S optimus-manager ? Or something else?
Regards

[ringo]

First update the system then yay -S optimus-manager is like reinstall but python need to be reprocessed

[BONK]

So a few things. Some are just observations:

1. You are not using EndeavourOS.
2. It appears you have waited quite some time to update. The latest kernel prior to this update was Kernel: 5.9.10-arch1-1 you are on Kernel: 5.9.8-arch1-1.
3. You did not include the full output of the update process.

@ringo has posted a sensible solution. You may also want to optionally switch to optimus-manager-git as optimus-manager is currently flagged out of date.

[ringo]

He used a timeshift snapshot @BONK

[koniuszko]

Why You think I’m not on Endevour? I will try optimus-manager-git.

[BONK]

Agreed just pointing out the fact it hasn’t been updated and/or backed up in a while. If the system was updated / backed up prior to this last update that broke the system the kernel version would be 5.9.10-arch1-1. just being picky really

[ringo]

I dont know optimus manager but it works on the most python applications from aur. A rebuild atleasr git mayby better i dont know but most differebn is the pyhton update in this update

[BONK]

Just an observation from the output from inxi:
Mine:

[elloquin@elloquin-elloquin i3]$ inxi -Fxxxza --no-host
System:
  Kernel: 5.9.10-arch1-1 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux 
  root=UUID=297409b8-4be1-480e-8b40-ea9101fe25b3 rw quiet 
  resume=UUID=c84a3459-cace-4428-8d4c-25559e82e6ac loglevel=3 nowatchdog 
  Desktop: i3 4.16.1-186-gf3fffbae info: i3bar dm: LightDM 1.30.0 
  Distro: EndeavourOS 

Yours:

System:    Host: marian-dell Kernel: 5.9.8-arch1-1 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: GNOME 3.38.1 Distro: Arch Linux 

Anyway you can also read here as to what triggered this issue. https://github.com/Askannz/optimus-manager/issues/174

[koniuszko]

Some time ago when I check xnxi I have `Distro: EndevourOS. Maybe thet is because I install Xanmod Kernel few days ago to try and after it fails to work with nvidia I uninstall it. I restore timeshift backup from 2020-11-15 so that is reason I have old kernel.

[ringo]

Mayby no eos-hooks anymore that changes the lsb release

[ringo]

Early endeavouros didnt had eos hooks

[koniuszko]

do I have to install eos hooks?

Edit. OK it works now. I need to install optimus-manager-git before upgrade. System start well and it working.
Thanks everyone for help.
Regards.

[ringo]

It is python normally is first update the system python etc… theb optimus manager thenn is compiles the python a bit

[xircon]

Also cleanbuild all:

==> Packages to cleanBuild?
==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4)
==>

Answer A it is the safest way to do it.