Looking at past threads, this (inxi -Fxxxc0z) was requested: https://pastebin.com/j02zLAkz
My system was fully up to date, and I had restarted just before doing only these two commands:
sudo groupadd plugdev
sudo usermod -aG plugdev $USER
After these commands, my system now boots to a blinking cursor.
The purpose of these commands was in-order to allow my system to update the key layout on my keyboard. This was my first time doing this in Linux. I had created a file like this:
sudo touch /etc/udev/rules.d/50-zsa.rules
And put the following lines in the file:
# Rules for Oryx web flashing and live training
KERNEL=="hidraw*", ATTRS{idVendor}=="16c0", MODE="0664", GROUP="plugdev"
KERNEL=="hidraw*", ATTRS{idVendor}=="3297", MODE="0664", GROUP="plugdev"
It’s probably worth mentioning that this hanging up (unrelated to keyboard, I think) has happened before, but a restart or two and things would boot normally. This probably happened on a off for a week, and then it stopped happening and I had never diagnosed the problem.
I would love some help on getting this sorted. Preferably I’d like to be able to update my keyboard layout, but if I can’t then some instruction in undoing what I’ve done would also be great.
One more piece of information, I am able to boot up with the fallback intramfs option, which I am using now to make this post.
Thanks so much for any and all help! I love this place!
EDIT: I’ve done some experimenting. I’ve commented out the lines the ‘/etc/udev/rules.d/50-zsa.rules’ file. I was able to successfully boot normally after that. I uncommented the lines and then was unable to boot normally. After trying a handful of times with both the lines commented and uncommented, it seems that both normally booting and fallback intramfs booting can both hang and there doesn’t seem to be a correlation with either mode and whether or not those lines are commented out. It may be possible that the keyboard has nothing to do with this and it’s the initial problem I mentioned that went away for a bit…I guess it’s back now?
EDIT 2: Did some more experimenting. It almost never boots normally, regardless of if those lines are commented. When I attempt to boot inframfs fallback, it rarely works the first attempt, but usually works the second attempt. No ideas.
EDIT 3: Changed loglevel in grub to get more information. Every time boot fails, the last message presented is:
amdgpu: SRAT table not found
More investigation to be done.
EDIT 4: https://pastebin.com/UQkygtLR from:
journalctl -b | grep amd
after a successful boot. Not sure if it is useful.