System not booting after installing Optimus Manager

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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So as the title says, I tried to install Optimus Manager from the AUR for my laptop, since I wanted to handle my drivers and battery life. After installing it it told me to reboot the system and I did so, but the following error came up. If there’s a way to solve it and recover my stuff I’d be greatly, greatly appreciated

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When did you last update your system? Issues with notifying about needed reboots was another discussion this week here, but I know too little about that program

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You could also chroot into your system using a live USB and see if uninstalling helps. From their github readme:

Uninstallation

To uninstall the program, simply remove the optimus-manager package. The auto-generated Xorg >config file will be automatically cleaned up.

You can also force cleanup by running optimus-manager --cleanup.

You can also disable optimus-manager by disabling the systemd service optimus-manager.service >(needs a reboot to be applied)

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Thanks! Unfortunately I don’t have my USB with me and I’ll be at home in like ten hours lmao But will definitely try this out. Do you happen to have a detailed tutorial other than the one you linked, btw? Wanna do this as carefully as I possibly can, I really need to save my files and configs for uni :frowning:

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And about this, only like two days ago actually: the error (from what I can piece together) mainly came after downloading the Optimus Manager in the AUR, so the chroot may be the safest (if not only) solution for me rn

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For the safety of your files: Use two sticks, one for the live-USB, one for your files. Boot up the laptop using the live-USB, mount the harddrive and copy your important files to the second USB. Safe them.

No sorry, I do not have a better tutorial at hand. Maybe you can find a video on YT :slight_smile:

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Installing Optimus might have screwed up your systems and uninstalling it might help. But it’s worth a try I think. Without having logs I can’t really say much.

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Arrived super late from uni so I couldn’t get to do this last night :frowning: Just a question though, if I installed it with yay, would should be the order in which I execute the removal?

  1. yay -R optimus-manager
  2. optimus-manager --cleanup
  3. optimus-manager.service

Something tells me it should be 3-2-1, but I’m not 100% sure :frowning:

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Mate, this worked absolutely perfectly, thank you so so much man! What a beautiful thing chroot is ahaha

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oh well, I was just about to answer you :smiley: Lucky it worked!!

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