Today's update broke my system(mesa update)

General system Newbie
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I updated today and got a blinking “_”. The only two things that updated were thunar and mesa. What am i to do in this situation?

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Same with myself just now, downgraded mesa and all is good for now.

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how exactly did you do that? what steps did you take?

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Just updatet, reboot, no issue.
Downgrade mesa as suggested by @sammiev

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I used downgrade from the aur.
On boot drop down to shell using Ctrl+Alt+F3.
Sign-in and use

sudo downgrade mesa

If you do not have downgrade installed then

yay -S downgrade
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I can’t drop down to shell using ctrl alt f3. Is there another way to downgrade?

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Try Ctrl+Alt+F4 all at the same time. You are doing this at the blinking “_”

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ok i got it to go to shell and logged in. its asking what package to downgrade to? what one did you select? 23.3.1? did you select remote or /var/cache/pacman/pkg?

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Just upgraded mesa on my Arch system and no problems. Wonder what’s going on? I have an older AMD/ATI video card. Same results on my machine with an older Nvidia card using open source drivers. Both linux and linux-lts work just fine booting up.

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I chose the /var/cache/pacman/pkg and chose not to ignore the pkg. I rebooted and that worked.

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Both my intel graphic went to black screen, both working now after rolling back mesa.

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I have intel also

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thanks btw for the help

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affected hardware is important to know.
AMD Radeon 6750XT here and no issues - using mesa 23.3.2 since Wednesday already

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[cc@computer ~]$ inxi -G
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel GeminiLake [UHD Graphics 600] driver: i915 v: kernel
  Device-2: IMC Networks USB2.0 VGA UVC WebCam driver: uvcvideo type: USB
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.10 driver: X: loaded: intel
    unloaded: modesetting dri: i965 gpu: i915 resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
  API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: iris,swrast platforms: x11,surfaceless,device
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 23.3.1-arch1.1
    renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 600 (GLK 2)
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No issue on my end.

$ inxi -G 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel WhiskeyLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics 620] driver: i915 v: kernel
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.10 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.3
    compositor: gnome-shell v: 45.2 driver: X: loaded: modesetting dri: iris
    gpu: i915 resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  API: EGL Message: EGL data requires eglinfo. Check --recommends.
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Just updated my system that has a nvidia gpu, no issues.

But, not the same case with my virtual machines. Update broke all my VMs.

Thankfully i had recent snapshots of all the vms. Restored it and now everything is fine.

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I have an Arc A750 & upgraded Mesa without problems…I know they have been putting a lot of code to support the newer Intel Graphics stack…

Maybe that is what is going on… I looked back through the Intel commits on Phoronix & found this: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-ANV-Sparse-Lands-Mesa

Arch-Commit: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/mesa/-/commit/c96e758852fe6d13c21db57c602bbd4a9c0364a6

Lastly, the Release notes: https://docs.mesa3d.org/relnotes/23.3.2.html

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Can you confirm what Intel Hardware you are running?

Mine Is:

[dean@ASUS-Z790 Desktop]$ inxi -G
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel DG2 [Arc A750] driver: i915 v: kernel
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.10 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.3
    compositor: gnome-shell v: 45.2 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
    unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 resolution: 3440x1440~144Hz
  API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: iris,swrast
    platforms: wayland,x11,surfaceless,device
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 23.3.2-arch1.1
    renderer: Mesa Intel Arc A750 Graphics (DG2)
  API: Vulkan v: 1.3.274 drivers: intel surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland
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I see some changes to the Iris driver…Looks like a bug report is in order.