Hello! First time post here. Please let me know if my formatting may be improved.
I’ve been using EndeavourOS for a while now, several months at least. This laptop I am using is a Lenovo Legion with a dual boot system of EOS and Windows 11.
This morning I booted up and ran the updater. It had maybe 10 updates or so. I noticed a lot of things for haskell, and I think I saw something related to the Linux kernel.
Update completed normally and I was told to reboot because of system updates. Upon doing so, I am unable to boot back into the system.
When grub appears, I indicate to boot into EOS. At that point it displays the startup log, though this time there is substantial text. It says something about modules not loading, much more text scrolls by rather quickly, and then it goes into a long and (apparently) very slow process.
Right now the top line says [ 22.675181] kauditd_printk_skb: 56 callbacks suppressed
.
I have seen many lines that suggest some sort of audit, eg.
[ 903.3326821] audit: type=1131 audit(1653829907.786:103): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=systemd-backlight@backlight:acpi_video0 comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
There’s another currently visible line with the msg='unit=systemd-tmpfiles-clean...
, or msg='unity=user-runtime-dir@120
, or msg='unit=systemd-hosnamed
.
These lines appear, some in a short cluster. Others appear one line at a time every 5-20 minutes. I haven’t been measuring the time. Many of these lines end in res=success
, which seems promising… Though this process is exceedingly long. This computer normally boots in seconds and this “audit” has taken at least a half hour. I tried various approaches. The power key stops the process and turns off the computer, even if only pressed briefly. I tried booting into the other Linux option (fallback intramfs or something) and it behaves the same. I am leaving it running in hopes that it would complete, though it has been stuck on the last line for a long while now.
I would certainly appreciate some clarification on what’s going on, and/or any suggestions as to what I should do about this. I’m happy to provide any more information, though I am unable to get into my system to run commands. I could boot into Windows or perhaps a live USB, though I’ll leave this running for now until something happens or I give up.
Thank you for your time!