WiFi freezes system after update

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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Hey guys I’m having a bit of an issue with my recent update, after installing my update using the built in utility the system prompted me to restart so I did and it was hanging trying to stop 3 services (all are related to WiFi), after it finally rebooted wifi does not connect and says authorization supplicant failed and when I try to reconnect it hangs my entire system and I have to force reboot and even after doing that the issue still persists. What can I do? Do I have to reinstall my system?

Edit the first image in this post describes the reboot issue in case anyone needs a visual reference: Shutdown stalls after system update - #6 by sammiev

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Have you tried this :

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Hi, @Vex and welcome to the forums. I have the same issue and the solution is really easy:

  • Boot using the fallback initramfs option
  • Open a terminal and downgrade kernel with the next command
sudo downgrade linux linux-headers

Select a previous version by typing its corresponding number, do not choose 6.6.5, confirm the downgrade and everything will be fine again.

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How do I boot into that?

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At boot, you just need tho select the fallback option.

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This is what I see (grub)

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I think this is for systemd boot

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Sounds simple enough, on shutdown I’m getting that long wait for services to shutdown again, is it safe to hard shutdown in this state?

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Yes, same happened to me.

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Yes. Most likely they won’t go on its own

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Well everything went well except for this…

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This seemed disabled so I enabled it but the issue still persists with it being disabled

(Note this is after downgrading successfully, the solution works to get network manager working)

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I’m having this issue as well its very odd. When its happening anytime i run a sudo command it just hangs and cant even ^C out. Also seeing wpa_supplicant and like network manager fail to stop when issuing reboot.

I dont know if its related but it seems to break when I launch discord

downgraded to 6.6.4 so far its working

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I am having the same problem. I can’t even run sudo it just hangs like you mentioned. How do I downgrade when unable to run sudo? I am still a noob, so any help is appreciated.

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supposedly 6.6.6 has resolved the issue so you might have to hard restart your device until youre able to get an internet connection (it should eventually get a connection briefly) and then just run the upgrade sudo pacman -Syu as normal