Hey everyone,

So I did my usual weekly system update with paru -Syu this morning. The update went through normally. nothing major, no core packages, Nvidia, or Plasma updates from what I could tell when I glanced at the packages. I also checked the Arch news beforehand to see if anything required manual intervention and there was nothing.

I went ahead and rebooted and tried logging into a Wayland session from SDDM, and it froze on the desktop immediately. Couldn’t even get into a TTY from there.

This issue is somewhat familiar and has happened to me before. Usually, it’s fixable by rebooting or unplugging and plugging back in an external monitor. So I did a forced reboot (holding power) and tried again same freeze. Tried once more, still the same.

Then I booted into X11, logged in, and initially it seemed fine. I resized the scaling to 125% (it was at 100%), logged out and tried logging back into x11 and it froze again.

I had no idea what broke. I ended up going into TTY from GRUB and restoring a Timeshift snapshot from a day ago. After that, I could log in normally again.

Has anyone else run into this issue?

PS: I wanted to check the journal and debug it, but I had to catch a bus for vacation, so my laptop is at home. Will try to investigate more later.

  • littleomid@feddit.orgEnglish
    21·
    1 month ago

    Paru -Syu ≠ pacman -Syu.

    Give it a couple days time and upgrade again. 99% chances that it is fixed till then.

    • sonofearth@lemmy.worldOP
      8·
      1 month ago

      Give it a couple days time and upgrade again

      Yeah I will try next weekend and maybe wait for the kernel 6.19 update.

      Paru -Syu ≠ pacman -Syu There were only 2 AUR packages that needed to be updated — Brave and Librewolf. So in this case they were pretty much the same unless paru does something different with official arch repos that I am unaware of.