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Ran into a weird issue today. I upgraded a bunch of packages, including the kernel to v4.15.4-1 (from 4.15.3-1). But for some reason the system was un-bootable. The boot process would get part-way through, then the booting screen would suddenly start showing its text on a green background (rather than black) and it would freeze.

It took some jumping through hoops, but I was eventually able to boot to a chroot environment, upgrade to a newer kernel (v4.15.5-1) and suddenly the problem magically went away and my machine boots fine.

Anyone have any idea what might have happened here? I'm assuming it was a bad kernel build, but I'd like to know for sure. I didn't see any recent bugs under the "linux" kernel package that matched what I was seeing.

Thanks,

DR Marcelo "Marc" Ranolfi via arch-general writes:

Have a look at the changelogs: https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.15.4 and https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.15.5.

Looks like it could be a DRM issue. Which graphics hardware and driver stack are you using?

- Marc

On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 10:39 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote:

Hello, I expperience exactly the same here, but also with linux 4.15.3-2. Linux 4.15.3-1 works fine. I have a NVIDIA GF119 [Geforce GT610] with nouveau driver. Best Regards Stefan