[arch-general] desktop crash after upgrade

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On 11/28/2017 10:26 PM, niya via arch-general wrote:
> hi everyone
>
> i have a intel atom netbook that i have arch installed on and have
> been using it for the last couple of years without any issues,
> after doing a pacman -Syu recently when i reboot it gets through boot
> up to the point of setting up the desktop and then crashes with  2
> thirds of the screen from left to right fill with a random rows of
> dots on a black background and the last third has my desktop with an
> exit icon at the bottom,
> i went through the process of downgrading the kernel and got it to
> boot normally again
> i thought that because it was a 32 bit computer the problem was to do
> with arch no longer supporting the i686 architecture
> so i migrated the laptop to  Arch Linux 32, everything went smoothly ,
> after the migration i rebooted the laptop  and i was back with the
> same problem.
> i chrooted into the laptop with a live usb stick and retrieved a
> portion of the journal
> here,s the log. error-report
> <http://codepad.org/mtWYqv2N>
> my Desktop Environment is lxde
> if more of the logs are needed please let me know
>
> i would be thankful for any pointers to fixing the problem
>
> shadrock
>
>
my guess would be more 4.13 problems like this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1498725

you were probably right to downgrade. you might try that again.

good luck.