[arch-general] desktop crash after upgrade

jack araticsu at gmail.com
Wed Nov 29 07:28:04 UTC 2017


Hi there

you might consider to first, report issue with your environment, like
hardware or system version

and, this seems more likely a video card driver issue, check out the
driver for your netbook module, 

and it's should have a compatible one



On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 04:26:37AM +0000, 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
> 


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