After update: Failed to start Load Kernel Modules (manjaro-chroot not working!)

[hkiri]

Hello,

after an update yesterday evening I can no longer boot into Manjaro. It just shows “[FAILED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules” multiple times and then those messages disappear and I’m left with a black screen.

I have already tried the method using a live usb and use
manjaro-chroot -a
and
pacman -Syu grub or sudo update-grub
but none of those work.

(at this point I would have attached some links to threads I found in this forum but I’m not allowed to do so…)

Now I don’t know what I should try next, because this is basically what everyone tells people to do and it always helped them. But unfortunately it doesn’t work in my case

Thanks in advance!

[Wollie]

Welcome here, @hkiri

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[hkiri]

Oh sorry! What kind of information would you like to see? Just the system information?

System:
  Kernel: 5.9.16-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-x86_64 lang=en_US keytable=us tz=UTC 
  misobasedir=manjaro misolabel=MANJARO_XFCE_2021 quiet systemd.show_status=1 
  apparmor=1 security=apparmor driver=free nouveau.modeset=1 i915.modeset=1 
  radeon.modeset=1 
  Desktop: Xfce 4.14.3 tk: Gtk 3.24.23 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 
  dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: Z170 PRO GAMING v: Rev X.0x 
  serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 3606 date: 02/22/2018 
CPU:
  Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-6700K bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Skylake-S family: 6 model-id: 5E (94) stepping: 3 microcode: E2 
  L2 cache: 8 MiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 bogomips: 64026 
  Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/4200 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 
  4: 801 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported 
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion 
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, 
  IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode 
  Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] vendor: Micro-Star MSI 
  driver: nouveau v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:13c2 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 driver: nouveau unloaded: modesetting 
  alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa display ID: :0.0 screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x1440 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 677x381mm (26.7x15.0") 
  s-diag: 777mm (30.6") 
  Monitor-1: DVI-I-1 res: 2560x1440 hz: 60 dpi: 109 
  size: 597x336mm (23.5x13.2") diag: 685mm (27") 
  OpenGL: renderer: NV124 v: 4.3 Mesa 20.3.1 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 100 Series/C230 Series Family HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:a170 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GM204 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 10de:0fbb 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.9.16-1-MANJARO 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: ASUSTeK driver: e1000e v: kernel 
  port: f000 bus ID: 00:1f.6 chip ID: 8086:15b8 
  IF: enp0s31f6 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 2.49 TiB used: 119 MiB (0.0%) 
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Corsair model: Force MP510 
  size: 894.25 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s 
  lanes: 4 serial: <filter> rev: ECFM22.5 temp: 33.9 C 
  ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 840 EVO 250GB 
  size: 232.89 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  serial: <filter> rev: BB6Q 
  ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 500GB 
  size: 465.76 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  serial: <filter> rev: 2B6Q 
  ID-4: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM003-1CH162 
  size: 931.51 GiB block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  serial: <filter> rev: CC47 
  ID-5: /dev/sdd maj-min: 8:48 type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Ultra 
  size: 28.97 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B serial: <filter> 
  rev: 1.00 
  SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure? 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw size: N/A size: 23.48 GiB used: 119 MiB (0.5%) fs: overlay 
  source: ERR-102 
Swap:
  Alert: No Swap data was found. 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: nouveau temp: 41.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nouveau fan: 0 
Info:
  Processes: 263 Uptime: 2m wakeups: 0 Memory: 31.31 GiB used: 2.09 GiB (6.7%) 
  Init: systemd v: 247 Compilers: gcc: N/A Packages: pacman: 1203 lib: 370 
  flatpak: 0 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.0 running in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.2.01

[adrinux]

I’ve been suffering similarly on one box today.
The nouveau driver for my nvidia card wasn’t loading.

Still able to ctrl+alt+f3 to a console and work to fix it. Also tried working from a chroot.

Check your journal for errors:

 journalctl -p 4 -b

You’ll probably find the system is not loading graphics drivers.

I checked /etc/modprobe.d and removed the mhwd-gpu.conf there that was blacklisting the nouveau driver - should really have been removed with the nvidia drivers.

Still had the same problem. After really scouring the pamac for old nvidia drivers and repeated reinstalls of video-linux with mwhd it still wasn’t working.

I discovered /etc/modules-load.d had a file mhwd-gpu.conf too, specifying nvidia and nvidia-drm, commented out those and was finally able to boot into a graphical session again.

Hope that helps.

[realmain]

Have you tried this?

Failed to start Load Kernel Modules - after update

I had the same error. It turned out to be NVIDIA-related. At the error, press CTRL + ALT + F2 to get into tty. Log in. This is what I did to fix it: My card is not old GTX1050Ti. Execute, mhwd -a pci free 0300 I used pamac to remove any existing NVIDIA drivers, and then used pamac search -r nvidia to find the latest drivers (460.32.03-3). I installed the linux54-nvidia package because I’m running the 5.4 kernel. You may also need nvidia-utils. If you are running older hardware, you may nee…

[hkiri]

Thanks a lot! That solved my problem