Hello everyone!
I updated the system via command line.
The updating went smooth. No issues.
The reboot process still doesn’t work.
Cold boot process really takes too long time during which I observe just three dots on the gray screen.
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you may want to create a new topic with the issue, so we can better help.
Where to create a topic? In Support section? And what to say? I used to work and doesn’t work at all after several latest testing updates. And my knowledge is too poor to dig into the problem or inform you with some log files. Have no idea.
write a dedicated post here: System Updates - Manjaro Linux Forum. When you remember the last working state, you may check /var/log/pacman.log to see what packages you had installed. post the info of your system and kernels you used/use. It can be anything. Maybe disable kms in mkinitcpio.conf, check if plymouth creates issues for you. Experiment.
Thank you, I will experiment. But my guess is - it is Plymouth.
Branch: Testing
DE / WM: KDE Plasma on X11
CPU: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-3570 CPU @ 3.40GHz
GPU: AMD MCI R7750 2G memory (processor VERDE)
GPU Driver: Cape Verde PRO [Radeon HD 7750/8740 / R7 250E] (ATI Technologies Inc)
Kernel: 6.7.1-1
Bootloader: GRUB
Architecture : AMD64
By the way, is it possible to correct this info in my personal profile inside this Forum? I found out no way.
Here goes the only uncommented line in my mkinitcpio.conf file:
HOOKS=“base udev autodetect modconf block keyboard keymap consolefont plymouth resume filesystems fsck”
What to do to disable kms?
Your KMS is not active, so nothing to do.
To disable plymouth, remove that item from the list in mkinitcpio.conf
do sudo mkinitcpio -P
remove the plymouth package with pacman or pamac
and update-grub before you reboot…
Greetz,
Eddy
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I downgraded Plymouth as was advised by the member cem365mj:
sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/plymouth-22.02.122-15-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
And reboot is working now. The booting process is fast as it should be.
Logs or it didn’t happen. 
We have no idea what happened so we cannot help.
Please see:
Sorry, downgrading packages is never a solution. It should only be a temporary workaround while waiting for a bug fix, perhaps. Plymouth is mostly eye candy and slightly increases boot time. Remove it if you don’t want it. It should never prevent a successful boot. You most likely have underlying issues that also affected Plymouth during the failed boot.
OK. I will do the next.
- I reinstall the fresh Plymouth.
- I reboot/boot several times.
- I will post boot logs here.
The only issue (for me) is WHERE shall I find those logs. Please, give me the pass to the right file.
When you are logged in → click your avatar (top right next to the search)
The address wil be
https://forum.manjaro.org/u/Alex24/preferences/profile
@Alex24 Downgrading Plymouth was temporary to get a bootable system. I subsequently reported that I determined I didn’t need Plymouth and removed the package, modified the Hooks line in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf to remove “Plymouth”, and edited grub to remove “splash” as @Oldhabbits posted above.
Removing Plymouth is not a solution. That way you can remove everything. Plymouth must work perfectly.
I updated Plymouth back to the latest version.
Here goes my bootlog. The first one aborted reboot, the second one cold boot (as far as I understand)
Summary
------------ Fri Jan 26 16:21:58 MSK 2024 ------------
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[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mNetwork Time Synchronization^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Reached target ^[[0;1;39mSystem Initialization^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mCUPS Scheduler^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mDaily Cleanup of Temporary Directories^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Reached target ^[[0;1;39mPath Units^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Reached target ^[[0;1;39mSystem Time Set^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mRefresh existing PGP keys of archlinux-keyring regularly^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mDiscard unused filesystem blocks once a week^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mDaily rotation of log files^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mDaily man-db regeneration^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mMonthly clean packages cache^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mGenerate mirrorlist weekly^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mDaily verification of password and group files^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Reached target ^[[0;1;39mTimer Units^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Listening on ^[[0;1;39mAvahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack Activation Socket^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Listening on ^[[0;1;39mCUPS Scheduler^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Listening on ^[[0;1;39mD-Bus System Message Bus Socket^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Reached target ^[[0;1;39mSocket Units^[[0m.
Starting ^[[0;1;39mD-Bus System Message Bus^[[0m...
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mD-Bus System Message Bus^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Reached target ^[[0;1;39mBasic System^[[0m.
Starting ^[[0;1;39mNetwork Manager^[[0m...
tarting ^[[0;1;39mSave/Restore Sound Card State^[[0m...
Starting ^[[0;1;39mAvahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack^[[0m...
Starting ^[[0;1;39mAuthorization Manager^[[0m...
Starting ^[[0;1;39mUser Login Management^[[0m...
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mAvahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack^[[0m.
Starting ^[[0;1;39mHostname Service^[[0m...
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mUser Login Management^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Finished ^[[0;1;39mSave/Restore Sound Card State^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mAuthorization Manager^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mHostname Service^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Reached target ^[[0;1;39mSound Card^[[0m.
Starting ^[[0;1;39mModem Manager^[[0m...
Starting ^[[0;1;39mNetwork Manager Script Dispatcher Service^[[0m...
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mNetwork Manager Script Dispatcher Service^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mModem Manager^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mNetwork Manager^[[0m.
Starting ^[[0;1;39mNetwork Manager Wait Online^[[0m...
Starting ^[[0;1;39mWPA supplicant^[[0m...
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mWPA supplicant^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Reached target ^[[0;1;39mNetwork^[[0m.
Starting ^[[0;1;39mCUPS Scheduler^[[0m...
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mOutline Proxy Routing Controller^[[0m.
Starting ^[[0;1;39mPermit User Sessions^[[0m...
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Finished ^[[0;1;39mPermit User Sessions^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mCommand Scheduler^[[0m.
Starting ^[[0;1;39mHold until boot process finishes up^[[0m...
Starting ^[[0;1;39mTerminate Plymouth Boot Screen^[[0m...
------------ Fri Jan 26 16:33:15 MSK 2024 ------------
RootManjaro: clean, 479421/4481024 files, 8782713/17920000 blocks
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Finished ^[[0;1;39mRebuild Dynamic Linker Cache^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Finished ^[[0;1;39mCreate Volatile Files and Directories^[[0m.
Starting ^[[0;1;39mRebuild Journal Catalog^[[0m...
Starting ^[[0;1;39mNetwork Time Synchronization^[[0m...
Starting ^[[0;1;39mRecord System Boot/Shutdown in UTMP^[[0m...
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Finished ^[[0;1;39mRebuild Journal Catalog^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mNetwork Time Synchronization^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Finished ^[[0;1;39mRecord System Boot/Shutdown in UTMP^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Reached target ^[[0;1;39mSystem Time Set^[[0m.
Starting ^[[0;1;39mUpdate is Completed^[[0m...
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Finished ^[[0;1;39mUpdate is Completed^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Reached target ^[[0;1;39mSystem Initialization^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mCUPS Scheduler^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mRefresh existing PGP keys of archlinux-keyring regularly^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mDiscard unused filesystem blocks once a week^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mDaily rotation of log files^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mDaily man-db regeneration^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mMonthly clean packages cache^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mGenerate mirrorlist weekly^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mDaily verification of password and group files^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mDaily Cleanup of Temporary Directories^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Reached target ^[[0;1;39mPath Units^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Reached target ^[[0;1;39mTimer Units^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Listening on ^[[0;1;39mAvahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack Activation Socket^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Listening on ^[[0;1;39mCUPS Scheduler^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Listening on ^[[0;1;39mD-Bus System Message Bus Socket^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Reached target ^[[0;1;39mSocket Units^[[0m.
Starting ^[[0;1;39mD-Bus System Message Bus^[[0m...
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mD-Bus System Message Bus^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Reached target ^[[0;1;39mBasic System^[[0m.
Starting ^[[0;1;39mNetwork Manager^[[0m...
Starting ^[[0;1;39mSave/Restore Sound Card State^[[0m...
Starting ^[[0;1;39mAvahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack^[[0m...
Starting ^[[0;1;39mAuthorization Manager^[[0m...
Starting ^[[0;1;39mUser Login Management^[[0m...
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mAvahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack^[[0m.
Starting ^[[0;1;39mHostname Service^[[0m...
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mUser Login Management^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Finished ^[[0;1;39mSave/Restore Sound Card State^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mAuthorization Manager^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Reached target ^[[0;1;39mSound Card^[[0m.
Starting ^[[0;1;39mModem Manager^[[0m...
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mHostname Service^[[0m.
Starting ^[[0;1;39mNetwork Manager Script Dispatcher Service^[[0m...
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mModem Manager^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mNetwork Manager Script Dispatcher Service^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mNetwork Manager^[[0m.
Starting ^[[0;1;39mNetwork Manager Wait Online^[[0m...
Starting ^[[0;1;39mWPA supplicant^[[0m...
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mWPA supplicant^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Reached target ^[[0;1;39mNetwork^[[0m.
Starting ^[[0;1;39mCUPS Scheduler^[[0m...
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mOutline Proxy Routing Controller^[[0m.
Starting ^[[0;1;39mPermit User Sessions^[[0m...
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Finished ^[[0;1;39mPermit User Sessions^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mCommand Scheduler^[[0m.
Starting ^[[0;1;39mHold until boot process finishes up^[[0m...
Starting ^[[0;1;39mTerminate Plymouth Boot Screen^[[0m...
----------- Fri Jan 26 16:35:37 MSK 2024 ------------
RootManjaro: recovering journal
RootManjaro primary superblock features different from backup, check forced.
RootManjaro: | | 0.1%
RootManjaro: |==================== / 41.6%
RootManjaro: |====================== - 45.2%
RootManjaro: |======================== \ 49.4%
RootManjaro: |========================== | 53.6%
RootManjaro: |============================ / 57.8%
RootManjaro: |==================================== - 75.3%
RootManjaro: |======================================= \ 82.1%
RootManjaro: |========================================== | 87.6%
RootManjaro: |=========================================== / 88.6%
RootManjaro: |=========================================== - 89.5%
RootManjaro: |============================================= \ 93.7%
RootManjaro: |================================================| 100.0%
RootManjaro: Feature orphan_present is set but orphan file is clean.
CLEARED.
RootManjaro: 479441/4481024 files (0.2% non-contiguous), 8781707/17920000 blocks
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[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Finished ^[[0;1;39mCreate Volatile Files and Directories^[[0m.
Starting ^[[0;1;39mNetwork Time Synchronization^[[0m...
Starting ^[[0;1;39mRecord System Boot/Shutdown in UTMP^[[0m...
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Finished ^[[0;1;39mRecord System Boot/Shutdown in UTMP^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mNetwork Time Synchronization^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Reached target ^[[0;1;39mSystem Initialization^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mCUPS Scheduler^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mDaily Cleanup of Temporary Directories^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Reached target ^[[0;1;39mPath Units^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Reached target ^[[0;1;39mSystem Time Set^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mRefresh existing PGP keys of archlinux-keyring regularly^[[0m.
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[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mDaily rotation of log files^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mDaily man-db regeneration^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mMonthly clean packages cache^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mGenerate mirrorlist weekly^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mDaily verification of password and group files^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Reached target ^[[0;1;39mTimer Units^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Listening on ^[[0;1;39mAvahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack Activation Socket^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Listening on ^[[0;1;39mCUPS Scheduler^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Listening on ^[[0;1;39mD-Bus System Message Bus Socket^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Reached target ^[[0;1;39mSocket Units^[[0m.
Starting ^[[0;1;39mD-Bus System Message Bus^[[0m...
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mD-Bus System Message Bus^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Reached target ^[[0;1;39mBasic System^[[0m.
Starting ^[[0;1;39mNetwork Manager^[[0m...
Starting ^[[0;1;39mSave/Restore Sound Card State^[[0m...
Starting ^[[0;1;39mAvahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack^[[0m...
Starting ^[[0;1;39mAuthorization Manager^[[0m...
Starting ^[[0;1;39mUser Login Management^[[0m...
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mAvahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack^[[0m.
Starting ^[[0;1;39mHostname Service^[[0m...
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mUser Login Management^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Finished ^[[0;1;39mSave/Restore Sound Card State^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mAuthorization Manager^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Reached target ^[[0;1;39mSound Card^[[0m.
Starting ^[[0;1;39mModem Manager^[[0m...
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mHostname Service^[[0m.
Starting ^[[0;1;39mNetwork Manager Script Dispatcher Service^[[0m...
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mModem Manager^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mNetwork Manager Script Dispatcher Service^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mNetwork Manager^[[0m.
Starting ^[[0;1;39mNetwork Manager Wait Online^[[0m...
Starting ^[[0;1;39mWPA supplicant^[[0m...
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mWPA supplicant^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Reached target ^[[0;1;39mNetwork^[[0m.
Starting ^[[0;1;39mCUPS Scheduler^[[0m...
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mOutline Proxy Routing Controller^[[0m.
Starting ^[[0;1;39mPermit User Sessions^[[0m...
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Finished ^[[0;1;39mPermit User Sessions^[[0m.
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mCommand Scheduler^[[0m.
Starting ^[[0;1;39mHold until boot process finishes up^[[0m...
Starting ^[[0;1;39mTerminate Plymouth Boot Screen^[[0m...
[^[[0;32m OK ^[[0m] Started ^[[0;1;39mCUPS Scheduler^[[0m.
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your issue is with plymouth. If you disable it it seems to work. It sometimes can hinder things and actually needs to be disabled to not to get into issues. Plymouth is just some eye candy. So if it is troublesome on your system, it is recommend to remove it. you can dig into how to set it up correctly by checking this out: Plymouth - ArchWiki. Experiment and if you fail, simply remove it.
OK. Thank you. The point is the system must work smoothly from top to the bottom including eye-candy elements. Plymouth must work! Manjaro must be polished and eye-candy OS.
Manjaro didn’t use plymouth for years. only recently it got added after our own bootsplash didn’t work with recent kernels anymore. Have a glance what issues you might have with plymouth active: Issues · plymouth / plymouth · GitLab / Example: Shutdowns sometimes hangs when plymouth is enabled (#218) · Issues · plymouth / plymouth · GitLab
Why? Did you pay for it? Plymouth is used only by a minority here, it’s optional and has nothing to do with OS functionality.
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