Hello.
One day I woke up and couldn’t boot my Manjaro setup. There was this “Failed to start kernel modules” error.
I searched the forum and tried chrooting from a live boot and updating system+reinstalling grub. After that I couldn’t even reach the error message. It’ll stop at spashscreen.
I only had 5.4 kernel before the boot problem. I also installed 5.10 after chrooting to give that a try. Seems no sucess.
Here’s inxi -Fazy
output from live env:
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_KDEM_2021 quiet systemd.show_status=1
apparmor=1 security=apparmor driver=free nouveau.modeset=1 i915.modeset=1
radeon.modeset=1
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.20.4 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM
Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: X541UVK v: 1.0 serial: <filter>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: X541UVK v: 1.0 serial: <filter>
UEFI: American Megatrends v: X541UVK.308 date: 01/30/2018
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 8.1 Wh condition: 24.8/34.6 Wh (72%) volts: 10.8/10.8
model: ASUSTeK ASUS Battery type: Li-ion serial: N/A status: Charging
cycles: 990
CPU:
Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-7200U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Amber/Kaby Lake note: check family: 6 model-id: 8E (142) stepping: 9
microcode: DE L2 cache: 3 MiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
bogomips: 21607
Speed: 3100 MHz min/max: 400/3100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3100 2: 3100
3: 3100 4: 3100
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf
mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
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 status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 620 vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915 v: kernel
bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:5916
Device-2: NVIDIA GM108M [GeForce 920MX] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nouveau
v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:134f
Device-3: IMC Networks USB2.0 VGA UVC WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo
bus ID: 1-6:4 chip ID: 13d3:5a01 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 compositor: kwin_x11
driver: intel,nouveau unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa
display ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2")
s-diag: 582mm (22.9")
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.1
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl bus ID: 00:1f.3
chip ID: 8086:9d71
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.9.16-1-MANJARO
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000 bus ID: 02:00.2 chip ID: 10ec:8136
IF: enp2s0f2 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Lite-On
driver: rtl8723be v: kernel port: c000 bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:b723
IF: wlp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.37 TiB used: 110.1 MiB (0.0%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 500GB
size: 465.76 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
serial: <filter> rev: 4B6Q
ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM035-1RK172
size: 931.51 GiB block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
serial: <filter> rev: SDM1
ID-3: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 type: USB vendor: Generic model: Flash Disk
size: 7.5 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B serial: <filter>
rev: 8.07
SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
Partition:
ID-1: / raw size: N/A size: 8.69 GiB used: 110.1 MiB (1.2%) fs: overlay
source: ERR-102
Swap:
Alert: No Swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 65.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2700
Info:
Processes: 197 Uptime: 1m wakeups: 1 Memory: 11.58 GiB
used: 1.38 GiB (11.9%) Init: systemd v: 247 Compilers: gcc: N/A Packages:
pacman: 1114 lib: 342 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.0 running in: konsole inxi: 3.2.0