Trouble booting

[j77h]

Been using Manjaro nearly 5 years, and for the first time ever,
cannot get in, and am now using an earlier btrfs snapshot.

The last message on screen was “Finished TLP system startup/shutdown”.

Happens with kernels 5.10 and 5.4, also when booting fallback initramfs.

There were 3 warnings “proc: Bad value for ‘hidepid’”
but apparently this is not fatal, so not the cause of the hang.

The keyboard was alive –
Ctrl+Alt-Del caused proper shutdown and restart;
could get to a TTY (Ctrl+Alt+F2).

But when in the TTY, I could not remember anything useful to do there.
‘startx’ got an error and aborted; startkde does not exist.

What commands could I run to find the cause?

Or better still, if I mount the broken system’s btrfs subvolume,
what should I look for in there, e.g. in its logs, or in pacman files … ?

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[j77h]

Thanks guys.

As I’m running an old snapshot now (and have work to do),
later on I’ll mount the broken subvol
and try chrooting into it to get info from logs and inxi.

[j77h]

Didn’t need to chroot, just looked in the mounted btrfs snapshot subvol.

Can’t run inxi that way; let me know if you really need it.
(Will have to swap system subvols again.)

Summary:
Boot-up seemed normal until it stopped at “Finished TLP system startup/shutdown”.
SDDM did not start.

Did not find any obvious clue in the system log.
The pacman log contains nothing at all from the time when I ran the upgrade.

Had some difficulties before upgrading :
My ffmpeg-libfdk_aac was blocking libvpx
so finally I removed it and installed standard ffmpeg.

Then I only downloaded, with ‘pacman -Suuw’. (my usual way of doing upgrades)

2.5 days later I ran the upgrade from TTY.
(First ran pacman -Syy and -Suuw again to make sure my download was current.)
The upgrade with ‘pacman -Suu’ seemed to proceed normally,
but now I see that NOTHING GOT WRITTEN in /var/log/pacman.log
All the earlier Syy and Suuw is there, but not the actual upgrade.

I’ve done upgrades from TTY before, and always looked in /var/log/pacman.log
after a successful reboot and login to KDE.
This is the first time an upgrade was not recorded there

systemd log, boot 0 (when it did not start SDDM) :

2021-12-01T23:07:07.259104+0000 kernel:
2021-12-01T23:07:08.031774+0000 systemd-udevd[334]: vboxdrvu: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-vboxdrv.rules:2 Only network interfaces can be renamed, ignoring NAME="vboxdrvu".
2021-12-01T23:07:08.032457+0000 systemd-udevd[339]: vboxdrv: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-vboxdrv.rules:1 Only network interfaces can be renamed, ignoring NAME="vboxdrv".
2021-12-01T23:07:08.033161+0000 systemd-udevd[328]: vboxnetctl: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-vboxdrv.rules:3 Only network interfaces can be renamed, ignoring NAME="vboxnetctl".
2021-12-01T23:07:08.851362+0000 systemd-udevd[304]: vboxdrv: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-vboxdrv.rules:1 Only network interfaces can be renamed, ignoring NAME="vboxdrv".
2021-12-01T23:07:08.851367+0000 systemd-udevd[341]: vboxdrvu: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-vboxdrv.rules:2 Only network interfaces can be renamed, ignoring NAME="vboxdrvu".
2021-12-01T23:07:08.851369+0000 systemd-udevd[325]: vboxnetctl: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-vboxdrv.rules:3 Only network interfaces can be renamed, ignoring NAME="vboxnetctl".
2021-12-01T23:07:28.255438+0000 pppd[1684]: Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP
2021-12-01T23:09:10.608306+0000 sddm-helper[1791]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
2021-12-01T23:09:14.335303+0000 kup-daemon[2104]: kup.daemon: "Kup is not enabled, enable it from the system settings module. You can do that by running kcmshell5 kup"
2021-12-01T23:09:38.239415+0000 pulseaudio[1938]: GetManagedObjects() failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

systemd log, boot -2 (when it was still booting up normally) :

2021-12-01T08:19:57.366813+0000 kernel:
2021-12-01T08:19:57.938058+0000 systemd-udevd[316]: vboxdrv: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-vboxdrv.rules:1 Only network interfaces can be renamed, ignoring NAME="vboxdrv".
2021-12-01T08:19:57.938179+0000 systemd-udevd[333]: vboxdrvu: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-vboxdrv.rules:2 Only network interfaces can be renamed, ignoring NAME="vboxdrvu".
2021-12-01T08:19:57.938513+0000 systemd-udevd[312]: vboxnetctl: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-vboxdrv.rules:3 Only network interfaces can be renamed, ignoring NAME="vboxnetctl".
2021-12-01T08:19:58.350731+0000 systemd-udevd[312]: vboxdrv: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-vboxdrv.rules:1 Only network interfaces can be renamed, ignoring NAME="vboxdrv".
2021-12-01T08:19:58.350917+0000 systemd-udevd[339]: vboxdrvu: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-vboxdrv.rules:2 Only network interfaces can be renamed, ignoring NAME="vboxdrvu".
2021-12-01T08:19:58.350951+0000 systemd-udevd[309]: vboxnetctl: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-vboxdrv.rules:3 Only network interfaces can be renamed, ignoring NAME="vboxnetctl".
2021-12-01T08:19:59.297403+0000 systemd-udevd[330]: could not read from '/sys/module/acpi_cpufreq/initstate': No such device
2021-12-01T08:20:18.039921+0000 pppd[1660]: Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP
2021-12-01T08:20:45.127739+0000 sddm-helper[1767]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
2021-12-01T08:20:49.070798+0000 kup-daemon[2080]: kup.daemon: "Kup is not enabled, enable it from the system settings module. You can do that by running kcmshell5 kup"
2021-12-01T08:21:12.970793+0000 pulseaudio[1912]: GetManagedObjects() failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
2021-12-01T14:21:11.715608+0000 systemd-coredump[15524]: Failed to connect to coredump service: Connection refused
2021-12-01T14:21:14.199026+0000 pulseaudio[1912]: Error opening PCM device front:0: No such file or directory
2021-12-01T14:21:14.199232+0000 pulseaudio[1912]: Error opening PCM device front:0: No such file or directory

pacman log and notes:

[2021-11-30T06:56:03+1000] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Sy'
[2021-11-30T06:56:03+1000] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists

[2021-11-30T06:56:22+1000] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Suuw'
[2021-11-30T06:56:22+1000] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade


	[jh@SSD2 211130 06:56:16 zp0]$ sudo pacman -Suuw
	...
	:: installing libvpx (1.11.0-1) breaks dependency 'libvpx.so=6-64' required by ffmpeg-libfdk_aac
	:: installing x264 (3:0.163.r3060.5db6aa6-1) breaks dependency 'libx264.so=161-64' required by ffmpeg-libfdk_aac

	virtualbox required libvpx update, but i didn't know it at the time.


	update ffmpeg-libfdk_aac

	[jh@SSD2 211130 22:45:18 zp0]$ pikaur -S ffmpeg-libfdk_aac
	:: New dependencies will be installed from repository:
	 amf-headers (for ffmpeg-libfdk_aac)                        -> 1.4.21-2       0.05 MiB
	 ffnvcodec-headers (for ffmpeg-libfdk_aac)                  -> 11.1.5.0-1     0.06 MiB
	:: AUR package will be installed:
	 ffmpeg-libfdk_aac                     1:4.4-2              -> 1:4.4.1-2


[2021-11-30T22:45:53+1000] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --color=always --sync --asdeps amf-headers ffnvcodec-headers'
[2021-11-30T22:45:57+1000] [ALPM] transaction started
[2021-11-30T22:45:57+1000] [ALPM] upgraded archlinux-keyring (20210902-1 -> 20211028-1)
[2021-11-30T22:45:57+1000] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Appending keys from archlinux.gpg...
[2021-11-30T22:46:00+1000] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Updating trust database...
[2021-11-30T22:46:00+1000] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] gpg: next trustdb check due at 2022-01-20
[2021-11-30T22:46:00+1000] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Updating trust database...
[2021-11-30T22:46:00+1000] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] gpg: next trustdb check due at 2022-01-20
[2021-11-30T22:46:00+1000] [ALPM] transaction completed
[2021-11-30T22:46:00+1000] [ALPM] running '30-systemd-update.hook'...
[2021-11-30T22:46:00+1000] [ALPM] running 'rebuild-detector.hook'...
[2021-11-30T22:46:07+1000] [ALPM] transaction started
[2021-11-30T22:46:07+1000] [ALPM] installed amf-headers (1.4.21-2)
[2021-11-30T22:46:07+1000] [ALPM] installed ffnvcodec-headers (11.1.5.0-1)
[2021-11-30T22:46:07+1000] [ALPM] transaction completed
[2021-11-30T22:46:07+1000] [ALPM] running '30-systemd-update.hook'...

	took about 15 min to build

[2021-11-30T23:01:49+1000] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --color=always --remove amf-headers ffnvcodec-headers'
[2021-11-30T23:01:49+1000] [ALPM] transaction started
[2021-11-30T23:01:49+1000] [ALPM] removed ffnvcodec-headers (11.1.5.0-1)
[2021-11-30T23:01:49+1000] [ALPM] removed amf-headers (1.4.21-2)
[2021-11-30T23:01:49+1000] [ALPM] transaction completed
[2021-11-30T23:01:49+1000] [ALPM] running '30-systemd-update.hook'...
[2021-11-30T23:01:50+1000] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --color=always --upgrade /home/jh/.cache/pikaur/pkg/ffmpeg-libfdk_aac-1:4.4.1-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst'
[2021-11-30T23:01:51+1000] [ALPM] transaction started
[2021-11-30T23:01:51+1000] [ALPM] upgraded ffmpeg-libfdk_aac (1:4.4-2 -> 1:4.4.1-2)
[2021-11-30T23:01:51+1000] [ALPM] transaction completed
[2021-11-30T23:01:51+1000] [ALPM] running '30-systemd-update.hook'...
[2021-11-30T23:01:51+1000] [ALPM] running 'rebuild-detector.hook'...

	Packages (1) ffmpeg-libfdk_aac-1:4.4.1-2
	---
	(1/1) upgrading ffmpeg-libfdk_aac                                                              [########################################################] 100%
	New optional dependencies for ffmpeg-libfdk_aac
		intel-media-sdk: Intel QuickSync support
		nvidia-utils: Nvidia NVDEC/NVENC support [installed]
	:: Running post-transaction hooks...
	(1/2) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
	(2/2) Checking which packages need to be rebuilt
	[jh@SSD2 211130 23:01:54 zp0]$



[2021-11-30T23:03:23+1000] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Suuw'
[2021-11-30T23:03:23+1000] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade

[2021-11-30T23:06:01+1000] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Suuw'
[2021-11-30T23:06:01+1000] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade


	# upgrade still cannot start, so remove ffmpeg-libfdk_aac


[2021-11-30T23:06:57+1000] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Rsu ffmpeg-libfdk_aac'

[2021-11-30T23:08:28+1000] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Suuw'
[2021-11-30T23:08:28+1000] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade

[2021-11-30T23:09:03+1000] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Rsu ffmpeg-libfdk_aac'

[2021-11-30T23:09:14+1000] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Suuw'
[2021-11-30T23:09:14+1000] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade

[2021-11-30T23:11:29+1000] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Rssu ffmpeg-libfdk_aac'

[2021-11-30T23:12:05+1000] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Rss ffmpeg-libfdk_aac'

	# now there is no ffmpeg, but many packages require it

	# so install standard ffmpeg

[2021-11-30T23:13:19+1000] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S ffmpeg'
[2021-11-30T23:14:16+1000] [ALPM] transaction started
[2021-11-30T23:14:16+1000] [ALPM] removed ffmpeg-libfdk_aac (1:4.4.1-2)
[2021-11-30T23:14:16+1000] [ALPM] upgraded libvpx (1.10.0-1 -> 1.11.0-1)
[2021-11-30T23:14:16+1000] [ALPM] upgraded x264 (3:0.161.r3039.544c61f-1 -> 3:0.163.r3060.5db6aa6-1)
[2021-11-30T23:14:16+1000] [ALPM] installed ffmpeg (2:4.4.1-1)
[2021-11-30T23:14:17+1000] [ALPM] transaction completed
[2021-11-30T23:14:17+1000] [ALPM] running '30-systemd-update.hook'...
[2021-11-30T23:14:17+1000] [ALPM] running 'rebuild-detector.hook'...


[2021-11-30T23:16:02+1000] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syy'
[2021-11-30T23:16:02+1000] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2021-11-30T23:16:15+1000] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Suuw'
[2021-11-30T23:16:15+1000] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade

	# now system upgrade can run, but was using 'global' server; it was too slow,
	# so i killed the process after getting only 'nvidia-utils-495.44-4-x86_64'

[2021-11-30T23:33:54+1000] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syy'
[2021-11-30T23:33:54+1000] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2021-11-30T23:34:04+1000] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Suuw'
[2021-11-30T23:34:04+1000] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade

	# success, got all the packages

	I did not run the update until 2.5 days later
	(c 211202 1130 +1000)

	Logged out of KDE, switched to TTY, ran 'sudo pacman -Suu'
	it seemed to proceed normally, but now i find

	IT DID NOT WRITE ANYTHING INTO PACMAN.LOG

	the timestamp on the pacman.log file matches the last entry above :
	$ ll /mnt/snap/syst@211202_113407_borked/var/log/pacman.log
	-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3847562 211130_233404.537 '/mnt/snap/syst@211202_113407_borked/var/log/pacman.log'

inxi from the currently running snapshot, not the one that failed

[jh@SSD2 211205 05:55:29 zp0]$ inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --width
System:
  Kernel: 5.10.63-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@syst/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64
  root=UUID=6205d844-ae0c-41a7-af1d-100a432fc03d rw rootflags=subvol=@syst
  sysrq_always_enabled=1 resume=UUID=5f991047-4839-44a3-97bb-18948a58fadf
  elevator=noop
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.22.5 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM
  Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Z420 Workstation v: N/A
  serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 6 serial: <filter>
  Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 1589 v: 0.00 serial: <filter>
  UEFI-[Legacy]: Hewlett-Packard v: J61 v03.94 date: 07/10/2018
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard K270
  serial: <filter> charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes
  status: Discharging
  Device-2: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse M325
  serial: <filter> charge: 100% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes
  status: Discharging
Memory:
  RAM: total: 31.28 GiB used: 4.64 GiB (14.8%)
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
  Info: 8-Core model: Intel Xeon E5-2665 0 bits: 64 type: MCP
  arch: Sandy Bridge family: 6 model-id: 2D (45) stepping: 7 microcode: 71A
  cache: L2: 20 MiB bogomips: 38325
  Speed: 1376 MHz min/max: 1200/3100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1376 2: 1405
  3: 1327 4: 1404 5: 1242 6: 2053 7: 1302 8: 1205
  Flags: acpi aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon avx bts clflush cmov
  constant_tsc cpuid cx16 cx8 dca de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept est
  flexpriority flush_l1d fpu fxsr ht ibpb ibrs ida lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear
  mmx monitor msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm
  pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts rdtscp rep_good sep smx ss
  ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc
  tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic xsave xsaveopt xtopology xtpr
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf
  mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT disabled
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled
  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, RSB filling
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GK107GL [Quadro K2000] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  driver: nvidia v: 470.63.01 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 04:00.0
  chip-ID: 10de:0ffe class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 compositor: kwin_x11 driver:
  loaded: nvidia display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 69 s-size: 707x392mm (27.8x15.4")
  s-diag: 808mm (31.8")
  Monitor-1: DVI-I-1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 70
  size: 698x393mm (27.5x15.5") diag: 801mm (31.5")
  OpenGL: renderer: Quadro K2000/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 470.63.01
  direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel C600/X79 series High Definition Audio
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
  chip-ID: 8086:1d20 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA GK107 HDMI Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 04:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0e1b
  class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.63-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: sndio v: N/A running: no
  Sound Server-3: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
  Sound Server-4: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-5: PipeWire v: 0.3.35 running: no
Network:
  Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  driver: e1000e v: kernel port: e040 bus-ID: 00:19.0 chip-ID: 8086:1502
  class-ID: 0200
  IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
  IF-ID-1: ppp0 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A
  IP v4: <filter> scope: global
  WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Message: No bluetooth data found.
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
  Device-1: zp0 type: zfs status: ONLINE level: mirror raw: size: 3.62 TiB
  free: 209 GiB allocated: 3.42 TiB zfs-fs: size: 3.51 TiB free: 93.87 GiB
  Components: Online:
  1: sda maj-min: 8:0 size: 3.64 TiB
  2: sdb maj-min: 8:16 size: 3.64 TiB
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 7.73 TiB used: 3.65 TiB (47.2%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST4000DM000-1F2168
  size: 3.64 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
  type: HDD rpm: 5900 serial: <filter> rev: CC54 scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Seagate model: ST4000DM000-1F2168
  size: 3.64 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
  type: HDD rpm: 5900 serial: <filter> rev: CC54 scheme: GPT
  ID-3: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 500GB
  size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s
  type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 2B6Q scheme: GPT
  Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 441.52 GiB size: 441.52 GiB (100.00%)
  used: 237.74 GiB (53.8%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sdc3 maj-min: 8:35 label: STUFF
  uuid: 6205d844-ae0c-41a7-af1d-100a432fc03d
  ID-2: /mnt/bigs raw-size: 441.52 GiB size: 441.52 GiB (100.00%)
  used: 237.74 GiB (53.8%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sdc3 maj-min: 8:35 label: STUFF
  uuid: 6205d844-ae0c-41a7-af1d-100a432fc03d
  ID-3: /mnt/info raw-size: 441.52 GiB size: 441.52 GiB (100.00%)
  used: 237.74 GiB (53.8%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sdc3 maj-min: 8:35 label: STUFF
  uuid: 6205d844-ae0c-41a7-af1d-100a432fc03d
  ID-4: /mnt/snap raw-size: 441.52 GiB size: 441.52 GiB (100.00%)
  used: 237.74 GiB (53.8%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sdc3 maj-min: 8:35 label: STUFF
  uuid: 6205d844-ae0c-41a7-af1d-100a432fc03d
  ID-5: /mnt/vid1 raw-size: 441.52 GiB size: 441.52 GiB (100.00%)
  used: 237.74 GiB (53.8%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sdc3 maj-min: 8:35 label: STUFF
  uuid: 6205d844-ae0c-41a7-af1d-100a432fc03d
  ID-6: /mnt/vid2 raw-size: 441.52 GiB size: 441.52 GiB (100.00%)
  used: 237.74 GiB (53.8%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sdc3 maj-min: 8:35 label: STUFF
  uuid: 6205d844-ae0c-41a7-af1d-100a432fc03d
  ID-7: /mnt/work raw-size: 441.52 GiB size: 441.52 GiB (100.00%)
  used: 237.74 GiB (53.8%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sdc3 maj-min: 8:35 label: STUFF
  uuid: 6205d844-ae0c-41a7-af1d-100a432fc03d
  ID-8: /mnt/zp0 raw-size: N/A size: 3.46 TiB used: 3.37 TiB (97.4%) fs: zfs
  logical: zp0
  ID-9: /mnt/zp0/VOL_nocompress raw-size: N/A size: 144.83 GiB
  used: 50.96 GiB (35.2%) fs: zfs logical: zp0/VOL_nocompress
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 1 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 24 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
  dev: /dev/sdc4 maj-min: 8:36 label: SWAP
  uuid: 5f991047-4839-44a3-97bb-18948a58fadf
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/sdc1 maj-min: 8:33 size: 2 MiB fs: <superuser required>
  label: N/A uuid: N/A
  ID-2: /dev/sdc2 maj-min: 8:34 size: 240 MiB fs: vfat label: EFISYS
  uuid: ADBB-99F8
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-2: 1-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 8087:0024 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-1.3:3 info: Logitech Unifying Receiver type: Keyboard,Mouse,HID
  driver: logitech-djreceiver,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
  power: 98mA chip-ID: 046d:c52b class-ID: 0300
  Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-4: 2-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 8 rev: 2.0
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 8087:0024 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-5: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-6: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 39.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 41 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 30%
Info:
  Processes: 364 Uptime: 1h 1m wakeups: 6 Init: systemd v: 249 tool: systemctl
  Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 clang: 12.0.1 Packages: apt: 0 pacman: 1667 lib: 294
  Shell: Bash v: 5.1.8 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.06
[jh@SSD2 211205 05:55:37 zp0]$

Fini.

[cscs]

@j77h

  Device-1: NVIDIA GK107GL [Quadro K2000] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  driver: nvidia v: 470.63.01

@j77h

# so i killed the process after getting only 'nvidia-utils-495.44-4-x86_64'

This is why I wanted the inxi

I think you are among the many that got kicked up to nvidia-495 at the same time nvidia dropped support for your card. So … just use mhwd to reinstall the 470xx series and remove the 495xx.
(from chroot I suppose)
I have a strong suspicion this is your issue. Example related thread:

Update borked something

Probably your card cant handle 495 … use mhwd to remove it and reinstall 470. https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/Configure_Graphics_Cards Example: mhwd -l -d sudo mhwd -r pci video-nvidia sudo mhwd -f -i pci video-nvidia-470xx systemctl reboot

[j77h]

@cscs

I think you are among the many that got kicked up to nvidia-495 at the same time nvidia dropped support for your card.

Now I remember checking that out and thinking “my card’s OK if I just stay on 470”.
Didn’t realize Manjaro was going to push me onto 495 without me asking for it.

Thanks.

[cscs]

@j77h

Didn’t realize Manjaro was going to push me onto 495 without me asking for it.

Me neither. It really isnt an issue with anything other than the nvidia (which manjaro keeps multiple versions around as a niceity) … and I am not sure that was always the behavior … but it seemed to happen last update. Again, along with a bunch of cards being dropped by nvidia - so here we are with those threads I keep repeating myself in
Obviously, regardless of the automation, the listing of available or compatible cards with 495xx (mhwd db) probably needs some fixing up.

Of course - let us know if we actually found the culprit in your case

[j77h]

@cscs

let us know if we actually found the culprit

You did. Thanks.
Using nouveau now.

[j77h]

@j77h

NOTHING GOT WRITTEN in /var/log/pacman.log

Why the logs were not complete:
I was looking at a snapshot taken just BEFORE the upgrade !
( It was a very hot day. )

The correct system log has a clear message :
“The NVIDIA Quadro K2000 GPU installed in this system is supported through the NVIDIA 470.xx Legacy drivers. … The 495.44 NVIDIA driver will ignore this GPU.”