Hey everyone,
So I did my usual weekly system update with paru -Syu this morning. The update went through normally. nothing major, no core packages, Nvidia, or Plasma updates from what I could tell when I glanced at the packages. I also checked the Arch news beforehand to see if anything required manual intervention and there was nothing.
I went ahead and rebooted and tried logging into a Wayland session from SDDM, and it froze on the desktop immediately. Couldn’t even get into a TTY from there.
This issue is somewhat familiar and has happened to me before. Usually, it’s fixable by rebooting or unplugging and plugging back in an external monitor. So I did a forced reboot (holding power) and tried again same freeze. Tried once more, still the same.
Then I booted into X11, logged in, and initially it seemed fine. I resized the scaling to 125% (it was at 100%), logged out and tried logging back into x11 and it froze again.
I had no idea what broke. I ended up going into TTY from GRUB and restoring a Timeshift snapshot from a day ago. After that, I could log in normally again.
Has anyone else run into this issue?
PS: I wanted to check the journal and debug it, but I had to catch a bus for vacation, so my laptop is at home. Will try to investigate more later.
Yep the same issue. I also have a Asus TUF A15. Will wait for the kernel 6.18.8 or 6.19 update. Although there wasn’t a kernel update when I ran the update command, it might be some sort of regression of some package I didn’t notice while updating. And also I changed the refresh rate from 60hz to 144hz in x11 session apart from the scaling. Wayland was already on 144hz.
I have this bug/problems for months now…
Paru -Syu ≠ pacman -Syu.
Give it a couple days time and upgrade again. 99% chances that it is fixed till then.
Give it a couple days time and upgrade again
Yeah I will try next weekend and maybe wait for the kernel 6.19 update.
Paru -Syu ≠ pacman -Syu There were only 2 AUR packages that needed to be updated — Brave and Librewolf. So in this case they were pretty much the same unless paru does something different with official arch repos that I am unaware of.