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dirkd
All of a sudden my Antix21 system – which was running flawlessly for several months now – can’t boot up anymore with the 5.10.57 kernel (amd64-smp version) that I’m using normally. It hangs while displaying the ‘waiting for /dev to be fully populated’, at the same time changing the screen background from black to green.
The only thing I remember I did in the last working session was the installation of a VLC plugin, while at the same time updating to the new -nosystemd versions of the program. I also shut down the system while a hot-plugable USB BluRay player was attached, which I don’t do normally. I WAS able to boot using the 4.9.0-279 kernel, that was also installed on my system. This is not a solution however, since this kernel doesn’t support all of my hardware. In this way I was able to uninstall everything VLC-related, but that didn’t solve the problem.
I also tried updating kernels to no avail. Kernels 5.10.104 and 4.19.202 both refuse to boot in the same manner. Kernel 4.9.0-279 is the only one I can boot up, but it too displays an error message that I don’t remember seeing before: ‘error parsing PCC subspaces from PCCT’.
What can I try to fix this, short of reinstalling? Any suggestion is wellcome. Ideas to troubleshoot this further are wellcome too.
sybok
Hi, not an expert but a quick web-search indicates:
1) https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=96090
Suggests this may be related to graphic card driver.
2) https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=3621 -> https://bugs.devuan.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=483
Points towards ‘eudev’ that could contribute to it.Could you post more details regarding installed graphics drivers and ‘eudev’?
Robin
I have seen this strange hanging on “waiting for /dev to be fully populated” some times also before. This can be caused by many different reasons. Obviously your system waits for some device in /dev which wouldn’t respond correctly as expected. Since your screen turns green, this could be a hint to an graphics device issue, either conflicting with some other hardware, or simply using a broken driver. And probably the new message ‘error parsing PCC subspaces from PCCT’ gives you a key what causes the problem. Try searching the web for it, you’ll see this is quite a common issue and can have many reasons also.
What I would do is, checking:
1.) Check if you can still boot from an antiX live Medium to the modern kernel.
If this fails all of a sudden on a machine known to be running fine on it before, you might check whether some BIOS settings have been changed. In some rare cases you might even need a BIOS update.2.) In case you have a dual boot with a windows installation make sure to uncheck the checkbox »Turn on fast startup (recommended)«
Windows → Control Panel → All Control Panel Items → Power Options → System Settings → Change settings that are currently unavailable (UAC)
This Hiberboot feature (fast startup) used by windows per default is known to make this kind of trouble when active on dual boot machines.3.) Broken graphics drivers can cause this error also. Check if you can boot into antiX safe video mode from boot menu.
Then check the dmesg output for problems.4.) Check the filesystems on your drives/partitions for corruption and the drives themselves for bad sectors and other errors.
In my case it was simply a bad sector on an additional internal hdd. Removing this broken hdd has solved the issue for me completely. But you will probably find some other reason causing this on your machine.
Windows is like a submarine. Open a window and serious problems will start.
silvioto
Anticapitalista suggested me the best and quick solution:
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/kernel-5-10-57-dont-boot-after-update/#post-81223😀
I made it setting grub to boot the 4.9 kernel.
Anticapitalista suggested me the best and quick solution:
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boot the 4.9 kernel↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓↑↓
I WAS able to boot using the 4.9.0-279 kernel, that was also installed on my system. This is not a solution however, since this kernel doesn’t support all of my hardware.
Windows is like a submarine. Open a window and serious problems will start.
silvioto
I WAS able to boot using the 4.9.0-279 kernel, that was also installed on my system. This is not a solution however, since this kernel doesn’t support all of my hardware.
Yes I know, I hope this issue is taken seriously by the Antix staff 🙂
- This reply was modified 1 year ago by silvioto.
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