latest testing update broke my laptop
My laptop no longer boots thanks to the latest update. It stops after I
select a normal boot - it goes to the text mode console and displays an
error message about: [ 0.717939] ACPI BIOS Error (bug).
If I go into recovery mode, I don't get that error but then it stops
after a message about the nouveau driver. I never get to a command prompt.
I can boot from System Rescus CD. I get the same BIOS error message but
then it continues on as if it wasn't important.
I tried updating the BIOS but that did nothing to resolve the problem. I
did a reinstall and the problem survives.
The problem actually started earlier in the day, when I did the apt
full-upgrade. It updated the nvidia drivers so it wanted a reboot. When
I rebooted, it refused to start sddm. It just sat there. I rebooted into
recovery mode and changed to lightdm, which did the same thing. Gdm3
actually switched into a graphics mode before hanging.
I purged the nvidia drivers and that was when the message cropped up. I
tried booting from system rescue cd then switching into a bash shell on
my / partition but lost my DNS so I couldn't (re) install the nouveau
drivers (didn't want to touch the nvidia ones again). I did try updating
initramfs, in case there was some nvidia stuff hanging around but it
didn't help.
That led to me reinstalling. I copied the Bookworm netinst to my Ventoy
USB stick, but it wouldn't boot so I went back to Bullseye - which
installed but wouldn't bring up a GUI. Booted to recovery mode, brought
up the network and upgraded to Bookworm. That is where I am now - with
the error message appearing after I leave the boot menu.
This is basically clean install - just done in two parts. My laptop had
been running fine since I got it and installed Debian.
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