Re: latest testing update broke my laptop
On 2022-12-16 21:29, Gary Dale wrote:
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.
I couldn't get the Bookworm alpha install to work even when dd'd
directly to a USB stick. However I was able to get to a recovery mode
from the Bullseye install on Ventoy. From there I added the nVidia
drivers and that got me past the error message. I was able to eventually
get to a recovery session from the installation on the laptop. Sddm
simply refused to work while gdm3 only seems to give me a Gnome desktop.
After installing lightdm, I was able to get back to a Plasma desktop.
Along the way, I found that my (Debian/Bookworm) workstation wont read
USB sticks formatted with FAT32! I'm hoping a reboot later will fix that.
Anyway, sddm seems to have some real problems with nVidia drivers. My
laptop on the other hand seems to need them even though non-Bookworm
distros don't.
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