Hello,

Finally built a new rig, and wanted to ditch Windows.

Got KDE neon up and running, booted into it, got my browser mostly back to how I like it, ran an update for my video card. I didn’t notice the screen blackout and come back like it normally would for a video update, but I don’t think that has anything to do with my current issue. I tried to restart to make sure it was running, and the update part of discover showed up and said I had a couple hundred updates to get, no big surprise there, since it is a fresh install.

Then it hung on fetching updates, and while I could browse my list of programs, I couldn’t do anything else. So I did a hard shut down and powered back up.

It sticks on some kennel warnings and won’t go any further.

Obviously I can’t really do anything from there that I know of.

I also can’t even get it to boot with the install media. That just sticks on a black screen. I can tell the monitor is actually showing black, as it doesn’t give the “NO SIGNAL” warning. I have no idea what to do from here since I can’t get it to react to anything, much less know how to fix anything if I could get in.

As for what the warnings say, there are 6 or so lines saying the same thing: problem blacklisting hash (-13), and one more that says nvme2: failed to set APST feature (2)

I haven’t put anything on nvme2 yet, I haven’t even formatted it yet, just the primary drive (nvme0). So I’m not sure what could possibly be wrong with it yet.

  • @vaselined
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    31 year ago

    Go to uefi. Change boot order to install media. Boot from it. And do a complete fresh install.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      11 year ago

      This is annoying, but better now than after I get settled in.

      Do you know anything I might’ve done to cause this? I don’t wanna do whatever it was again.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        when you reinstall, try to use btrfs (idk if kde neon support it in the installer)

        then use timeshift to do a snapshot every day and a snapshot before upgrade. but set it up so that there are not more than ~10 snapshots.

        next time something goes wrong you can restore the last snapshot.

        Some distros also set it so you have previous snapshots as boot entries in grub.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          1 year ago

          It was an option, but I was planning on trying a couple different distros, and I know ext4 has better compatibility, and didn’t want to format the whole drive back and forth, or have multiple systems at once time on different partitions. Once I settle permanently if it is an option I’ve heard some say it’s better, but haven’t looked into it yet.

          Edit: just realized this sounds a little consider to the other comment.

          What I mean to say is at least it was before I installed any programs and got to try it out. Based on another comment, I now know this is a rolling release which is not something I’m interested in anyway.