I'm using Artix Linux with runit on my machine, and after I installed a new WiFi/Bluetooth combo card in my system via PCIe. I started having a random freeze during startup. It happens 1/3 times or so. The system hangs on a black scree with a white cursor in the top left corner. I tried switching to another tty to see if I can unfreeze it. But as soon as I switch, I can see the login prompt for a second, and then it goes back to black very quickly.
I'm not sure if it's related to the PCIe card, I just thought it's worth mentioning because the problem started happening just after I installed it.
My setup looks like this:
$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 447,1G 0 disk (My SSD)
├─sda1 8:1 0 300M 0 part /boot/efi
├─sda2 8:2 0 431,8G 0 part
│ └─luks-c1dec924-cacc-463a-b0b1-da15fd3791ad 254:0 0 431,8G 0 crypt / (5.11.1-artix1-1)
└─sda3 8:3 0 15G 0 part
└─luks-c86d3e5b-d4de-4e44-95b7-aae30d93e57c 254:1 0 15G 0 crypt [SWAP]
sdb 8:16 0 931,5G 0 disk (My HDD)
├─sdb1 8:17 0 16M 0 part (Windows UEFI partition)
├─sdb2 8:18 0 292,5G 0 part (Windows 10)
├─sdb3 8:19 0 499M 0 part
├─sdb4 8:20 0 185,9G 0 part (NTFS backup partition)
└─sdb5 8:21 0 452,6G 0 part (ext4 backup partition)
└─luks-3e1e88b2-1dce-4602-88c4-6c0e6bc0afe5 254:2 0 452,6G 0 crypt /mnt/214cd7fa-1ddb-43d9-879b-f78152af9629
I took a look at the log files and found the following log repeating lots of time in
/var/log/auth.log
:
Mar 3 23:43:23 vibranium elogind: elogind is already running as PID 1305
Mar 3 23:43:24 vibranium elogind: elogind is already running as PID 1305
Mar 3 23:43:25 vibranium elogind: elogind is already running as PID 1305
Mar 3 23:43:26 vibranium elogind: elogind is already running as PID 1305
Mar 3 23:43:27 vibranium elogind: elogind is already running as PID 1305
Mar 3 23:43:28 vibranium elogind: elogind is already running as PID 1305
Mar 3 23:43:29 vibranium elogind: elogind is already running as PID 1305
Mar 3 23:43:30 vibranium elogind: elogind is already running as PID 1305
This is the only thing that seemed wrong in the logs. Everything else seems good.
Asked by Abdelhakim AKODADI
(83 rep)
Mar 4, 2021, 10:50 PM
Last activity: Mar 8, 2021, 11:55 AM
Last activity: Mar 8, 2021, 11:55 AM