I am pretty sure its not hardware related, as I can run a live iso, (and am posting now from it ) and can mount and view all drives and contents.
I am using ssd as sda boot. I have 175g free space on /
I have not performed updates recently, it has been booting normally for a the past few days. now it boots to a green screen with 3 square dots. I press escape to see the console.
I cannot login to where it says to enter root password, it locks up at that point, will not accept any keystrokes, tried ctrl-d and waiting a few minutes- nothing, rebooted and tried my root password, and waiting, nothing.
What you describe sounds like the plymouth screen.
At the grub prompt, hit ‘e’. That should put you into an edit mode.
Scroll down to the line beginning “linux” (or, maybe, “linuxefi”).
In that line, delete the “splash=silent” part. Then CTRL-X to continue booting.
That should boot without the plymouth splash screen. I don’t know if it will get you to the desktop, but it is worth trying. And maybe look at messages on screen during boot. The last few lines of message might be relevant to the problem.
Thank you for the help!
Oddly, it booted after that, though I can not think of a reason why…
Hopefully it continues I will know tomorrow.
Is there a way to save that config (without the boot quiet) so I can always see the boot process…?
Looks like it was doing a filesystem check maybe at last successful boot, just prior to shutdown?
last sucessful boot (end of log) (no logs fro last 3 partial boots)
Mar 01 00:00:17 localhost systemd[1]: Started Rotate log files.
Mar 01 00:00:17 localhost btrfs-scrub.sh[28606]: Running scrub on /
Mar 01 00:00:17 localhost dbus-daemon[1019]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.opensuse.Snapper'
Mar 01 00:01:33 localhost btrfs-scrub.sh[28606]: scrub device /dev/sda3 (id 1) done
Mar 01 00:01:33 localhost btrfs-scrub.sh[28606]: scrub started at Thu Mar 1 00:00:17 2018 and finished after 00:01:16
Mar 01 00:01:33 localhost btrfs-scrub.sh[28606]: total bytes scrubbed: 35.25GiB with 0 errors
Mar 01 00:01:33 localhost systemd[1]: Started Scrub btrfs filesystem, verify block checksums.
Mar 01 00:01:33 localhost systemd[1]: Starting Balance block groups on a btrfs filesystem...
Mar 01 00:01:33 localhost btrfs-balance.sh[28664]: Before balance of /
Mar 01 00:01:33 localhost btrfs-balance.sh[28664]: Data, single: total=34.01GiB, used=32.43GiB
Mar 01 00:01:33 localhost btrfs-balance.sh[28664]: System, single: total=64.00MiB, used=16.00KiB
Mar 01 00:01:33 localhost btrfs-balance.sh[28664]: Metadata, single: total=4.01GiB, used=2.81GiB
Mar 01 00:01:33 localhost btrfs-balance.sh[28664]: GlobalReserve, single: total=131.34MiB, used=0.00B
Mar 01 00:01:33 localhost btrfs-balance.sh[28664]: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
Mar 01 00:01:33 localhost btrfs-balance.sh[28664]: /dev/sda3 215G 38G 176G 18% /
Mar 01 00:01:33 localhost btrfs-balance.sh[28664]: Done, had to relocate 0 out of 42 chunks
Mar 01 00:01:33 localhost btrfs-balance.sh[28664]: Dumping filters: flags 0x1, state 0x0, force is off
Mar 01 00:01:33 localhost btrfs-balance.sh[28664]: DATA (flags 0x2): balancing, usage=1
Mar 01 00:01:33 localhost btrfs-balance.sh[28664]: Done, had to relocate 0 out of 42 chunks
Mar 01 00:01:33 localhost btrfs-balance.sh[28664]: Dumping filters: flags 0x1, state 0x0, force is off
Mar 01 00:01:33 localhost btrfs-balance.sh[28664]: DATA (flags 0x2): balancing, usage=5
Mar 01 00:01:33 localhost btrfs-balance.sh[28664]: Done, had to relocate 0 out of 42 chunks
Mar 01 00:01:34 localhost kernel: BTRFS info (device sda3): relocating block group 39917191168 flags data
Mar 01 00:01:34 localhost kernel: BTRFS info (device sda3): found 2 extents
Mar 01 00:05:38 localhost smartd[1009]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], SMART Usage Attribute: 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel changed from 75 to 74
Mar 01 00:31:01 localhost polkitd[1106]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-session:1 (system bus name :1.30, object path /org/kde/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent,
Mar 01 00:31:03 localhost systemd-logind[1128]: System is powering down.
Mar 01 00:31:03 localhost systemd[1]: Stopping Session 2 of user root.
Mar 01 00:31:03 localhost systemd[1]: Removed slice system-systemd\x2dhibernate\x2dresume.slice.
Mar 01 00:31:03 localhost systemd[1]: Stopped target Graphical Interface.
Mar 01 00:31:03 localhost systemd[1]: Stopping User Manager for UID 1000...
You can also indicate that DE is used and also the login manager
Computer hardware
If using the Proprietary Drivers
If it happened after an update etc.
You can also indicate that DE is used and also the login manager
Computer hardware
If using the Proprietary Drivers
If it happened after an update etc.
Sorry- my setup is all stock.
The only changes are multimedia codecs from packman.
Desktop: KDE
No proprietary drivers
no updates in last 3-4 boots (I am intentionally not updating as often),
hardware is amd64 8350/ on a asrock motherboard/ 16gb ram & r7-250 redeon video. 500gb samsung evo.for primary drive.
Perhaps BTFRS maintenance/ balance kicked in to do some work. There is an issue on bugzilla that BTRFS maintenance renders your system unresponsive. I haven’t experienced it anymore in this extend, but had quite a similar issue in the past. The issue was/ is related to the snapshots.
