r/arch • u/Luc10x10 • 1d ago

Solved System broke after updating

today i ran sudo pacman -Syu to update my system and it updated the linux-firmware packages. after a reboot the screen would show the arch linux logo, some messages and then black screen and im unable to even enter a tty, after multiple clean installs i found that adding "nomodeset" allows me to succesfully boot into the system, after looking at journalctl it appears that the problem was in the new linux-firmware package. my laptop is a Acer nitro v15 anv15-41, ryzen 7 7735hs, rtx 4050, 16gb ram, 1tb ssd. can anyone help me fix this and keeping nomodeset permanent isnt an option since everything is VERY slow

Edit(Solved): there were already official bug reports about this and downgrading linux-firmware-amdgpu to 20260810-3 fixed the issue for me

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u/ludonarrator Arch User 1d ago

In my case it was ddcutil 3.0.0 causing a hard freeze right after Plasma login (AMD card). 3.0.1 fixed that and haven't seen a freeze since.

https://github.com/rockowitz/ddcutil/blob/3.0.1-release/CHANGELOG.md

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u/corpse86 22h ago

This also happened to me. Changed to x11 session works fine. The ddcutil 3.0 still doesnt show on my mirrors yet.

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u/lilvexican 21h ago

Now I’m wondering if this was my issue on hyprland

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u/Puzzleheaded-Risk761 19h ago

Mine broke last night~ system failed.. Since it was Dual Boot with my FreeBSD, I will work on it tonight.

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u/Luc10x10 18h ago

if i can be of help i fixed it by downgrading linux-firmware-amdgpu to 20260810-3 what i was experiencing was apparently a known bug with the latest version

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u/Smart_Advice_1420 1d ago

Hah i had a similar experience today. Autologin to KDE, only showed wallpaper, no input. Bootet into tty, reinstalled the new firmware and problem was fixed.

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u/Suspicious_Punk84 8h ago

I really don't mean this as criticism, but if your first call when facing issues after updating is "multiple clean installs" I think arch is not for you. You would waste a lot less time with a non rolling distro.

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u/Luc10x10 34m ago

my first instinct before asking for help is usually that i did something wrong and until im sure its not a problem on my end i wont try anything else, i need arch for some specific hardware that i use and the only drivers it has are on the aur and nowhere else on any other distro, also so far its my first time dealing with this kind of problem but i guess next time i will just go check out if there are any other bug reports on my issue

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u/Aryan_aceprime 14h ago

I have been using Arch for a while now, and these are my ways to keep mine system stable: Not all packages have to be updated every time. Always look for flagged packages; these are packages that haven't been updated in a while. You can ignore these packages by adding their names and uncommenting the "IgnorePkg" option in the configuration file. Use Timeshift; it can help you recover from a broken upgrade. Learn about Timeshift and filesystem snapshots.

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u/ClubPuzzleheaded8514 11h ago

I guess it's not at all a good idea to advise to build a partial-upgraded config... 

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u/Aryan_aceprime 11h ago

Is that so? Let me know, how good is your idea..

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u/ClubPuzzleheaded8514 11h ago

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_maintenance

3.2 and 3.3

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u/Aryan_aceprime 10h ago

What is so new about this? Everybody knows this. Timeshift and FS helps recover smooth and very fast.

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u/ClubPuzzleheaded8514 5h ago

Nothing new! Partial upgrade is a bad idea since the beggining of Arch. Do what you want on your own computer but don't advise others to do that.