Unfortunately I am no longer able to boot to solus on the lts (flashing cursor) or current kernel (black screen). This occurred after a full eopkg upgrade. I have a live usb, and have chrooted into my installation to diagnose, but have been unsuccessful. I can't find any broken packages, I tried reinstalling any likely candidates (lightdm, drivers, kernel, etc).
Booting to the linux-current kernel shows a black screen only, and linux-lts shows a flashing cursor. I cannot get to a terminal.
The last entry in journalctl was yesterday and showed many lightdm errors, like so:
Nov 10 00:21:45 gandalf systemd[1]: Starting Display Manager...
Nov 10 00:21:45 gandalf systemd[1]: Stopped Display Manager.
Nov 10 00:21:45 gandalf systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 146.
Nov 10 00:21:45 gandalf systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 10 00:21:45 gandalf systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Nov 10 00:21:42 gandalf systemd[1]: Started Display Manager.
Nov 10 00:21:42 gandalf systemd[1]: Starting Display Manager...
My tests today did not add anything to journalctl... Perhaps I need to wait longer than a few minutes.
I'm on an old 2013 chromebook pixel laptop, intel integrated graphics, nothing particularly special. Been running solus with no real issues for a few years and I really like it.
One possible problem is that I'm working in a remote area and have poor satellite internet. I downloaded the updates over several days of satellite passes (we don't get 24 hour coverage on the system that gets useable internet speed) and maybe there were some corrupted packages due to that, but I don't know how to find out if that happened. eopkg check shows only OK packages.
I'm hoping to rescue this installation. I could start over with a fresh install but that won't be convenient to set up until I can get somewhere with better internet...
Nathan
