failed to start light.service, boot not possible, laptop stuck when reboot after update

[hunzel]

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Summary

After my holiday I did the latest sync yesterday and rebootet afterwards, now it won't come up and I got the following error message on my old laptop:

[FAILED] Failed to start light.service - Light Display Manager.

What would be the best thing to fix this?

Thanks in advance!

Steps to reproduce

1. Go on holiday for 4 weeks
2. boot up old Laptop
3. update System via terminal: sudo eopkg up
4. reboot after succesfull update
5. Stuck with error message: [FAILED] Failed to start light.service - Light Display Manager.

Expected result

Laptop should start normally.

Actual result

Error Message: [FAILED] Failed to start light.service - Light Display Manager.

Environment

• [ ] Is system up to date?

Repo

Shannon (stable)

Desktop Environment

Budgie

System details

I cannot access the system right now. It gets stuck at bootup at the above mentioned error message.

Other comments

No response

[hunzel]

In the forum was at least one other user (user123), that had the same issue, he/she responded to my message: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/10848-sync-updates-for-week-33-2024/28

[Staudey]

What GPU do you have? NVIDIA?

Can you reach TTY3 (by pressing CTRL+ALT+F3)? If you can, try sudo eopkg up again, and sudo usysconf run -f, then reboot. Maybe check uname -a too and see if it's the current kernel version (should be 6.9.12-297, unless you switched to the LTS kernel)

[hunzel]

Hi @Staudey,

AMD GPU.. A9 7th gen, R2/R3/R4/R5 something.

I just tried and was able to get into TTY3. sudo eopkg up didn't have any packages to update. sudo usysconf run -f however did, after reboot the laptop came up completely normal. uname -a told me it was using 6.9.12-297.current.

So case closed, thanks a lot @Staudey !