Hi there,

Unfortunately the latest major update has resulted in one of my notebooks not booting. It gets as far as

STONEY not supported in kfd

and then hangs.

I have recovered the data so that it not a problem, just wondering if you recommend I try and repair the installation or do a reinstall.

Thanks
LL

If an update is the cause of this, reinstalling won't solve it, you will get the same update on that install.

What was updated? Pacman log needed from that day/update. How far does it boot before you see this message? You get to the bootloader menu? Then remove quiet and systemd...=0 set to 1, that way it will be visible if the kernel loads, what systemd shows. Or do you get to the login manager, and see the message after sddm?
Was the mirror up to date? Tried to make sure the update was complete?
For the above, most can be done by chrooting

If it was a kernel update (and you have the radeon card I suspect), adding amdgpu.dc=0 to the kernel boot line might help.
What non-repo packages do you have, check with pacman -Qm (while chrooted)? If that lists any kernel module, make sure to remove.
https://kaosx.us/docs/

    5 days later

    demm Thanks Demm

    Chrooting in and doing a full system update fixed the problem.

    Tried to make sure the update was complete?

    Yes, from what I could tell the previous major updated completed properly, but there must have been something in that update my system didn't like.

    Was the mirror up to date?

    Yes. Can this be automated?

    If it was a kernel update (and you have the radeon card I suspect), adding amdgpu.dc=0 to the kernel boot line

    Yes, it's an AMD/Radeon system, but that parameter didn't fix it.

    Regards

    LL

      For mirrors not being synced, there are 3 options to check, either always update with upd, start Octopi then update from within Octopi (mirror-check always runs on start-up and you can click the mirror check icon), or run mirror-check prior to updating.