On 11/28/2017 10:26 PM, niya via arch-general wrote: > hi everyone > > i have a intel atom netbook that i have arch installed on and have > been using it for the last couple of years without any issues, > after doing a pacman -Syu recently when i reboot it gets through boot > up to the point of setting up the desktop and then crashes with 2 > thirds of the screen from left to right fill with a random rows of > dots on a black background and the last third has my desktop with an > exit icon at the bottom, > i went through the process of downgrading the kernel and got it to > boot normally again > i thought that because it was a 32 bit computer the problem was to do > with arch no longer supporting the i686 architecture > so i migrated the laptop to Arch Linux 32, everything went smoothly , > after the migration i rebooted the laptop and i was back with the > same problem. > i chrooted into the laptop with a live usb stick and retrieved a > portion of the journal > here,s the log. error-report > <http://codepad.org/mtWYqv2N> > my Desktop Environment is lxde > if more of the logs are needed please let me know > > i would be thankful for any pointers to fixing the problem > > shadrock > > my guess would be more 4.13 problems like this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1498725 you were probably right to downgrade. you might try that again. good luck.