Hello, In the Message; Subject : Re: sddm stays black after recent TW update Message-ID : <202310070741.38290.michael@actrix.gen.nz> Date & Time: Sat, 7 Oct 2023 07:41:38 +1300 [MH] == Michael Hamilton <michael@actrix.gen.nz> has written: [...] MH> Sure enough, my /boot/grub2/grub.cfg was setting root to MH> /dev/sda2. I tracked that back to /etc/default/grub where at MH> some time in the past I had set MH> GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true MH> I commented that out, used yast to update the bootloader and all has been MH> well since. [...] In my case, the size of grub.cfg was larger than ever (10799), and I was also concerned about the presence of the following entry, which I had never seen before. ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_tuned ### [...] ### END /etc/grub.d/00_tuned ### So I ran # dracut --force $(uname -r) && update-bootloader then rebooted. The resulting; grub.cfg : 9340 and the diff. As you can see, the /etc/grub.d/00_tuned entry was added in the update on October 3 (JST), and the root was also changed by itself as well as Michael ..... (_ _? --- grub.cfg.orig 2023-10-07 12:50:25.605572421 +0900 +++ grub.cfg 2023-10-07 13:04:17.726885701 +0900 @@ -79,9 +79,9 @@ else insmod part_gpt insmod btrfs -set root='hd1,gpt3' +set root='hd0,gpt3' if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then - search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd1,gpt3 --hint-efi=hd1,gpt3 --hint-baremetal=ahci1,gpt3 e6e9f642-b848-4a6c-8720-7c4971e3e5d0 + search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,gpt3 --hint-efi=hd0,gpt3 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt3 e6e9f642-b848-4a6c-8720-7c4971e3e5d0 else search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root e6e9f642-b848-4a6c-8720-7c4971e3e5d0 fi @@ -109,9 +109,9 @@ insmod part_gpt insmod btrfs -set root='hd1,gpt3' +set root='hd0,gpt3' if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then - search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd1,gpt3 --hint-efi=hd1,gpt3 --hint-baremetal=ahci1,gpt3 e6e9f642-b848-4a6c-8720-7c4971e3e5d0 + search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,gpt3 --hint-efi=hd0,gpt3 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt3 e6e9f642-b848-4a6c-8720-7c4971e3e5d0 else search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root e6e9f642-b848-4a6c-8720-7c4971e3e5d0 fi @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ ### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_tuned ### -set tuned_params="sysrq_always_enabled noautogroup transparent_hugepage=always nmi_watchdog=0 x2apic_phys rcu_nocbs=all rcutree.kthread_prio=50 rcutree.use_softirq=0 rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads=1 rcupdate.rcu_expedited=1 rcutree.blimit=8 rcutree.qlowmark=33 rcutree.qhimark=999 rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs=0 rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs=1 rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs=33 rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay=10 rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay=4 rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay=3333 swiotlb=8192 iommu=noagp,nofullflush,memaper=3,merge amd_iommu=pgtbl_v2 intel-ishtp.ishtp_use_dma=1 ioatdma.ioat_pending_level=4 ioatdma.completion_timeout=999 ioatdma.idle_timeout=10000 idxd.sva=1 idxd.tc_override=1 pcie_ports=native pci=noaer,ecrc=on,ioapicreroute,assign-busses,check_enable_amd_mmconf,realloc,pcie_bus_perf processor.ignore_ppc=1 processor.ignore_tpc=1 skew_tick=1 intel_idle.use_acpi=1 scsi_mod.scan=async nvme.use_threaded_interrupts=1 nvme.use_cmb_sqes=1 nvme.io_queue_depth=128 nvme.max_host_mem! _size_mb=3072 nvme.poll_queues=8 nvme.write_queues=4 nvme.sgl_threshold=65536 nvme_core.streams=1 nvme_core.admin_timeout=900 nvme_core.io_timeout=4294967295 nvme_core.shutdown_timeout=60 intremap=nosid,no_x2apic_optout pci=big_root_window,skip_isa_align mem_encrypt=off mce=recovery iomem=relaxed acpi_enforce_resources=lax nopti nospectre_v1 nospectre_v2 spectre_v2_user=off tsx_async_abort=off l1tf=off kvm-intel.vmentry_l1d_flush=cond mds=off drm_kms_helper.poll=0 amd_pmf.force_load=1" +set tuned_params="" set tuned_initrd="" ### END /etc/grub.d/00_tuned ### @@ -161,9 +161,9 @@ insmod gzio insmod part_gpt insmod btrfs - set root='hd1,gpt3' + set root='hd0,gpt3' if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then - search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd1,gpt3 --hint-efi=hd1,gpt3 --hint-baremetal=ahci1,gpt3 e6e9f642-b848-4a6c-8720-7c4971e3e5d0 + search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,gpt3 --hint-efi=hd0,gpt3 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt3 e6e9f642-b848-4a6c-8720-7c4971e3e5d0 else search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root e6e9f642-b848-4a6c-8720-7c4971e3e5d0 fi @@ -179,9 +179,9 @@ insmod gzio Regards. --- ┏━━┓彡 野宮 賢 mail-to: nomiya @ lake.dti.ne.jp ┃\/彡 ┗━━┛ "Companies have come to view generative AI as a kind of monster that must be fed at all costs―even if it isn’t always clear what exactly that data is needed for or what those future AI systems might end up doing." -- Generative AI Is Making Companies Even More Thirsty for Your Data --