This is the thing: yesterday 29-08-2025 appears a new update for manjaro (198 packets to be update). After updating it as usual it boot to a black screen after grub menu. Totally black screen, no ttf, nothing. I just recovered the system using a previous snapshot.
Then I tried various updates disabling some packages each time, but nothing works, by example disabling all packages that seems related to nvidia (I have an nvidia) or packages related to a new kernel. One of the times I didn’t get a black screen but an error saying that SMB can’t start (something strange, as I was just updating packages, no installing new ones).
If its useful, I’m using wayland, I don’t know if this is related with the black screen situation. So weird.
By now I will leave it un-updated, as I tried different packages updates and all resulted in the same situation or similar one (still I can try to update only software packages no related to the system, like libreoffice or so). So I will wait some months to try to update again, to see if the thing that causes this black screen is not anymore.
It’s probably the video drivers. Did you try the open source ones and/or X session? Cannot help more since i do not have nvidia and do not use wayland.
I had the same thing happen to Me . I installed the latest update and after the next reboot I was greeted by a black screen . I had the latest nvidia drivers installed before the update .
One thing I noticed while I watched the updates being installed is that it said " NVIDIA drivers are current , reinstalling "
I suspect that the drivers did not install properly thus the black screen
I had to completely reinstall my whole system from scratch in order to recover .
Hello again, trying to solve it I broke the system so I installed again, but this time I keep on X11. Everything works as expected, I updated everything with no strange behavior, so I suppose it must be related to wayland in some way. Anyway, thank you for trying to help me.
EDIT: I tried wayland again, and it works normally.
Hi! I also had this problem. I have a new machine with a NVIDIA and this was the first update on it. To solve the problem:
change to another TTY (ex.: ctrl+alt+F3)
login as root (so you don’t have to use sudo)
install linux66 and linux66-nvidia-open (pacman -S linux66 nvidia-open)
reboot and press esc to get to the grub menu, then select linux 6.6.
you can use your system with this kernel until the problem is fixed.
As @philm as said, the package linux612-nvidia-open is now rebuilt and, instead of installing linux66 you can install this package directly and reboot (I haven’t tried it yet).
EDIT: just installed linux612-nvidia-open and all is working as expected.
