Another boot issue

so im just screwed then?

I don’t know what your problem is, but usually what helps is kind of self diagnosing.
So your headline is: can’t boot.
This is a general description. Do you know what is broken? Is it grub? Is it light dm?
What do you see while its booting.
If you add all this information in the beginning you are likely to mget more help, because your Problem is a specific and b people don’t have to walk you thorugh troubleshooting.

What you can do is trying to chroot your system from a live USB, try to update it maybe that will magically fix a random issue you had that broke the system.

from live USB, open terminal and chroot the system

manjaro-chroot -a

select your system following on screen instructions, it should automatically chroot it.


//EDIT: the above step can be avoided if you can access a TTY from your broken system, press ALT + F3 and see if it gets you to a TTY. If you can just follow the next steps, if you can’t, do the above step first from a Live Manjaro USB. If you need to chroot, then once you get to the chrooted terminal, you don’t need to use sudo for the commands as you would be root already.


From here the terminal should switch to a root terminal (color should change to red too). What you now type in the terminal is as if you were typing from your real system terminal, so try to update the system now

sudo pacman-mirrors -c Global && sudo pacman -Syyu

You can also then make sure you have latest kernel installed

sudo mhwd-kernel -i linux514

From the live USB you can go to the forum to report any terminal output from the actions you make so we can see the error messages if any.

I can get through grub just fine. it’s after I chose to boot to Linux instead of windows that I get stuck on this screen
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and I’ve tried multiple kernels and none of them work.

I was able to get into TTY
and I ran those commands I didn’t see any errors

am I correct in assuming these commands update all the stuff I downloaded from pacman?

well it took like 12 minutes to update everything then download the latest kernel but unfortunately, I am still unable to get past this screen

Maybe try from a TTY to read the various logs available to find errors that may help fixing the issue.

so then im going to need to find my live USB drive and boot to it instead of doing

because im going to need to copy and paste the output here right?

It is preferable to access directly the system, but it should work too from the chrooted system you should issue the same commands from there.

Also I remember you said you had multiple Manjaro installation, make sure you chroot into the one with issue (to do what I suggested before or to grab the logs).

//EDIT: also your BIOS was very outdated, if you can’t find a solution, you can try to update it, but you will then probably need to restore GRUB from the live USB because it will probably erase the boot selection and from what I have seen motherboard can’t automatically find the Manjaro boot loader by itself (when it always finds a Windows one), so before updating BIOS make sure you have a working live USB, to then restore GRUB and be able to boot to your system again.

//EDIT2: in my opinion, updating the BIOS would be the first thing to do but this is something you decide, understanding the implication of updating the BIOS. But my bet it is the fix to your issue.

inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width

here is the output.

[manjaro /]# inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width
12System:
  12Kernel 5.13.19-2-MANJARO x86_64 12bits 64 12compiler gcc 12v 11.1.0
  12parameters BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-x86_64 lang=en_US keytable=us tz=UTC
  misobasedir=manjaro misolabel=MANJARO_XFCE_2116 quiet systemd.show_status=1
  apparmor=1 security=apparmor driver=free nouveau.modeset=1 i915.modeset=1
  radeon.modeset=1
  12Desktop Xfce 4.16.0 12tk Gtk 3.24.29 12info xfce4-panel 12wm xfwm 4.16.1 12dm N/A
  12Distro Manjaro Linux 12base Arch Linux
12Machine:
  12Type Desktop 12Mobo ASUSTeK 12model TUF GAMING X570-PLUS 12v Rev X.0x
  12serial <filter> 12UEFI American Megatrends 12v 2607 12date 08/14/2020
12Battery:
  12Message No system battery data found. Is one present?
12Memory:
  12RAM 12total 62.71 GiB 12used 2.55 GiB (4.1%)
  12Array-1 12capacity 128 GiB 12slots 4 12EC None 12max-module-size 32 GiB 12note est.
  12Device-1 DIMM_A1 12size 16 GiB 12speed 2400 MT/s 12type DDR4
  12detail synchronous unbuffered (unregistered) 12bus-width 64 bits 12total 64 bits
  12manufacturer Patriot 12part-no 2400 C16 Series 12serial N/A
  12Device-2 DIMM_A2 12size 16 GiB 12speed 2400 MT/s 12type DDR4
  12detail synchronous unbuffered (unregistered) 12bus-width 64 bits 12total 64 bits
  12manufacturer Patriot 12part-no 2400 C16 Series 12serial N/A
  12Device-3 DIMM_B1 12size 16 GiB 12speed 2400 MT/s 12type DDR4
  12detail synchronous unbuffered (unregistered) 12bus-width 64 bits 12total 64 bits
  12manufacturer Patriot 12part-no 2400 C16 Series 12serial N/A
  12Device-4 DIMM_B2 12size 16 GiB 12speed 2400 MT/s 12type DDR4
  12detail synchronous unbuffered (unregistered) 12bus-width 64 bits 12total 64 bits
  12manufacturer Patriot 12part-no 2400 C16 Series 12serial N/A
12CPU:
  12Info 12-Core 12model AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12socket AM4 12bits 64 12type MT MCP
  12arch Zen 2 12family 17 (23) 12model-id 71 (113) 12stepping 0 12microcode 8701021
  12cache 12L1 768 KiB 12L2 6 MiB 12L3 64 MiB 12bogomips 192083
  12Speed 4008 MHz 12min/max 2200/4000 MHz 12base/boost 4000/4650 12boost enabled
  12volts 1.1 V 12ext-clock 100 MHz 12Core speeds (MHz) 121 4008 122 4000 123 4005 124 3998
  125 3984 126 3985 127 3986 128 4022 129 3993 1210 3996 1211 4011 1212 4012 1213 4000 1214 4009
  1215 4005 1216 3995 1217 4020 1218 3985 1219 3993 1220 4010 1221 4000 1222 4003 1223 3981
  1224 4013
  12Flags 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2
  bpext cat_l3 cdp_l3 clflush clflushopt clwb clzero cmov cmp_legacy
  constant_tsc cpb cpuid cqm cqm_llc cqm_mbm_local cqm_mbm_total cqm_occup_llc
  cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de decodeassists extapic extd_apicid f16c flushbyasid
  fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibpb ibs irperf lahf_lm lbrv lm
  mba mca mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor movbe msr mtrr mwaitx nonstop_tsc
  nopl npt nrip_save nx osvw overflow_recov pae pat pausefilter pclmulqdq
  pdpe1gb perfctr_core perfctr_llc perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pni popcnt pse
  pse36 rdpid rdpru rdrand rdseed rdt_a rdtscp rep_good sep sev sev_es sha_ni
  skinit smap smca sme smep ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 stibp
  succor svm svm_lock syscall tce topoext tsc tsc_scale umip v_spec_ctrl
  v_vmsave_vmload vgif vmcb_clean vme vmmcall wbnoinvd wdt xgetbv1 xsave
  xsavec xsaveerptr xsaveopt xsaves
  12Vulnerabilities 12Type itlb_multihit 12status Not affected
  12Type l1tf 12status Not affected
  12Type mds 12status Not affected
  12Type meltdown 12status Not affected
  12Type spec_store_bypass
  12mitigation Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
  12Type spectre_v1
  12mitigation usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  12Type spectre_v2 12mitigation Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP:
  conditional, RSB filling
  12Type srbds 12status Not affected
  12Type tsx_async_abort 12status Not affected
12Graphics:
  12Device-1 NVIDIA GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB] 12vendor ASUSTeK 12driver nouveau
  12v kernel 12bus-ID 0a:00.0 12chip-ID 10de:1c03 12class-ID 0300
  12Display 12server X.Org 1.20.13 12compositor xfwm4 12v 4.16.1 12driver 12loaded nouveau
  12unloaded modesetting 12alternate fbdev,nv,vesa 12display-ID :0.0 12screens 1
  12Screen-1 0 12s-res 6400x1080 12s-dpi 96 12s-size 1693x285mm (66.7x11.2")
  12s-diag 1717mm (67.6")
  12Monitor-1 DP-2 12res 1920x1080 12hz 60 12dpi 102 12size 480x270mm (18.9x10.6")
  12diag 551mm (21.7")
  12Monitor-2 HDMI-1 12res 1920x1080 12dpi 81 12size 600x330mm (23.6x13.0")
  12diag 685mm (27")
  12Monitor-3 HDMI-2 12res 2560x1080 12hz 60 12dpi 81 12size 798x334mm (31.4x13.1")
  12diag 865mm (34.1")
  12OpenGL 12renderer NV136 12v 4.3 Mesa 21.2.3 12direct render Yes
12Audio:
  12Device-1 NVIDIA GP106 High Definition Audio 12vendor ASUSTeK
  12driver snd_hda_intel 12v kernel 12bus-ID 0a:00.1 12chip-ID 10de:10f1 12class-ID 0403
  12Device-2 AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio 12vendor ASUSTeK 12driver snd_hda_intel
  12v kernel 12bus-ID 0c:00.4 12chip-ID 1022:1487 12class-ID 0403
  12Device-3 C-Media Blue Snowball 12type USB
  12driver hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid 12bus-ID 5-1:2 12chip-ID 0d8c:0005
  12class-ID 0300 12serial <filter>
  12Sound Server-1 ALSA 12v k5.13.19-2-MANJARO 12running yes
  12Sound Server-2 JACK 12v 1.9.19 12running no
  12Sound Server-3 PulseAudio 12v 15.0 12running yes
  12Sound Server-4 PipeWire 12v 0.3.38 12running no
12Network:
  12Device-1 Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 12driver r8169
  12v kernel 12port e000 12bus-ID 04:00.0 12chip-ID 10ec:8161 12class-ID 0200
  12IF enp4s0 12state down 12mac <filter>
  12Device-2 Qualcomm Atheros AR93xx Wireless Network Adapter 12driver ath9k
  12v kernel 12bus-ID 05:00.0 12chip-ID 168c:0030 12class-ID 0280
  12IF wlp5s0 12state down 12mac <filter>
  12Device-3 Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
  12vendor ASUSTeK 12driver r8169 12v kernel 12port d000 12bus-ID 06:00.0
  12chip-ID 10ec:8168 12class-ID 0200
  12IF enp6s0 12state up 12speed 1000 Mbps 12duplex full 12mac <filter>
  12IP v4 <filter> 12type dynamic noprefixroute 12scope global 12broadcast <filter>
  12IP v6 <filter> 12type noprefixroute 12scope link
  12WAN IP <filter>
12Bluetooth:
  12Device-1 Broadcom BCM20702A0 Bluetooth 4.0 12type USB 12driver btusb 12v 0.8
  12bus-ID 1-2:2 12chip-ID 0a5c:21e8 12class-ID fe01 12serial <filter>
  12Report rfkill 12ID hci0 12rfk-id 1 12state down 12bt-service N/A 12rfk-block
  12hardware no 12software yes 12address see --recommends
12Logical:
  12Message No logical block device data found.
12RAID:
  12Message No RAID data found.
12Drives:
  12Local Storage 12total 4.56 TiB 12used 38.53 GiB (0.8%)
  12SMART Message Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  12ID-1 /dev/nvme0n1 12maj-min 259:0 12vendor Western Digital
  12model WDS500G2B0C-00PXH0 12size 465.76 GiB 12block-size 12physical 512 B
  12logical 512 B 12speed 31.6 Gb/s 12lanes 4 12type SSD 12serial <filter> 12rev 211070WD
  12temp 32.9 C
  12ID-2 /dev/sda 12maj-min 8:0 12vendor Samsung 12model SSD 850 EVO 500GB
  12size 465.76 GiB 12block-size 12physical 512 B 12logical 512 B 12speed 6.0 Gb/s
  12type SSD 12serial <filter> 12rev 2B6Q
  12ID-3 /dev/sdb 12maj-min 8:16 12vendor Hitachi 12model HUA723020ALA640
  12size 1.82 TiB 12block-size 12physical 512 B 12logical 512 B 12speed 3.0 Gb/s
  12type N/A 12serial <filter> 12rev A870
  12ID-4 /dev/sdc 12maj-min 8:32 12vendor Hitachi 12model HUS724020ALA640
  12size 1.82 TiB 12block-size 12physical 512 B 12logical 512 B 12speed 6.0 Gb/s
  12type N/A 12serial <filter> 12rev NS00
  12ID-5 /dev/sdd 12maj-min 8:48 12type USB 12vendor SanDisk 12model Cruzer Blade
  12size 7.45 GiB 12block-size 12physical 512 B 12logical 512 B 12type N/A
  12serial <filter> 12rev 1.27
  12Message No optical or floppy data found.
12Partition:
  12ID-1 / 12raw-size 465.46 GiB 12size 457.16 GiB (98.22%) 12used 38.52 GiB (8.4%)
  12fs ext4 12block-size 4096 B 12dev /dev/nvme0n1p2 12maj-min 259:2 12label N/A
  12uuid 6160df19-0b44-48f0-967f-d6fa5b49976b
  12ID-2 /boot/efi 12raw-size 300 MiB 12size 299.4 MiB (99.80%) 12used 312 KiB (0.1%)
  12fs vfat 12block-size 512 B 12dev /dev/nvme0n1p1 12maj-min 259:1 12label N/A
  12uuid D258-D9FF
12Swap:
  12Alert No swap data was found.
12Unmounted:
  12ID-1 /dev/sda1 12maj-min 8:1 12size 450 MiB 12fs ntfs 12label Recovery
  12uuid 0E56129E5612869D
  12ID-2 /dev/sda2 12maj-min 8:2 12size 100 MiB 12fs fat (32 bit) 12label N/A
  12uuid DC12-EAC8
  12ID-3 /dev/sda3 12maj-min 8:3 12size 16 MiB 12fs N/A 12label N/A 12uuid N/A
  12ID-4 /dev/sda4 12maj-min 8:4 12size 464.7 GiB 12fs ntfs 12label N/A
  12uuid A4D41B38D41B0C64
  12ID-5 /dev/sda5 12maj-min 8:5 12size 515 MiB 12fs ntfs 12label N/A
  12uuid 34841C27841BEA5E
  12ID-6 /dev/sdb1 12maj-min 8:17 12size 128 MiB 12fs N/A 12label N/A 12uuid N/A
  12ID-7 /dev/sdb2 12maj-min 8:18 12size 1.82 TiB 12fs ntfs 12label 2nd Disk
  12uuid E2D023B1D0238B3D
  12ID-8 /dev/sdc1 12maj-min 8:33 12size 16 MiB 12fs N/A 12label N/A 12uuid N/A
  12ID-9 /dev/sdd1 12maj-min 8:49 12size 2.93 GiB 12fs N/A 12label MANJARO_XFCE_2116
  12uuid 2021-10-17-17-31-08-00
  12ID-10 /dev/sdd2 12maj-min 8:50 12size 4 MiB 12fs N/A 12label MISO_EFI 12uuid 922B-3DAB
12USB:
  12Hub-1 1-0:1 12info Full speed (or root) Hub 12ports 6 12rev 2.0 12speed 480 Mb/s
  12chip-ID 1d6b:0002 12class-ID 0900
  12Device-1 1-2:2 12info Broadcom BCM20702A0 Bluetooth 4.0 12type Bluetooth
  12driver btusb 12interfaces 4 12rev 2.0 12speed 12 Mb/s 12chip-ID 0a5c:21e8
  12class-ID fe01 12serial <filter>
  12Device-2 1-3:3 12info Microsoft Xbox360 Controller 12type <vendor specific>
  12driver xpad 12interfaces 4 12rev 2.0 12speed 12 Mb/s 12power 500mA 12chip-ID 045e:028e
  12class-ID ff00 12serial <filter>
  12Device-3 1-4:4 12info SanDisk Cruzer Blade 12type Mass Storage
  12driver usb-storage 12interfaces 1 12rev 2.0 12speed 480 Mb/s 12power 200mA
  12chip-ID 0781:5567 12class-ID 0806 12serial <filter>
  12Hub-2 2-0:1 12info Full speed (or root) Hub 12ports 4 12rev 3.1 12speed 10 Gb/s
  12chip-ID 1d6b:0003 12class-ID 0900
  12Hub-3 3-0:1 12info Full speed (or root) Hub 12ports 6 12rev 2.0 12speed 480 Mb/s
  12chip-ID 1d6b:0002 12class-ID 0900
  12Device-1 3-6:2 12info ASUSTek AURA LED Controller 12type HID
  12driver hid-generic,usbhid 12interfaces 2 12rev 2.0 12speed 12 Mb/s 12power 16mA
  12chip-ID 0b05:18f3 12class-ID 0300 12serial <filter>
  12Hub-4 4-0:1 12info Full speed (or root) Hub 12ports 4 12rev 3.1 12speed 10 Gb/s
  12chip-ID 1d6b:0003 12class-ID 0900
  12Hub-5 5-0:1 12info Full speed (or root) Hub 12ports 4 12rev 2.0 12speed 480 Mb/s
  12chip-ID 1d6b:0002 12class-ID 0900
  12Device-1 5-1:2 12info C-Media Blue Snowball 12type Audio,HID
  12driver hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid 12interfaces 3 12rev 1.1 12speed 12 Mb/s
  12power 100mA 12chip-ID 0d8c:0005 12class-ID 0300 12serial <filter>
  12Device-2 5-2:3 12info Logitech G402 Gaming Mouse 12type Mouse,HID
  12driver hid-generic,usbhid 12interfaces 2 12rev 2.0 12speed 12 Mb/s 12power 300mA
  12chip-ID 046d:c07e 12class-ID 0300 12serial <filter>
  12Device-3 5-3:4 12info Logitech G710 Gaming Keyboard 12type Keyboard,HID
  12driver hid-generic,usbhid 12interfaces 2 12rev 2.0 12speed 12 Mb/s 12power 400mA
  12chip-ID 046d:c24d 12class-ID 0300
  12Device-4 5-4:5 12info Synaptics 12type <vendor specific> 12driver N/A 12interfaces 1
  12rev 2.0 12speed 12 Mb/s 12power 100mA 12chip-ID 06cb:0082 12class-ID ff00
  12serial <filter>
  12Hub-6 6-0:1 12info Full speed (or root) Hub 12ports 4 12rev 3.1 12speed 10 Gb/s
  12chip-ID 1d6b:0003 12class-ID 0900
12Sensors:
  12System Temperatures 12cpu 44.1 C 12mobo N/A 12gpu nouveau 12temp 33.0 C
  12Fan Speeds (RPM) N/A 12gpu nouveau 12fan 1368
12Info:
  12Processes 434 12Uptime 11m 12wakeups 0 12Init systemd 12v 249 12tool systemctl
  12Compilers 12gcc 11.1.0 12alt 10 12Packages 12pacman 1374 12lib 423 12flatpak 0
  12Client Unknown Client: systemd 12inxi 3.3.08

next one:

journalctl --catalog --priority=3 --boot=-1

the output

[manjaro /]# journalctl --catalog --priority=3 --boot=-1
-- Journal begins at Mon 2021-02-08 15:40:49 MST, ends at Thu 2021-10-28 03:57:55 MDT. --
Oct 28 03:42:03 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: __common_interrupt: 1.55 No irq handler for vector
Oct 28 03:42:03 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: __common_interrupt: 2.55 No irq handler for vector
Oct 28 03:42:03 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: __common_interrupt: 3.55 No irq handler for vector
Oct 28 03:42:03 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: __common_interrupt: 4.55 No irq handler for vector
Oct 28 03:42:03 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: __common_interrupt: 5.55 No irq handler for vector
Oct 28 03:42:03 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: __common_interrupt: 6.55 No irq handler for vector
Oct 28 03:42:03 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: __common_interrupt: 7.55 No irq handler for vector
Oct 28 03:42:03 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: __common_interrupt: 8.55 No irq handler for vector
Oct 28 03:42:03 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: __common_interrupt: 9.55 No irq handler for vector
Oct 28 03:42:03 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: __common_interrupt: 10.55 No irq handler for vector
Oct 28 03:42:03 ManjaroGameingPC systemd-modules-load[412]: Failed to find module 'vfs_monitor'
Oct 28 03:42:04 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: hid-generic 0003:0D8C:0005.0001: No inputs registered, leaving
Oct 28 03:42:04 ManjaroGameingPC systemd[1]: Failed to start Light Display Manager.
-- Subject: A start job for unit lightdm.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://forum.manjaro.org/c/support
-- 
-- A start job for unit lightdm.service has finished with a failure.
-- 
-- The job identifier is 851 and the job result is failed.
Oct 28 03:42:05 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: firmware Patch file not found, tried:
Oct 28 03:42:05 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: 'brcm/BCM20702A1-0a5c-21e8.hcd'
Oct 28 03:42:05 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: 'brcm/BCM-0a5c-21e8.hcd'

is this sufficient? or is there more information you need?

i already updated my BIOS that didn’t fix it

No you didn’t

 Version 4021
2021/08/17 20.44 MBytes

TUF GAMING X570-PLUS BIOS 4021
"1. Update AMD AM4 AGESA V2 PI 1.2.0.3 Patch C
2. Improve system performance"

Your BIOS is currently v 2607 from 08/14/2020 but latest one is v 4021 from 08/17/2021 so you have one year difference from your current to the latest.

when I open Armory Crate in windows to check for BIOS updates I get this

is there a different way to update the BIOS?

I don’t know what is Armory Crate, but for sure I NEVER would update the BIOS/UEFI from a live system, i ALWAYS do it from the BIOS/UEFI itself. Again, check your mother board manual (Updating BIOS section) and the link I provided above to check your BIOS/UEFI downloads.

Apparently you can even, from the BIOS, update from internet directly, have a look.

ok i updated BIOS

[manjaro /]# inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width
12System:
  12Kernel 5.13.19-2-MANJARO x86_64 12bits 64 12compiler gcc 12v 11.1.0
  12parameters BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-x86_64 lang=en_US keytable=us tz=UTC
  misobasedir=manjaro misolabel=MANJARO_XFCE_2116 quiet systemd.show_status=1
  apparmor=1 security=apparmor driver=free nouveau.modeset=1 i915.modeset=1
  radeon.modeset=1
  12Desktop Xfce 4.16.0 12tk Gtk 3.24.29 12info xfce4-panel 12wm xfwm 4.16.1 12dm N/A
  12Distro Manjaro Linux 12base Arch Linux
12Machine:
  12Type Desktop 12Mobo ASUSTeK 12model TUF GAMING X570-PLUS 12v Rev X.0x
  12serial <filter> 12UEFI American Megatrends 12v 4021 12date 08/09/2021
12Battery:
  12Message No system battery data found. Is one present?
12Memory:
  12RAM 12total 62.72 GiB 12used 2.57 GiB (4.1%)
  12Array-1 12capacity 128 GiB 12slots 4 12EC None 12max-module-size 32 GiB 12note est.
  12Device-1 DIMM_A1 12size 16 GiB 12speed 2400 MT/s 12type DDR4
  12detail synchronous unbuffered (unregistered) 12bus-width 64 bits 12total 64 bits
  12manufacturer Patriot 12part-no 2400 C16 Series 12serial N/A
  12Device-2 DIMM_A2 12size 16 GiB 12speed 2400 MT/s 12type DDR4
  12detail synchronous unbuffered (unregistered) 12bus-width 64 bits 12total 64 bits
  12manufacturer Patriot 12part-no 2400 C16 Series 12serial N/A
  12Device-3 DIMM_B1 12size 16 GiB 12speed 2400 MT/s 12type DDR4
  12detail synchronous unbuffered (unregistered) 12bus-width 64 bits 12total 64 bits
  12manufacturer Patriot 12part-no 2400 C16 Series 12serial N/A
  12Device-4 DIMM_B2 12size 16 GiB 12speed 2400 MT/s 12type DDR4
  12detail synchronous unbuffered (unregistered) 12bus-width 64 bits 12total 64 bits
  12manufacturer Patriot 12part-no 2400 C16 Series 12serial N/A
12CPU:
  12Info 12-Core 12model AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12socket AM4 12bits 64 12type MT MCP
  12arch Zen 2 12family 17 (23) 12model-id 71 (113) 12stepping 0 12microcode 8701021
  12cache 12L1 768 KiB 12L2 6 MiB 12L3 64 MiB 12bogomips 182137
  12Speed 3589 MHz 12min/max 2200/3800 MHz 12base/boost 3800/4650 12boost enabled
  12volts 1.1 V 12ext-clock 100 MHz 12Core speeds (MHz) 121 3589 122 2152 123 2192 124 2195
  125 3581 126 2185 127 2192 128 2196 129 2194 1210 2196 1211 2195 1212 2194 1213 2195 1214 2197
  1215 2195 1216 2194 1217 2195 1218 2195 1219 2194 1220 2196 1221 2195 1222 2194 1223 2196
  1224 2195
  12Flags 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2
  bpext cat_l3 cdp_l3 clflush clflushopt clwb clzero cmov cmp_legacy
  constant_tsc cpb cpuid cqm cqm_llc cqm_mbm_local cqm_mbm_total cqm_occup_llc
  cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de decodeassists extapic extd_apicid f16c flushbyasid
  fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibpb ibs irperf lahf_lm lbrv lm
  mba mca mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor movbe msr mtrr mwaitx nonstop_tsc
  nopl npt nrip_save nx osvw overflow_recov pae pat pausefilter pclmulqdq
  pdpe1gb perfctr_core perfctr_llc perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pni popcnt pse
  pse36 rdpid rdpru rdrand rdseed rdt_a rdtscp rep_good sep sev sev_es sha_ni
  skinit smap smca sme smep ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 stibp
  succor svm svm_lock syscall tce topoext tsc tsc_scale umip v_spec_ctrl
  v_vmsave_vmload vgif vmcb_clean vme vmmcall wbnoinvd wdt xgetbv1 xsave
  xsavec xsaveerptr xsaveopt xsaves
  12Vulnerabilities 12Type itlb_multihit 12status Not affected
  12Type l1tf 12status Not affected
  12Type mds 12status Not affected
  12Type meltdown 12status Not affected
  12Type spec_store_bypass
  12mitigation Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
  12Type spectre_v1
  12mitigation usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  12Type spectre_v2 12mitigation Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP:
  conditional, RSB filling
  12Type srbds 12status Not affected
  12Type tsx_async_abort 12status Not affected
12Graphics:
  12Device-1 NVIDIA GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB] 12vendor ASUSTeK 12driver nouveau
  12v kernel 12bus-ID 0a:00.0 12chip-ID 10de:1c03 12class-ID 0300
  12Display 12server X.Org 1.20.13 12compositor xfwm4 12v 4.16.1 12driver 12loaded nouveau
  12unloaded modesetting 12alternate fbdev,nv,vesa 12display-ID :0.0 12screens 1
  12Screen-1 0 12s-res 6400x1080 12s-dpi 96 12s-size 1693x285mm (66.7x11.2")
  12s-diag 1717mm (67.6")
  12Monitor-1 DP-2 12res 1920x1080 12hz 60 12dpi 102 12size 480x270mm (18.9x10.6")
  12diag 551mm (21.7")
  12Monitor-2 HDMI-1 12res 1920x1080 12hz 60 12dpi 81 12size 600x330mm (23.6x13.0")
  12diag 685mm (27")
  12Monitor-3 HDMI-2 12res 2560x1080 12hz 60 12dpi 81 12size 798x334mm (31.4x13.1")
  12diag 865mm (34.1")
  12OpenGL 12renderer NV136 12v 4.3 Mesa 21.2.3 12direct render Yes
12Audio:
  12Device-1 NVIDIA GP106 High Definition Audio 12vendor ASUSTeK
  12driver snd_hda_intel 12v kernel 12bus-ID 0a:00.1 12chip-ID 10de:10f1 12class-ID 0403
  12Device-2 AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio 12vendor ASUSTeK 12driver snd_hda_intel
  12v kernel 12bus-ID 0c:00.4 12chip-ID 1022:1487 12class-ID 0403
  12Device-3 C-Media Blue Snowball 12type USB
  12driver hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid 12bus-ID 5-1:2 12chip-ID 0d8c:0005
  12class-ID 0300 12serial <filter>
  12Sound Server-1 ALSA 12v k5.13.19-2-MANJARO 12running yes
  12Sound Server-2 JACK 12v 1.9.19 12running no
  12Sound Server-3 PulseAudio 12v 15.0 12running yes
  12Sound Server-4 PipeWire 12v 0.3.38 12running no
12Network:
  12Device-1 Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 12driver r8169
  12v kernel 12port e000 12bus-ID 04:00.0 12chip-ID 10ec:8161 12class-ID 0200
  12IF enp4s0 12state down 12mac <filter>
  12Device-2 Qualcomm Atheros AR93xx Wireless Network Adapter 12driver ath9k
  12v kernel 12bus-ID 05:00.0 12chip-ID 168c:0030 12class-ID 0280
  12IF wlp5s0 12state down 12mac <filter>
  12Device-3 Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
  12vendor ASUSTeK 12driver r8169 12v kernel 12port d000 12bus-ID 06:00.0
  12chip-ID 10ec:8168 12class-ID 0200
  12IF enp6s0 12state up 12speed 1000 Mbps 12duplex full 12mac <filter>
  12IP v4 <filter> 12type dynamic noprefixroute 12scope global 12broadcast <filter>
  12IP v6 <filter> 12type noprefixroute 12scope link
  12WAN IP <filter>
12Bluetooth:
  12Device-1 Broadcom BCM20702A0 Bluetooth 4.0 12type USB 12driver btusb 12v 0.8
  12bus-ID 1-2:2 12chip-ID 0a5c:21e8 12class-ID fe01 12serial <filter>
  12Report rfkill 12ID hci0 12rfk-id 1 12state down 12bt-service N/A 12rfk-block
  12hardware no 12software yes 12address see --recommends
12Logical:
  12Message No logical block device data found.
12RAID:
  12Message No RAID data found.
12Drives:
  12Local Storage 12total 4.56 TiB 12used 38.54 GiB (0.8%)
  12SMART Message Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  12ID-1 /dev/nvme0n1 12maj-min 259:0 12vendor Western Digital
  12model WDS500G2B0C-00PXH0 12size 465.76 GiB 12block-size 12physical 512 B
  12logical 512 B 12speed 31.6 Gb/s 12lanes 4 12type SSD 12serial <filter> 12rev 211070WD
  12temp 32.9 C
  12ID-2 /dev/sda 12maj-min 8:0 12vendor Samsung 12model SSD 850 EVO 500GB
  12size 465.76 GiB 12block-size 12physical 512 B 12logical 512 B 12speed 6.0 Gb/s
  12type SSD 12serial <filter> 12rev 2B6Q
  12ID-3 /dev/sdb 12maj-min 8:16 12vendor Hitachi 12model HUA723020ALA640
  12size 1.82 TiB 12block-size 12physical 512 B 12logical 512 B 12speed 3.0 Gb/s
  12type N/A 12serial <filter> 12rev A870
  12ID-4 /dev/sdc 12maj-min 8:32 12vendor Hitachi 12model HUS724020ALA640
  12size 1.82 TiB 12block-size 12physical 512 B 12logical 512 B 12speed 6.0 Gb/s
  12type N/A 12serial <filter> 12rev NS00
  12ID-5 /dev/sdd 12maj-min 8:48 12type USB 12vendor SanDisk 12model Cruzer Blade
  12size 7.45 GiB 12block-size 12physical 512 B 12logical 512 B 12type N/A
  12serial <filter> 12rev 1.27
  12Message No optical or floppy data found.
12Partition:
  12ID-1 / 12raw-size 465.46 GiB 12size 457.16 GiB (98.22%) 12used 38.54 GiB (8.4%)
  12fs ext4 12block-size 4096 B 12dev /dev/nvme0n1p2 12maj-min 259:2 12label N/A
  12uuid 6160df19-0b44-48f0-967f-d6fa5b49976b
  12ID-2 /boot/efi 12raw-size 300 MiB 12size 299.4 MiB (99.80%) 12used 312 KiB (0.1%)
  12fs vfat 12block-size 512 B 12dev /dev/nvme0n1p1 12maj-min 259:1 12label N/A
  12uuid D258-D9FF
12Swap:
  12Alert No swap data was found.
12Unmounted:
  12ID-1 /dev/sda1 12maj-min 8:1 12size 450 MiB 12fs ntfs 12label Recovery
  12uuid 0E56129E5612869D
  12ID-2 /dev/sda2 12maj-min 8:2 12size 100 MiB 12fs fat (32 bit) 12label N/A
  12uuid DC12-EAC8
  12ID-3 /dev/sda3 12maj-min 8:3 12size 16 MiB 12fs N/A 12label N/A 12uuid N/A
  12ID-4 /dev/sda4 12maj-min 8:4 12size 464.7 GiB 12fs ntfs 12label N/A
  12uuid A4D41B38D41B0C64
  12ID-5 /dev/sda5 12maj-min 8:5 12size 515 MiB 12fs ntfs 12label N/A
  12uuid 34841C27841BEA5E
  12ID-6 /dev/sdb1 12maj-min 8:17 12size 128 MiB 12fs N/A 12label N/A 12uuid N/A
  12ID-7 /dev/sdb2 12maj-min 8:18 12size 1.82 TiB 12fs ntfs 12label 2nd Disk
  12uuid E2D023B1D0238B3D
  12ID-8 /dev/sdc1 12maj-min 8:33 12size 16 MiB 12fs N/A 12label N/A 12uuid N/A
  12ID-9 /dev/sdd1 12maj-min 8:49 12size 2.93 GiB 12fs N/A 12label MANJARO_XFCE_2116
  12uuid 2021-10-17-17-31-08-00
  12ID-10 /dev/sdd2 12maj-min 8:50 12size 4 MiB 12fs N/A 12label MISO_EFI 12uuid 922B-3DAB
12USB:
  12Hub-1 1-0:1 12info Full speed (or root) Hub 12ports 6 12rev 2.0 12speed 480 Mb/s
  12chip-ID 1d6b:0002 12class-ID 0900
  12Device-1 1-2:2 12info Broadcom BCM20702A0 Bluetooth 4.0 12type Bluetooth
  12driver btusb 12interfaces 4 12rev 2.0 12speed 12 Mb/s 12chip-ID 0a5c:21e8
  12class-ID fe01 12serial <filter>
  12Device-2 1-3:3 12info Microsoft Xbox360 Controller 12type <vendor specific>
  12driver xpad 12interfaces 4 12rev 2.0 12speed 12 Mb/s 12power 500mA 12chip-ID 045e:028e
  12class-ID ff00 12serial <filter>
  12Device-3 1-4:4 12info SanDisk Cruzer Blade 12type Mass Storage
  12driver usb-storage 12interfaces 1 12rev 2.0 12speed 480 Mb/s 12power 200mA
  12chip-ID 0781:5567 12class-ID 0806 12serial <filter>
  12Hub-2 2-0:1 12info Full speed (or root) Hub 12ports 4 12rev 3.1 12speed 10 Gb/s
  12chip-ID 1d6b:0003 12class-ID 0900
  12Hub-3 3-0:1 12info Full speed (or root) Hub 12ports 6 12rev 2.0 12speed 480 Mb/s
  12chip-ID 1d6b:0002 12class-ID 0900
  12Device-1 3-6:2 12info ASUSTek AURA LED Controller 12type HID
  12driver hid-generic,usbhid 12interfaces 2 12rev 2.0 12speed 12 Mb/s 12power 16mA
  12chip-ID 0b05:18f3 12class-ID 0300 12serial <filter>
  12Hub-4 4-0:1 12info Full speed (or root) Hub 12ports 4 12rev 3.1 12speed 10 Gb/s
  12chip-ID 1d6b:0003 12class-ID 0900
  12Hub-5 5-0:1 12info Full speed (or root) Hub 12ports 4 12rev 2.0 12speed 480 Mb/s
  12chip-ID 1d6b:0002 12class-ID 0900
  12Device-1 5-1:2 12info C-Media Blue Snowball 12type Audio,HID
  12driver hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid 12interfaces 3 12rev 1.1 12speed 12 Mb/s
  12power 100mA 12chip-ID 0d8c:0005 12class-ID 0300 12serial <filter>
  12Device-2 5-2:3 12info Logitech G402 Gaming Mouse 12type Mouse,HID
  12driver hid-generic,usbhid 12interfaces 2 12rev 2.0 12speed 12 Mb/s 12power 300mA
  12chip-ID 046d:c07e 12class-ID 0300 12serial <filter>
  12Device-3 5-3:4 12info Logitech G710 Gaming Keyboard 12type Keyboard,HID
  12driver hid-generic,usbhid 12interfaces 2 12rev 2.0 12speed 12 Mb/s 12power 400mA
  12chip-ID 046d:c24d 12class-ID 0300
  12Device-4 5-4:5 12info Synaptics 12type <vendor specific> 12driver N/A 12interfaces 1
  12rev 2.0 12speed 12 Mb/s 12power 100mA 12chip-ID 06cb:0082 12class-ID ff00
  12serial <filter>
  12Hub-6 6-0:1 12info Full speed (or root) Hub 12ports 4 12rev 3.1 12speed 10 Gb/s
  12chip-ID 1d6b:0003 12class-ID 0900
12Sensors:
  12System Temperatures 12cpu 37.4 C 12mobo N/A 12gpu nouveau 12temp 33.0 C
  12Fan Speeds (RPM) N/A 12gpu nouveau 12fan 870
12Info:
  12Processes 448 12Uptime 7m 12wakeups 0 12Init systemd 12v 249 12tool systemctl
  12Compilers 12gcc 11.1.0 12alt 10 12Packages 12pacman 1374 12lib 423 12flatpak 0
  12Client Unknown Client: systemd 12inxi 3.3.08

but now when i boot that error message is gone but its just a black screen and nothing happens.
i can get into TTY but thats all

[manjaro /]# journalctl --catalog --priority=3 --boot=-1
-- Journal begins at Mon 2021-02-08 15:40:49 MST, ends at Thu 2021-10-28 07:10:25 MDT. --
Oct 28 07:07:35 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: hid-generic 0003:0D8C:0005.0001: No inputs registered, leaving
Oct 28 07:07:35 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: cgroup2: Unknown parameter 'memory_recursiveprot'
Oct 28 07:07:35 ManjaroGameingPC systemd-modules-load[419]: Failed to find module 'vfs_monitor'
Oct 28 07:07:35 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: sp5100-tco sp5100-tco: Watchdog hardware is disabled
Oct 28 07:07:35 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: proc: Bad value for 'hidepid'
Oct 28 07:07:35 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: proc: Bad value for 'hidepid'
Oct 28 07:07:35 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: kvm: disabled by bios
Oct 28 07:07:35 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: kvm: disabled by bios
Oct 28 07:07:35 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: kvm: disabled by bios
Oct 28 07:07:35 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: kvm: disabled by bios
Oct 28 07:07:35 ManjaroGameingPC systemd[1]: Failed to start Light Display Manager.
-- Subject: A start job for unit lightdm.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://forum.manjaro.org/c/support
-- 
-- A start job for unit lightdm.service has finished with a failure.
-- 
-- The job identifier is 555 and the job result is failed.
Oct 28 07:07:35 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: kvm: disabled by bios
Oct 28 07:07:35 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: kvm: disabled by bios
Oct 28 07:07:35 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: kvm: disabled by bios
Oct 28 07:07:36 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: kvm: disabled by bios
Oct 28 07:07:36 ManjaroGameingPC systemd[1]: Failed to start Light Display Manager.
-- Subject: A start job for unit lightdm.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://forum.manjaro.org/c/support
-- 
-- A start job for unit lightdm.service has finished with a failure.
-- 
-- The job identifier is 773 and the job result is failed.
Oct 28 07:07:36 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: kvm: disabled by bios
Oct 28 07:07:36 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: kvm: disabled by bios
Oct 28 07:07:36 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: kvm: disabled by bios
Oct 28 07:07:36 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: kvm: disabled by bios
Oct 28 07:07:36 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: kvm: disabled by bios
Oct 28 07:07:36 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: kvm: disabled by bios
Oct 28 07:07:37 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: kvm: disabled by bios
Oct 28 07:07:37 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: kvm: disabled by bios
Oct 28 07:07:37 ManjaroGameingPC bluetoothd[1413]: src/adapter.c:reset_adv_monitors_complete() Failed to reset Adv Monitors: Unknown Command (0x01)
Oct 28 07:07:37 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: kvm: disabled by bios
Oct 28 07:07:37 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: kvm: disabled by bios
Oct 28 07:07:37 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: kvm: disabled by bios
Oct 28 07:07:37 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: kvm: disabled by bios
Oct 28 07:07:37 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: kvm: disabled by bios
Oct 28 07:07:37 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: kvm: disabled by bios
Oct 28 07:07:38 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: kvm: disabled by bios
Oct 28 07:07:38 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: kvm: disabled by bios

so biased on this im guessing i need to enable kvm in bios?

i turned on virtualization in bios and now i have a different error.

[manjaro /]# journalctl --catalog --priority=3 --boot=-1
-- Journal begins at Mon 2021-02-08 15:40:49 MST, ends at Thu 2021-10-28 07:33:59 MDT. --
Oct 28 07:32:49 ManjaroGameingPC systemd-modules-load[392]: Failed to find module 'vfs_monitor'
Oct 28 07:32:50 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: hid-generic 0003:0D8C:0005.0001: No inputs registered, leaving
Oct 28 07:32:51 ManjaroGameingPC systemd[1]: Failed to start Light Display Manager.
-- Subject: A start job for unit lightdm.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://forum.manjaro.org/c/support
-- 
-- A start job for unit lightdm.service has finished with a failure.
-- 
-- The job identifier is 855 and the job result is failed.
Oct 28 07:32:51 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: firmware Patch file not found, tried:
Oct 28 07:32:51 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: 'brcm/BCM20702A1-0a5c-21e8.hcd'
Oct 28 07:32:51 ManjaroGameingPC kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: 'brcm/BCM-0a5c-21e8.hcd'

i don’t know how to fix this one.

This is the current issue I think (and was the real issue right from the start I guess). Not sure how to fix it right now, I’ll reply when I have an idea, or maybe someone who knows XFCE and LightDM can help too.

Actually I have an idea now I see you’re using the nouveau driver for your Nvidia video card. Try to install the Nvidia video drivers from TTY.

sudo mhwd -i pci video-nvidia

On a side note, I notice you’re using the 5.13 kernel, please use 5.10 or the latest 5.14 not this unsupported kernel.

5.13? these are the kernels i have installed.
image
maybe that’s the kernel for my live USB i just made it like a few hours ago it should be up to date.

it failed
image

OK we’ll have to clean that.

Remove inexistent (5.9) and unsupported (5.13) kernels.

sudo mhwd-kernel -r linux59
sudo mhwd-kernel -r linux513

You can also remove the old LTS kernel 5.4, you already have the LTS kernel 5.10, and the latest kernel 5.14, these two are enough for now.

sudo mhwd-kernel -r linux54

Now as it seems the video drivers setup is messed up (you’re using nouveau driver, allias video-linux, but you have the nvidie drivers installed too…), let clean and reinstall it all

sudo mhwd -r pci video-linux
sudo mhwd -r pci video-nvidia
sudo mhwd -i pci video-nvidia

See if it changes anything

Reference:

https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/Manjaro_Kernels
https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/Manjaro_Hardware_Detection_Overview

I opened up TTY

when I tried to remove 513 it said
Error: Kernel not installed
then it listed the ones I have installed
linux510
linux514
linux54
then I removed linux54
now I only have 2
I removed video-linux. it was successfull.
but when I went to remove video-nvidia it said that video-nvidia wasn’t installed

I ran this and it seemed to be installing fine. but then the screen turned off. and hasn’t turned back on yet. I assume this is expected behavior because I need a functional video driver in order to get screen output.
i assume its still going even though i cant see anything on the screen.