Hi everyone. I’m resorting to writing a post here, since I have so far been unable to find a solution to my issue. Disclaimer: I have already checked the posts regarding similar issues on this forum, and have unfortunately not been able to find a working solution to my own problem. Hence why I’m posting here.
TL;DR: Updated manjaro, getting a black screen after Grub. No TTY access. Also getting no signal on monitor when plugged to my GPU in HDMI. VGA/DVI works fine.
A bit of background/context:
Couple of days ago, I came home after a trip and booted my Manjaro partition. I ran pacman -Syu to update my system, and some error came up. Being lazy, I opened pamac hoping it would give me an easy solution to my updating problem. Which it did. Apparently, and if I remember correctly, what needed to be done was to remove a version of nivida-utils (really can’t remember what precise version, and I’m not even sure it was nvidia-utils, just didn’t pay that much attention to it all because I was exhausted). And so I did, ran the command to remove the exact package pamac was telling me to, then ran pacman -Syu again to be done with the updating. Manjaro worked just fine, until the next reboot, after which it didn’t.
What the issue is:
I’m getting a black screen after selecting Manjaro in Grub. I have tried blindly entering my password, in case I was just not seeing the login screen, but this did not seem to make anything happen. I have no access to TTY (or at least, the shortcut gives no output on screen). I have tried selecting the fallback kernel version in Grub but the outcome was no different. I also tried selecting the only other kernel I have installed (linux414) which returns a kernel panic message (something VFS related)
What I have tried so far:
I have a USB drive with the Manjaro ISO on it. I have tried booting live on it and chrooting in my installation, and from here, I have tried:
- updating the system
- reinstalling the kernel (or at least that’s broadly what I think this command does. sorry if the terms i use aren’t exact) with
pacman -S linux - running
mkinitcpio -p linux414andmkinitcpio -p linux511to try and fix the fallback image. In the first case, the command returned no output, even with the verbose option, and in the second, the command returned successful output, but the main issue remained - updating grub
- Running
pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utilsandmodprobe nvidia
the first command reinstalled the drivers succesfully, but gave me this odd message at the end:
==> Warning: -> This computer hasn't been restarted for a while. -> You are running an old kernel. In order to use a -> new version of the kernel, please restart your -> computer as soon as possible.
The modprobe command returns this:
modprobe: FATAL: Module nvidia not found in directory /lib/modules/5.10.42-1-MANJARO
- Here’s the output of
mhwd-kernel -li:
The following kernels are installed in your system:
- linux414
- linux511
-
I have also tried installing a different kernel. Here’s the ouput of
mhwd-kernel -i [any other kernel]:
error: no targets specified (use -h for help) -
The error
update-grubreturns:
[…]
grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sde1. Check your device.map.
grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sde1. Check your device.map.
I hope to have provided enough information.
As you can probably guess I’m getting a little desperate and I would very much like to not have to reinstall Manjaro, hence I would appreciate it greatly if someone knew how to help me!
Here are my specs
OS: Manjaro Linux x86_64
Kernel: 5.10.42-1-MANJARO
Uptime: 1 hour, 26 mins
Packages: 1531 (pacman)
Shell: sh
Resolution: 1920x1080
DE: KDE5
WM: KWin
Theme: [KDE5], Breath [GTK2/3]
Icons: [KDE5], breath2 [GTK2/3]
CPU: Intel i5-7600 (4) @ 4.100GHz
GPU: Intel HD Graphics 630
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
Memory: 3120MiB / 7821MiB
Nvidia driver and nvidia utils version:
linux414-nvidia 470.57.02-1
nvidia-utils 470.57.02-1
