Black Screen after LUKS prompt

This started happening since last few updates. After I entered my LUKS password in the Plymouth prompt the system goes into black screen, can’t even switch to any TTY. However, if I press Esc immediately after entering the disk password, the system boots normally. This is so strange I don’t even know how to debug this. Any help will be appreciated.

I noticed this issue with Kernel 5.10, 5.11 & 5.12. I hybrid intel-nvidia graphics. I am using latest nvidia-prime driver from mhwd.

I had something similar recently. I noticed that if I unplug my second monitor, SDDM loads fine and I can proceed and plug it in back.
However, this is not necessarily the same issue.

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  1. Please read this:
    How to provide good information
    and post some more information so we can see what’s really going on. Now we know the symptom of the disease, but we need some more probing to know where the origin lies…

  2. An inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width would be the minimum required information… (Personally Identifiable Information like serial numbers and MAC addresses will be filtered out by the above command)
    Also, please copy-paste that output in-between 3 backticks ``` at the beginning and end of the code/text.

  3. The relevant part of a journalctl --boot=0 --system when:

    • you do get they system booted
    • it doesn’t (use boot=-1 to get the previous boot)

    would be helpful as well

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P.S. If you enter a bit more details in your profile, we can also see which Desktop Environment you’re using, which CPU/GPU or Kernel, … you have without typing it every time

Output of inxi is below. I have updated my profile as well.

System:
  Kernel: 5.12.1-2-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-5.12-x86_64 
  root=/dev/mapper/CryptVolumeGroup-Root rw 
  cryptdevice=UUID=d0c7eb55-9338-41ed-b28c-496ddc99365b:CryptLVM quiet splash 
  sysrq_always_enabled=1 net.ifnames=0 apparmor=1 intel_iommu=1 
  security=apparmor ec_sys.write_support=1 udev.log_priority=3 
  resume=/dev/disk/by-uuid/97897af4-a7ea-47b6-8db1-4745590b229e 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.21.4 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM 
  Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: System76 product: Adder WS v: addw1 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: System76 model: Adder WS v: addw1 serial: <filter> UEFI: INSYDE 
  v: 1.07.11-0 date: 06/20/2019 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 58.5 Wh (100.0%) condition: 58.5/62.1 Wh (94.2%) 
  volts: 12.4 min: 10.9 model: Notebook BAT type: Li-ion serial: <filter> 
  status: Full 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 31.07 GiB used: 3.21 GiB (10.3%) 
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Info: 6-Core model: Intel Core i7-9750H bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Kaby Lake note: check family: 6 model-id: 9E (158) stepping: A (10) 
  microcode: DE cache: L2: 12 MiB bogomips: 62431 
  Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/4500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 4048 
  3: 3427 4: 2391 5: 1791 6: 1032 7: 857 8: 800 9: 1315 10: 800 11: 800 
  12: 800 
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon art 
  avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid 
  cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept ept_ad erms est 
  f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht hwp hwp_act_window 
  hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs ida intel_pt invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm 
  mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe mpx msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat 
  pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts 
  rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep sgx sgx_lc smap smep ss ssbd sse sse2 
  sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust 
  tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt 
  xsaves xtopology xtpr 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
  Type: l1tf 
  mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable 
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, 
  IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 630 vendor: CLEVO/KAPOK driver: i915 v: kernel 
  bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3e9b class-ID: 0300 
  Device-2: NVIDIA TU106M [GeForce RTX 2070 Mobile] vendor: CLEVO/KAPOK 
  driver: nvidia v: 465.27 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 01:00.0 
  chip-ID: 10de:1f10 class-ID: 0300 
  Device-3: Acer BisonCam NB Pro type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-9:4 
  chip-ID: 5986:9102 class-ID: 0e02 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: 
  loaded: modesetting,nvidia display-ID: :0 screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x2160 s-dpi: 192 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2") 
  s-diag: 582mm (22.9") 
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 3840x2160 hz: 60 dpi: 284 size: 344x194mm (13.5x7.6") 
  diag: 395mm (15.5") 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.0.3 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: CLEVO/KAPOK 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl 
  bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a348 class-ID: 0403 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.12.1-2-MANJARO running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: sndio v: N/A running: no 
  Sound Server-3: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no 
  Sound Server-4: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
  Sound Server-5: PipeWire v: 0.3.26 running: no 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 9560 [Jefferson Peak] driver: iwlwifi v: kernel 
  port: 5000 bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:a370 class-ID: 0280 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  broadcast: <filter> 
  IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: CLEVO/KAPOK driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 bus-ID: 72:00.0 
  chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  IF-ID-1: docker0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter> 
  WAN IP: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Bluetooth 9460/9560 Jefferson Peak (JfP) type: USB 
  driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-14:5 chip-ID: 8087:0aaa class-ID: e001 
  Report: bt-adapter ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down 
  bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block: hardware: no software: no 
  address: <filter> 
Logical:
  Message: Unable to run lvs. Root privileges required. 
  Device-1: CryptLVM maj-min: 254:0 type: LUKS dm: dm-0 size: 464.76 GiB 
  Components: 
  p-1: nvme1n1p3 maj-min: 259:4 size: 464.76 GiB 
  Device-2: Data_Drive maj-min: 254:5 type: LUKS dm: dm-5 size: 465.75 GiB 
  Components: 
  p-1: nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:5 size: 465.76 GiB 
  Device-3: Web_Drive maj-min: 254:4 type: LUKS dm: dm-4 size: 465.75 GiB 
  Components: 
  p-1: nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:6 size: 465.75 GiB 
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found. 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.82 TiB used: 467.5 GiB (25.1%) 
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:1 vendor: Samsung 
  model: SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B 
  logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 rotation: SSD serial: <filter> 
  rev: 2B2QEXM7 scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung 
  model: SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B 
  logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 rotation: SSD serial: <filter> 
  rev: 2B2QEXM7 scheme: GPT 
  ID-3: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 500GB 
  size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  rotation: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 1B6Q scheme: GPT 
  Message: No optical or floppy data found. 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 160 GiB size: 160 GiB (100.00%) used: 46.67 GiB (29.2%) 
  fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-1 maj-min: 254:1 mapped: CryptVolumeGroup-Root 
  label: N/A uuid: N/A 
  ID-2: /boot raw-size: 512 MiB size: 511 MiB (99.80%) used: 265 MiB (51.9%) 
  fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme1n1p2 maj-min: 259:3 label: N/A uuid: D740-2464 
  ID-3: /boot/efi raw-size: 512 MiB size: 511 MiB (99.80%) 
  used: 416 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme1n1p1 maj-min: 259:2 label: N/A 
  uuid: D7CE-89F5 
  ID-4: /home raw-size: 272.76 GiB size: 272.76 GiB (100.00%) 
  used: 237.47 GiB (87.1%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-2 maj-min: 254:2 
  mapped: CryptVolumeGroup-Home label: N/A uuid: N/A 
  ID-5: /home/<filter>/data_drive raw-size: 465.75 GiB 
  size: 465.75 GiB (100.00%) used: 173.9 GiB (37.3%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-5 
  maj-min: 254:5 mapped: Data_Drive label: N/A uuid: N/A 
  ID-6: /home/<filter>/web_drive raw-size: 465.75 GiB 
  size: 465.75 GiB (100.00%) used: 9.21 GiB (2.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-4 
  maj-min: 254:4 mapped: Web_Drive label: N/A uuid: N/A 
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache-pressure: 50 (default 100) 
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 32 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
  dev: /dev/dm-3 maj-min: 254:3 mapped: CryptVolumeGroup-SWAP label: N/A 
  uuid: 97897af4-a7ea-47b6-8db1-4745590b229e 
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 529 MiB fs: ntfs label: Recovery 
  uuid: 2C58BB5058BB1792 
  ID-2: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 size: 100 MiB fs: vfat label: N/A 
  uuid: 38BB-55B2 
  ID-3: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 size: 16 MiB fs: <superuser required> 
  label: N/A uuid: N/A 
  ID-4: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 size: 128 GiB fs: bitlocker label: N/A 
  uuid: N/A 
  ID-5: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5 size: 337.13 GiB fs: <superuser required> 
  label: N/A uuid: N/A 
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 16 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 1-6:2 info: Logitech Unifying Receiver type: Keyboard,Mouse,HID 
  driver: logitech-djreceiver,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s 
  power: 98mA chip-ID: 046d:c52b class-ID: 0300 
  Device-2: 1-7:3 info: Synaptics type: <vendor specific> driver: N/A 
  interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 06cb:00c7 
  class-ID: ff00 serial: <filter> 
  Device-3: 1-9:4 info: Acer BisonCam NB Pro type: Video driver: uvcvideo 
  interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 5986:9102 
  class-ID: 0e02 
  Device-4: 1-14:5 info: Intel Bluetooth 9460/9560 Jefferson Peak (JfP) 
  type: Bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s 
  power: 100mA chip-ID: 8087:0aaa class-ID: e001 
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 8 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-3: 5-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-4: 6-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 61.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 392 Uptime: 6m wakeups: 2 Init: systemd v: 247 tool: systemctl 
  Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 alt: 4.9/4.9.4/8 clang: 11.1.0 Packages: 2526 
  pacman: 2507 lib: 563 flatpak: 10 snap: 9 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 
  running-in: yakuake inxi: 3.3.04 

The journal log: Journal - Pastebin.com

You missed these bits:

  • Once when
  • And another one

If you don’t know which the relevant part is, please give me the time (up to a second) when the issue happens / doesn’t happen.

:thinking:

Thanks @Fabby , I will keep them in mind. Currently the problem seems to be resolved after after latest update.

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