I’m running Manjaro GNOME on a ThinkPad L15 Gen 1. Yesterday, I applied the latest system updates. It had been about 1–2 months since my last update. Around a month ago, I also upgraded the laptop’s RAM from 8 GB to 64 GB.
Yesterday, after restarting the system following the update, it failed to boot properly. The screen remained black, with only the top GNOME bar visible. Keyboard shortcuts to access a TTY session didn’t work either.
I tried editing GRUB by removing quiet splash and also removing plymouth, but neither approach changed the outcome. Eventually, I restored the system using a Timeshift snapshot, which resolved the issue, but as soon as I apply the update again, the same problem reoccurs.
Do you have any idea what might be causing this issue or how to fix it? I can hold off on updating for now, but I’ll need to update the system eventually.
Please provide system information as described (below).
I’m sure someone will help when they are able.
Regards.
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This next tutorial is not directly related, but it does give examples of how to enter a chroot environment if you happen to use a BTRFS filesystem (the default since Manjaro 25.0);
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