Black Screen Issues with KDE Plasma after Windows Update

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It doesn’t matter which mirror you use anyway. The link I gave told you exactly what to do so I don’t know how much more we can help (beside literally spoon feeding you each and every command you want us to give). You need to try a little bit more or else you’ll never end up learning.

So also as I said initially, your Windows update did not create the issue you’re currently in, so provide good information now as requested by others in previous posts, or else this thread is going nowhere…

Provide info, we understand the issue, we help solve it. Simple as that.

From TTY (but it is easier from CHROOT with a live USB system as you can connect to the forum from web browser and copy paste things) update the system (and if you messed with mirrors I would do sudo pacman -Syyu to force refresh the package database) and see the result, if updating/finishing updating doesn’t help, there is no way around proving the maximum information possible.

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So a bit of an update here!

After some digging around on these forums I’ve stumbled upon some instructions that were helpful in getting me to address my issue. I figured out how to connect to the internet via the numcli command, updated some of the dependencies following this guide. I also figured out how to which version my kernel is currently 5.10…which I may need to update that. [This guide](Manjaro Kernels - Manjaro seems to be promising lead!

My question to the rest of you, will updating my kernel delete any of the files that I have stored on Manjaro?

Also for what its’ worth and Im sorry if this doesn’t matter, but I’ve seen other people talk about it, but I do have a nvidia graphics card that was recently updated.

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No.

Kernel “series” (5.10, 5.15, 6.4, etc) are their own packages that receive their own updates, and are not mutually exclusive.

Installing a new kernel will not remove the current kernel.
You may have multiple installed and choose between them.


Assuming all is well you should be able to do a regular update:

sudo pacman -Syu

For installing a kernel, in this example 6.1:

sudo mhwd-kernel -i linux61

(this should be done automatically, but you may also run sudo update-grub)

And reboot.

You should be able to select your kernel from GRUB during boot.

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Okay I feel like we coming down the final stretch here! After installing the 5.15 kernel I ran into another issue of not getting past the Asus splash screen. I searched and found this thread and another thread were suggesting I use the command

journalctl --boot=0 --system --priority=3 | tail --lines=50

It returned the following information:

kernel:x86cpu: SGX disabled by BIOS.
kernel: ata4.00: Read log 0x30 page 0x08 failed, Emask 0x40
kernel: usb 1-14: device descriptor read/64, error -71
systemd-modules-load[283]: Failed to find module 'nvidia-uvm'
overlayfs: missing 'lowerdir'

then I tried the other command:

journalctl -b-1 -p4 --no-pager

kernel: x86/cpu: SGX disabled by BIOS
kernel: MDS CPU bug present and SMT on, data leak possible. See https:www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/hw-vuln/mds.html for more details.
kernel: MMIO Stale Data CPU bug present and SMT on, data leak possible. See https: www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/hw-vuln/processor_mmio_stale_data.html for more details
kernel: #5 # 6 #7
kernel: ENERGY_PERF_BIAS: Set to 'normal', was 'performance'
kernel: pci 0000:04:00.0: can't disable ASPM;  OS doesn't have ASPM control
kernel:ata3.00: ATA Identify Device Log not supported
kernel:ata3.00: ATA Identify Device Log not supported
kernel: ata4.00: Read log 0x30 page 0x00 failed, Emask 0x40
kernel:ata5.00: ATA Identify Device Log not supported
kernel:ata5.00: ATA Identify Device Log not supported
kernel:kauditd_printk_skb: 54 callbacks suppressed
systemd0modules-load[279]: Failed to find module 'nvidia-uvm'
kernel: kauditd_printk_skb: 53 callbacks suppressed
kernel: r8188eu: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned. 
kernel: kauditd_printk_skb: 4 callbacks suppressed
kernel:kauditd_printk_skb: 4 callbacks suppressed
NetworkManager[777]: <warn> [1695175879.8427] device (w1p0sZ0f0u13): set-hw-addr: new MAC address ZZ: D3:5C:CE:A3:FZ not successfully set (scanning)
kernel: overlayfs: missing 'lowerdir'
kernel:kauditd_printk_skb: 123 callbacks suppressed
sddm[8112]: Signal received: SIGTERM
kernel: kauditd_printk_skb: 6 callbacks supprssed

Any help deciphering what this means would be greatly appreciated.