Black screen with cursor and no main menu

Hello,
So after update,main menu was not responsive after restarting there is only black screen and cursor and i’m able to use terminal and shortcuts but nothing is showing on main menu or plasmashell
Anyone help me here

Info

journalctl -b -0 --no-pager | curl --upload - https://aptget.xyz/boot.0.log

1.https://aptget.xyz/4xVh7/boot.0.log

  1. inxi -Fazy
[manjaro@manjaro ~]$ inxi -Fazy
System:
  Kernel: 5.10.23-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-x86_64 lang=en_US keytable=us tz=UTC 
  misobasedir=manjaro misolabel=MANJARO_KDE_210 quiet systemd.show_status=1 
  apparmor=1 security=apparmor driver=free nouveau.modeset=1 i915.modeset=1 
  radeon.modeset=1 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.21.3 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM 
  Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Latitude E5430 non-vPro v: 01 
  serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 9 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Dell model: 0F5PHF v: A00 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: A03 
  date: 06/03/2012 
CPU:
  Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-3320M bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Ivy Bridge family: 6 model-id: 3A (58) stepping: 9 microcode: 21 
  cache: L2: 3 MiB 
  flags: avx lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 20743 
  Speed: 1536 MHz min/max: 1200/3300 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1536 2: 1589 
  3: 2382 4: 1780 
  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 status: Vulnerable: No microcode 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics vendor: Dell driver: i915 
  v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0166 class-ID: 0300 
  Device-2: Microdia Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_E4HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo 
  bus-ID: 1-1.5:3 chip-ID: 0c45:6449 class-ID: 0e02 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: 
  loaded: intel unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa display-ID: :0 
  screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.2x8.0") 
  s-diag: 414mm (16.3") 
  Monitor-1: LVDS1 res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 112 size: 310x170mm (12.2x6.7") 
  diag: 354mm (13.9") 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 4000 (IVB GT2) 
  v: 4.2 Mesa 20.3.4 compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio vendor: Dell 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:1e20 
  class-ID: 0403 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.23-1-MANJARO running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no 
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.23 running: no 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel 
  port: f040 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:422b class-ID: 0280 
  IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5761 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe vendor: Dell 
  driver: tg3 v: kernel port: f040 bus-ID: 0c:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:1681 
  class-ID: 0200 
  IF: enp12s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci 
  v: 3.0 port: f060 bus-ID: 00:1f.2 chip-ID: 8086.282a rev: 04 class-ID: 0104 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 494.41 GiB used: 355.49 GiB (71.9%) 
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital 
  model: WD5000LPLX-75ZNTT0 size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B 
  logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> rev: 1A01 
  scheme: MBR 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Ultra 
  size: 28.65 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B serial: <filter> 
  rev: 1.00 scheme: MBR 
  SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure? 
Swap:
  Alert: No Swap data was found. 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 66.0 C mobo: 51.0 C sodimm: SODIMM C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2798 
Info:
  Processes: 215 Uptime: 16m wakeups: 1 Memory: 3.73 GiB 
  used: 1.93 GiB (51.8%) Init: systemd v: 247 tool: systemctl Compilers: 
  gcc: N/A Packages: pacman: 1217 lib: 325 flatpak: 0 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.0 
  running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.03 
  1. sudo parted -l
[manjaro@manjaro ~]$ sudo parted -l
Model: ATA WDC WD5000LPLX-7 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End    Size   Type     File system  Flags
 1      1049kB  500GB  500GB  primary  ext4         boot


Model: SanDisk Ultra (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 30.8GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
 2      2826MB  2831MB  4194kB  primary               esp

Okay after doing some digging and realized somehow my plasmashell crashed and was not working again

sudo pacman -S plasma kf5

after using this command and reboot it works now :slight_smile:

ps: i don’t remember the thread but thanks to that person.

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