Blinking cursor at boot

[dejhost]

After a reboot, I get a blinking cursor instead of the usual login screen. Prior reboot, I was troubleshooting bluez. However, I can drop to the shell.

I have a long history with troublesome nvidia graphic drivers ((see here). I need the non-free driver and Cuda working. Can you please help me to get GUI and drivers back in place?

Here is some basic information:

[dejhost]

Adding errors from boot-log:

[6x12]

Kernel 6.2 is dead and your system hasn’t been updated for a long time. Do you have another kernel you can boot, like 6.1LTS?
If so, boot that, remove 6.2 and update your system.

[Teo]

And if you boot from a flash drive you could chroot from there, and have gui, and be able to copy paste normally in the forum. Because this with the screenshots is not very convenient…for us to read too.

[dejhost]

I booted from 6.1.44-1 - and I am back in my GUI. Thank you.
Removed the old kernel. Updating though fails:

Building python-pyqt5-sip4...
==> Making package: python-pyqt5-sip4 5.15.9-2 (Mon 21 Aug 2023 02:37:55 PM CEST)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Downloading PyQt5-5.15.9.tar.gz...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed

  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
100   122  100   122    0     0   1280      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  1284

100   271  100   271    0     0   1178      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  1178

  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0

  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
100 3165k  100 3165k    0     0  5379k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 23.4M
  -> Found restore-sip4-support.patch
==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    PyQt5-5.15.9.tar.gz ... Passed
    restore-sip4-support.patch ... Passed
==> Removing existing $srcdir/ directory...
==> Extracting sources...
  -> Extracting PyQt5-5.15.9.tar.gz with bsdtar
==> Starting prepare()...
patching file sip/QtCore/QtCoremod.sip
Hunk #1 succeeded at 20 with fuzz 2.
==> Starting build()...
/var/tmp/pamac-build-dejhost/python-pyqt5-sip4/PKGBUILD: line 53: sip-build: command not found
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

Could you please also provide a hint here?

[6x12]

That’s well over my head; you better wait for somebody who’s more knowledgeable than me.

[dejhost]

ok. I will reboot and see what happens…
Thank you for your input. All good.

[cscs]

sudo pacman-mirrors -f && sudo pacman -Syu

Report any errors

(the msg you shared is pamac failing to build an AUR package)