Boot-Process does not reach graphical screen in X11 or Wayland

[Aragorn]

@MaMicha

@Aragorn

You can start with running a full fsck on all of your ext4 partitions from a live USB session, but — and this is important! — without mounting them, let alone chroot’ing.

@BG405

You should run fsck from a Live session (but not in a CHROOT environment):

So chroot or NOT chroot?

No chroot. The filesystems may not even be mounted, or else fsck will cause even greater damage!

@MaMicha

And: In case a former check and repair using gParted may have removed some data, is it worth to restore /home/Username from an rsync-backup? If so, how?

For that, you need to mount the /home filesystem, and the one holding the backups.

Assuming that you’re working from the live USB — as you should! — first mount your /home at /mnt.

sudo mount -t ext4 /dev/nvme0n1p4 /mnt/

Then, you need to create a mountpoint for the volume with the backups. As I don’t know what volume that is, I will use /dev/sdb1 in the example below — adjust as required.

sudo mkdir /backups
sudo mount -t ext4 /dev/sdb1 /backups/
cp -RPpv /backups/timeshift/snapshots/<time-of-last-backup>/localhost/home/* /mnt/ && sync