Sorry, I understood the loading screen as after login … if that is not the case, of course desktop user profiles wont matter.
This is a way to disable/remove it:
Remove plymouth then?
Well… you can test with some boot parameters:
plymouth.enable=0 disablehooks=plymouth
You can add this to options during boot from grub if you hit ‘e’ at selection.
You can also apply it persistently by editing /etc/default/grub and adding to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX line. ex:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="plymouth.enable=0 disablehooks=plymouth"
Then run:
sudo update-grub
And reboot.
To remove it completely:
Uninstall:
sudo pacman -Rns plymouth plymouth-theme-manjaro
(im…
And general attempts at booting (specifically you might try runlevel 3):
When we have problems gaining access to our systems it is difficult to gather information, let alone fix any problems. Here we will cover common causes and solutions to ‘manjaro wont boot’.