Hi, i updated system today, newest stable kernel, and now i cant load into system, i cant even choose timeshift backup before loading. The screen just goes black and the only thing that i tried that works is ctrl + alt + del to restart and it does the same thing after that, i can only catch a glimpse of text that shows in console before restarting is something about watchdog. Is this fixeable?
Edit:
I booted ubuntu usb drive and managed to boot up system, i can see all the files on manjaro system, backup folder from today has 50GB+(ubuntu keeps calculating more so i stoped it), i also have 2 more previewes timeshifts and i have access to files. Can i check/edit some files now?
Edit 2:
Xorg.0.log file has Nvidia errors, âFailed to intialize the Nvidia kernel module. Please see the system kernel log for additional error msgs and consult nvidia readme.â i cheched that folder but its empty /var/log/
Did you also try ctrl+alt+F3? Because it looks more like a problem with Nvidia than with the boot process. After crtl+alt+F3 you should get to a terminal login. ctrl+alt+F1 should bring you back to the black screen.
ah great, thanks! now i can get into terminal
as far as i understood the error, this happened because i installed drivers from manager and not from pacman and then when i updated system drivers got corrupted or something like that. Should i now remove drivers i installed and install them from pacman ?
Yes or using the hardware detection tool. There is a rather long article about configuring GPUs. But normally i would go with the stock drivers unless they donât work properly.
I read the article and i have tried installing nonfree and free drivers, the issue now is that on free drivers the gui works but even duckstation lags like its not using the gpu, on nonfree drivers it use to work perfectly before the last update but now if i try to install nonfree i get black screen and its back to square 1 of this problem. Can i resolve this somehow?
I ran into this same problem this morning while updating five systems. Two of which had nvidia GPUs. The GTX970 is fine, but the RTX2060 had the same problem as Marry. After a bit of doing the same dance I assume she was doing, I found only bandaid solutions. âlinux-nvidia-470xxâ worked but with some caveats. It showed a second phantom display which it made the main display, and was all around laggy in KDE. âvideo-linuxâ was way smoother but came with the usual drawbacks. Sadly, I think itâs a pick your poison and ride it out until a âlinux-nvidiaâ update is pushed. Manjaro has only been my daily for 3 years and change, so take my solution with a heaping pile of salt.
Band-aid solution how to:
For those who have the nvidia issue and need to use your computer even if not at 100%, I give âaâ solution. Weâll skip the âRTFMâ and go straight to the âTLDRâ
Boot it up, when you have that black screen of wtf press Ctl+Alt+F3 like jofi upstairs said. It gives you an old school login.
Type: sudo mhwd --auto --force pci free 0300
(super user do|my hardware devices?|auto install|force the install|theconnection type|non proprietary|graphics card?)
Press enter, type password, press enter.
Reboot (for those unaware, itâs just ârebootâ and press enter)
That should do for most.
If not, and you need to uninstall the nvidia driverâŚ
Replace âautoâ with âremoveâ and âfreeâ with ânonfreeâ in the aforementioned line.
I have the same problem too. Nothing out of the ordinary with my install, havenât touched anything regarding the drivers beyond the normal system updates. Have an nvidia graphics card, stopped working this morning.
Itâs probably easier to use a Manjaro ISO instead of Ubuntu.
It definitely has got Timeshift available - Ubuntu might have it too, but I do not know.
You can also use this ISO to quite easily chroot (manjaro-chroot -a) into your system.
That is also possible with Ubuntu, but definitely not as easy.
From within chroot you can access the system logs (journalctl -b 0 is the command, I guess - not sure)
You can re-run the update:
pacman-mirrors -f
or pacman-mirrors -c germany (choose your country if you like)
and then: pacman -Syu
and also re-install the video driver if you still have to
(mhwd is the command line tool for that)
You also have a graphical environment and posting any log content is easier that way.
I do not have Nvidia hardware and cannot really help with that.