Can't boot since new update

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Hey guys!

So I have been using Manjaro for half a year now on VMware Player 16 without any problems. Today I update the virtual machine since I was behind for like a month. The update finished without errors and prompted me to a restart which I did, but the system never booted up again. I was trying to save the work that I had on it by using chroot from a live boot. I did a pacman mirror-list -f and an update. Also tried to update grub. Nothing worked so I gave up and tried reinstalling from a freshly downloaded ISO.

This didn’t go well either, when trying to live boot it always got hung up on “A start job is running for LiveMedia MHWD Script”. Again I tried a lot of stuff, spent a few hours on it. Changing “driver=free” to “driver=intel” worked, which is weird because my laptop can only use the nvidia gpu(it’s not a max-q). So after installing and trying to boot it, I am back to where I started: a black screen after the Manjaro loading screen.

I tried using an older version, I installed and booted version 19 without any problems.

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Welcome at the forum, @megaphag

Please post

inxi -Fazy
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I used live boot, this time with “driver=mesa”, then “manjaro-chroot -a”

12System:
  12Kernel 5.10.30-1-MANJARO x86_64 12bits 64 12compiler gcc 12v 10.2.0 
  12parameters BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-x86_64 lang=en_US keytable=us tz=UTC 
  misobasedir=manjaro misolabel=MANJARO_GNOME_2102 quiet systemd.show_status=1 
  driver=mesa nouveau.modeset=1 i915.modeset=1 radeon.modeset=1 
  12Console N/A 12wm gnome-shell 12Distro Manjaro Linux 12base Arch Linux 
12Machine:
  12Type Vmware 12System VMware 12product VMware Virtual Platform 12v N/A 
  12serial <filter> 12Chassis No Enclosure 12type 1 12serial N/A 
  12Mobo Intel 12model 440BX Desktop Reference Platform 12serial N/A 12BIOS Phoenix 
  12v 6.00 12date 07/22/2020 
12CPU:
  12Info 4x Single Core 12model Intel Core i7-8750H 12bits 64 12type SMP 
  12arch Kaby Lake 12note check 12family 6 12model-id 9E (158) 12stepping A (10) 
  12microcode B4 12cache 12L1 8 MiB 12L2 36 MiB 
  12flags avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 12bogomips 17663 
  12Speed 2208 MHz 12min/max N/A 12base/boost 2200/30000 12volts 3.3 V 
  12Core speeds (MHz) 121 2208 122 2208 123 2208 124 2208 
  12Vulnerabilities 12Type itlb_multihit 12status KVM: VMX unsupported 
  12Type l1tf 12mitigation PTE Inversion 
  12Type mds 12mitigation Clear CPU buffers; SMT Host state unknown 
  12Type meltdown 12mitigation PTI 
  12Type spec_store_bypass 
  12mitigation Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  12Type spectre_v1 
  12mitigation usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  12Type spectre_v2 12mitigation Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, 
  IBRS_FW, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
  12Type srbds 12status Unknown: Dependent on hypervisor status 
  12Type tsx_async_abort 12status Not affected 
12Graphics:
  12Device-1 VMware SVGA II Adapter 12driver vmwgfx 12v 2.18.0.0 12bus-ID 00:0f.0 
  12chip-ID 15ad:0405 12class-ID 0300 
  12Display 12server X.org 1.20.11 12compositor gnome-shell 12driver 12loaded vmwgfx 
  12note n/a (using device driver) 12unloaded modesetting 
  12alternate fbdev,vesa,vmware 12resolution <missing: xdpyinfo> 
  12Message Advanced graphics data unavailable for root. 
12Audio:
  12Device-1 Ensoniq ES1371/ES1373 / Creative Labs CT2518 12driver snd_ens1371 
  12v kernel 12bus-ID 02:02.0 12chip-ID 1274:1371 12class-ID 0401 
  12Sound Server-1 ALSA 12v k5.10.30-1-MANJARO 12running yes 
  12Sound Server-2 JACK 12v 0.125.0 12running no 
  12Sound Server-3 PulseAudio 12v 14.2 12running yes 
  12Sound Server-4 PipeWire 12v 0.3.25 12running no 
12Network:
  12Device-1 Intel 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI 12vendor VMware Virtual Machine 
  12type network bridge 12driver N/A 12modules i2c_piix4 12port 1060 12bus-ID 00:07.3 
  12chip-ID 8086:7113 12class-ID 0680 
  12Device-2 Intel 82545EM Gigabit Ethernet 
  12vendor VMware PRO/1000 MT Single Port 12driver e1000 12v kernel 12port 2000 
  12bus-ID 02:01.0 12chip-ID 8086:100f 12class-ID 0200 
  12IF ens33 12state up 12speed 1000 Mbps 12duplex full 12mac <filter> 
12Bluetooth:
  12Device-1 VMware Virtual Bluetooth Adapter 12type USB 12driver btusb 12v 0.8 
  12bus-ID 2-2.1:4 12chip-ID 0e0f:0008 12class-ID e001 12serial <filter> 
  12Report rfkill 12ID hci0 12rfk-id 0 12state up 12address see --recommends 
12Drives:
  12Local Storage 12total 32 GiB 12used 6.89 GiB (21.5%) 
  12SMART Message Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends 
  12ID-1 /dev/sda 12maj-min 8:0 12vendor VMware 12model Virtual S 12size 32 GiB 
  12block-size 12physical 512 B 12logical 512 B 12serial N/A 12rev 1.0 
12Partition:
  12ID-1 / 12raw-size 23.2 GiB 12size 22.66 GiB (97.71%) 12used 6.89 GiB (30.4%) 
  12fs ext4 12block-size 4096 B 12dev /dev/sda1 12maj-min 8:1 
12Swap:
  12Alert No swap data was found. 
12Sensors:
  12Message No sensor data found. Is lm-sensors configured? 
12Info:
  12Processes 251 12Uptime 1m 12wakeups 99 12Memory 7.74 GiB 12used 1.68 GiB (21.7%) 
  12Init systemd 12v 247 12tool systemctl 12Compilers 12gcc N/A 12Packages 12pacman 1114 
  12lib 283 12flatpak 0 12Client Unknown Client: systemd 12inxi 3.3.04
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megaphag, how did you generate that inxi report? Somehow the color codes weren’t removed, which can’t happen in any normal way of generating the data, redirect to file, > report.txt removes them, copying from terminal to file manually removes them, piping output removes them. Do you remember what you did there?

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  1. What’s the output of inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width in the working version?

  2. And you probably didn’t clone it first?

    • If you did, what’s the output of pamac upgrade?

  3. Officially, VMWare doesn’t support Arch distros, you are aware of that, right?

:grin: