I naively ran a big update (pacman -Syyu) on my Manjaro Linux PC after about 3 years of not using it. What can I say… I have become rusty, and should have expected something to go wrong there.
When I boot now, after the GRUB menu I am shown the following:
Starting version 251.2-3-manjaro
[FAILED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules
[FAILED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules
[FAILED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules
And then nothing.
I am able to Ctrl+Alt+F2 to a tty and log in there, but I am at a loss on how to diagnose the issue.
Eventually I will do a clean install. But for right now, if someone could help me through the steps to solve this, you would really help me out of a bind. Please let me know what information you need.
Unfortunately a fresh install would be difficult until this problem is fixed, because I no longer have a live USB drive. I cannot create one on my work MacBook, because mass USB storage devices are disabled on it.
When you have access to the console, installing a LTS kernel and seeing if this will boot some gui
sudo mhwd-kernel --listinstalled Will show installed kernels. sudo mhwd-kernel --list will show available kernels sudo mhwd-kernel --install linux510 will install a supported LTS kernel
I had 419 installed. After installing 510, I am still shown the “Starting version …” line, but no error messages this time. Then it goes to the black screen (with blinking _ cursor). Still, no GUI is loading.