Hi, after updating to the February release, when I restart I find myself with a black screen and a flashing cursor.
sorry, I use the online translator
Hello and welcome to the Manjaro Community!
First thing I’d suggest: I’d try pressing E when the GRUB menu appears (if it doesn’t, try spamming the SHIFT key immediately after POST (after power-on)).
There, remove the “quiet” and “splash” from the GRUB cmdline; you should at least see messages during boot to see where it gets stuck. CTRL + X or (I think) F10 to boot.
This is not persistent; if it helps it can be changed in /etc/default/grub.
Can you access a TTY from the “stuck” state? e.g. CTRL + ALT + F4 etc.?
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Thanks @BG405, removing “quiet splash” from grub the operating system starts to load but stops at the line " [OK] Started CUPS Scheduler"
I also tried from tty2 but it always gives me an error, I have several images of these attempts but I can’t load them I don’t have permission.
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What error?
… there is seven TTY’s by default
CTRL + ALT + F1 through 7 (or 6)
It appears that your system starts but the GUI doesn’t.
Can you log in at all?
… which goes back to:
… which error?
no images, please - you can post the messages as copy /pasted text
You just need to format them properly - see the top row of the editor window here
or use an online pastebin service and post the link to the pictures here
Yes from tty2 I logged in to the terminal, I don’t know if I’m using the right words to explain
I tried to post links to images but it tells me I don’t have permission
If you add a ` (backtick) before and after the link, this will format it such that people can copy and paste it. 
Thanks
https://postimg.cc/n9x7R2KX
https://postimg.cc/JsFp6wst
https://postimg.cc/S26VxJDz
the NVIDIA kernel module failed to load
… unfinished update?
I don’t know - the system works - just the GUI doesn’t.
I don’t have NVIDIA and do not know about it beyond what I get to read about it - I do not own or use one of these.
Updates without problems until the reboot request.
I can add that I have put among the ignored the update of the 2 kernels that I installed in manjaro, and everything seemed to be going smoothly.
I struggle to parse this - what I get from it is probably wrong.
If I read your post correctly:
Holding back kernels is not a good idea as newer packages may have issues; it also puts your system in to an unsupported state.
My recommendation is to keep a couple of LTS kernels (and keep them maintained).
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Yes I have 2 LTS kernels installed but I excluded them from this latest update.
For fear that my USB WIFI driver is no longer compatible with new Kernel versions
That driver is either included in the kernel - in case of LTS Kernels that should not be a problem.
Or it is a driver from AUR - which needs to be recompiled with every kernel change in any case.
there is no way around it in any case.
Fear is not a good advisor re making good rational decisions.
If you fear these kind of things - you should not be using Manjaro. 
because you can’t refuse the change for very long - by design
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Then that is why we are here.
Partial upgrades are not supported and are equal to a broken system.
In this case quite obviously.
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Ok thanks for the information 
if it can help these are the Xorg logs:
https://www.zerobin.net/?233c7947cff0200a#m9EDGY2wzLmTy1c5zy8YSg+mGiL+swWXPugWULn17KA=
https://www.zerobin.net/?2dc1fc2ebcf34766#3DyoejuK1M5MEBmwmZEeEVBqTwmEsLeIz1fh8V361nQ=
I can try to give the command “sudo pacman -Syyu” from tty?
A single y should suffice;
sudo pacman -Syu
PS
Is unmaintained and not recommended for use.
https://github.com/PrivateBin/PrivateBin/wiki/FAQ#should-i-switch-from-zerobin-to-privatebin
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no errors in the first log
in the second log the errors are related to Nvidia - which is almost expected when your kernel is not up to date
OK I learned something
thank you all