I am getting a black screen after the latest update. I saw that it is a common issue that many can face and I tried some of the steps that were suggested in other posts but nothing seem to work.
Can someone help me get my login screen back?
I am getting a black screen after the latest update. I saw that it is a common issue that many can face and I tried some of the steps that were suggested in other posts but nothing seem to work.
Can someone help me get my login screen back?
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How do you expect someone to provide with good information if all he is seeing is a black screen?
ctrl+alt+fn+f2
to get to tty2 and login there and edit here the output of inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width
I had the same problem.
I solved it by downgrading xorg-server
to get to terminal:
ctrl+alt+f2
to check your xorg-server cached previous versions:
ls /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xorg-server* (donāt forget about ā*ā)
to roll back:
sudo pacman -U path_to_wanted_package_to_downgrade (itās to be one of previous cached versions)
if it wonāt help, get all your upgrades list:
grep -i upgraded /var/log/pacman.log
and try another packages in the same way
This is unsupported behavior and likely the wrong answer.
Hi,
Same here. Everything worked last night and today Iām getting some black screen with a cursor that loops all over. Timeshifted back before the last upgrade and no problem. However, once the system is back and I update it it goes back again into the loop. Changed the boot to splash and grub menu to be visible to see whatās wrong. The last upgrade with kernel and nvidia drivers was alright but I donāt remember having another update last night.
edit: it seems that the Optimus Manager is the guilty party here and update from 1.4-1 to 1.4-3.
check this post - Latest update to optimus-manager broke my GUI
optimus-manager causes many issues (thanks cscs for edit)
ftfy
Why itās unsupported?
Neither downgrades nor a system in a state of āpartial-upgradeā are supported.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_maintenance#Partial_upgrades_are_unsupported
https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/System_Maintenance#Avoiding_Partial_Updates
If you are a user advanced enough to handle these things and recognize them as a stop-gap and will manage them properly ā¦ well OK ā¦ thats a benefit of being empowered. But its also simply not how the system is supposed to work, and you should expect extra overhead both to enact this change and also to stay healthy after doing so.
Iām not advanced, I know almost nothing.
If I know that the cause of my problem (- sudden black screen with flashing underscore) is the last upgrade of xorg-server, how can I manage this situation to not to kill the system?
Is it true that if now I donāt upgrade anything in the system and I donāt install anything new at all until the problem of partial upgrading is solved, my manjaro is not gonna die, isnāt it?
Of course if your system is running, and continues running ā¦ nothing is going to magically change that.
There are rare cases where maybe something like you describe makes sense ā¦ but only in those cases, it is unsupported, and it by its very nature requires extra management to even be in the situation the first place, let alone going forward.
So ā¦ if it works for you ā¦ then ā¦ keep it this way and check on updates and keep a backup handy ā¦ but I also wonder if maybe there is an underlying issue that should be resolved insteadā¦
there were no problems at all last night,
then I checked for updates,
there were a lot of them
I started updates, it took more time than usual (there was a heavy kernel update too)
after it ended it asked for restart
after restart computer had been booting for much more time than usual
but eventually desktop shown up (I was so glad itās not dead)
maybe 5-7 minutes of work lasted and this black screen with flashing underscore arose
any further attempts to restart the system ended with stuck on āfilesā¦ blocksā¦ā black screen
then I tried to roll back some of last upgrades
kernel - itās not worked, I upgraded it back
qt5-base - itās not worked, I upgraded it back
filesystem - itās not worked, I upgraded it back
when I downgraded xorg-server desktop came to life
I updated the system on Thursday night, rebooted and it worked on Friday morning and evening with kernel 5.15.7-1. I think the Optimus Manager was a separate update and I probably updated it last night(canāt remember it was a tough one) hence the black screen this morning.
I just wanted to share one thing. I replied to the comment made by @admdb .
It is okay to give suggestions to someone but I donāt think it is a good practice to remove your comment. Newer people might get some good ideas on how to reply to forum posts.
and If some mod removed @admdbās comment, then I would suggest āundeletingā his comment. That way, everyone else will have a better understanding
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