Coming from a Windows background, when Manjaro said there were updates, I just installed them all without thinking. Now I can’t boot into Manjaro. I tried using sudo pacman -Syyu in the terminal before boot, with no success.
There was one other change I made before rebooting for the updates, and that was changing the time to rtc (because I need to dual boot to Windows, and the time was always displaying incorrectly, so not sure if this is the culprit; I used: timedatectl set-local-rtc 1)
Manjaro has been my daily driver since I installed it, so would love to get things up and running again! I’ve read that Nvidia driver updates can cause these types of issues, and I am using an Nvidia card, so.
Looks like you dont have your nvidia drivers installed.
I dont know how well yours performs on 495 … so we will start with 470 (and update first just in case) …
You are running an EOL kernel. Please switch to an LTS like 5.10 or (expected to be newest LTS) 5.15
Then repeat our things … full recipe below:
sudo mhwd-kernel -i linux510
systemctl reboot
### above will reboot of course
### tap Shift or Esc during boot to bring up grub menu and select 510 kernel
uname -a
### above will print current kernel to ensure you are in 510
sudo mhwd-kernel -r linux513
sudo pacman-mirrors -f && sudo pacman -Syyu
### to be extra extra sure before installing
sudo mhwd -f -i pci video-nvidia-470xx
systemctl reboot
Okay I’m back into the desktop, but I’m guessing I need to go through each of the nvidia drivers to see which ones my system supports and use the latest supported one?
For some reason my taskbar has vanished, and the start menu opens up in the top right corner of the screen too!
470 was latest until very recently … you can check just video-nvidia (which is 495) if you like … but the driver is known to be buggy even for supported cards.
This is odd. Also your inxi oddly doesnt show what desktop you are using, though this may be because it is from the dektop-less environment when you ran it. But I might say ‘reset’ your desktop settings in whatever way is pertinent to that DE … similarly, you can check creating a new user and seeing if that has any similar affects/bugs.
This is odd. Also your inxi oddly doesnt show what desktop you are using, though this may be because it is from the dektop-less environment when you ran it. But I might say ‘reset’ your desktop settings in whatever way is pertinent to that DE … similarly, you can check creating a new user and seeing if that has any similar affects/bugs.
Okay took a little longer than I thought. It locked me out of creating a user for some reason, and then it let me create one anyway!
The new user desktop is working as it should! How could I go about resetting?
edit: I’m now unable to remove the new user “Failed to remove user.” Thought it may be because it was still logged in, but it still doesn’t work after logging out on that user.
We can probably remove the new user with some commands … but all of this seems a bit wonky to me.
Sadly I dont think I have ever needed to reset XFCE, so I dont have a suggestion on hand … I think it keeps things in ~/.config.xfce4 and you should be able to copy defaults from gitlab or /etc/skel … I dont know of a good reset command.
I guess one thing I might also mention is checking your package and file integrity …
sudo pacman -Qk | grep -v '0 missing'
Honestly, the fact that you were in this situation (and missing drivers, etc), along with the subsequent issues, may indicate that. But most things are just a balance between effortVSoutcome … I doubt its unrecoverable - its just a question of how much effort is needed and if its worth it. We havent yet entirely discovered the core issues it seems.
