Live Manjaro 21.2rc1 KDE Plasma stuck at 'Reached Target Graphical Interface'

I have been using Debian distros for awhile and I find that I have become comfortable with it. However, I wanted to try an Arch based distro. Unfortunately, I’m stuck when booting into a live cd at ‘Reached Target Graphical Interface’. I have been crawling the internet trying to find a solution. I was hoping you guys can help.

Current setup:

Motherboard: Gigabyte X570 I AORUS PRO Wifi (Rev. 1.0)

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X

GPU: Powercolor Liquid Devil RX 5700 XT *GB Graphics Card

Storage: Sabrent 2TB Rocket nvme PCIe 4.0 m.2

RAM: G.Skill Trident Z Royal Series 32GB DDR4 SDRAM

What I have attempted so far:

  • Currently I have Pop!_os installed with CSM enabled with both UEFI on storage and PCI.

  • I have attempted these settings as well as legacy (prefer not to have legacy boot options).

  • I do have to set the parameter ‘nomodeset’ or I get a black screen

  • I have tried setting radeon.modeset = 0

  • I have tried replacing the ‘quiet’ with acpi_osi=! and acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=“Windows 2015” (and 2009)

  • I have tried alt + F2 sudo mhwd -a pci free (and nonfree) 0300

I’m out of ideas I can’t get this thing to boot. I have an Asus Zenbook s that it boots just fine on. I would pull the Drive and install Manjaro using the laptop then swapping it over. I just don’t know what that will do with the difference in hardware and that just ‘bandaids’ the issue.

Any help would be appreciated.


System:
  Kernel: 5.15.8-76051508-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0 
  parameters: initrd=\EFI\Pop_OS-9ba11f21-868f-4c05-a56d-ae34295be48f\initrd.img 
  root=UUID=9ba11f21-868f-4c05-a56d-ae34295be48f ro quiet loglevel=0 
  systemd.show_status=false splash 
  Desktop: GNOME 40.5 tk: GTK 3.24.30 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM3 41.rc 
  Distro: Pop!_OS 21.10 base: Ubuntu Impish 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: X570 I AORUS PRO WIFI v: -CF 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Gigabyte model: X570 I AORUS PRO WIFI serial: <filter> 
  UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: F35d date: 10/13/2021 
Battery:
  Message: No system battery data found. Is one present? 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 31.34 GiB used: 8.5 GiB (27.1%) 
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Info: 12-Core model: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2 
  family: 17 (23) model-id: 71 (113) stepping: 0 microcode: 8701021 cache: 
  L2: 6 MiB bogomips: 182066 
  Speed: 2120 MHz min/max: 2200/3800 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 
  1: 2120 2: 2191 3: 2196 4: 2103 5: 2053 6: 2190 7: 3438 8: 2196 9: 2193 
  10: 2195 11: 2946 12: 2059 13: 2508 14: 3288 15: 2196 16: 2196 17: 2196 
  18: 2196 19: 2191 20: 2195 21: 3592 22: 2053 23: 3525 24: 2196 
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2 bmi1 
  bmi2 bpext cat_l3 cdp_l3 clflush clflushopt clwb clzero cmov cmp_legacy 
  constant_tsc cpb cpuid cqm cqm_llc cqm_mbm_local cqm_mbm_total cqm_occup_llc 
  cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de decodeassists extapic extd_apicid f16c flushbyasid 
  fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibpb ibs irperf lahf_lm lbrv lm 
  mba mca mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor movbe msr mtrr mwaitx nonstop_tsc 
  nopl npt nrip_save nx osvw overflow_recov pae pat pausefilter pclmulqdq 
  pdpe1gb perfctr_core perfctr_llc perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pni popcnt pse 
  pse36 rapl rdpid rdpru rdrand rdseed rdt_a rdtscp rep_good sep sev sev_es 
  sha_ni skinit smap smca sme smep ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 
  stibp succor svm svm_lock syscall tce topoext tsc tsc_scale umip v_spec_ctrl 
  v_vmsave_vmload vgif vmcb_clean vme vmmcall wbnoinvd wdt xgetbv1 xsave 
  xsavec xsaveerptr xsaveopt xsaves 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected 
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
  Type: mds status: Not affected 
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: 
  conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds status: Not affected 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Navi 10 [Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 XT] 
  vendor: Tul driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 0b:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:731f 
  class-ID: 0300 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 compositor: gnome-shell driver: 
  loaded: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,radeon,vesa display-ID: :1 
  screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1016x285mm (40.0x11.2") 
  s-diag: 1055mm (41.5") 
  Monitor-1: DisplayPort-0 res: 3840x1080 dpi: 81 
  size: 1200x340mm (47.2x13.4") diag: 1247mm (49.1") 
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary (NAVI10 DRM 3.42.0 
  5.15.8-76051508-generic LLVM 12.0.1) 
  v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.2 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Navi 10 HDMI Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
  bus-ID: 0b:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab38 class-ID: 0403 
  Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 0d:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487 
  class-ID: 0403 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.8-76051508-generic running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no 
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.42 running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel I211 Gigabit Network vendor: Gigabyte driver: igb v: kernel 
  port: f000 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:1539 class-ID: 0200 
  IF: enp4s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  broadcast: <filter> 
  IP v6: <filter> type: temporary dynamic scope: global 
  IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic mngtmpaddr noprefixroute scope: global 
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link 
  Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: f000 
  bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2723 class-ID: 0280 
  IF: wlp5s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  IF-ID-1: virbr0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter> 
  WAN IP: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-2:3 
  chip-ID: 8087:0029 class-ID: e001 
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 3.0 
  lmp-v: 5.2 sub-v: 27a4 hci-v: 5.2 rev: 27a4 
  Info: acl-mtu: 1021:4 sco-mtu: 96:6 link-policy: rswitch sniff 
  link-mode: slave accept 
  service-classes: rendering, capturing, object transfer, audio, telephony 
Logical:
  Message: Unable to run lvs. Root privileges required. 
  Device-1: cryptswap maj-min: 253:2 type: Crypto dm: dm-2 size: 4 GiB 
  Components: 
  p-1: nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4 size: 4 GiB 
  Device-2: cryptdata maj-min: 253:0 type: LUKS dm: dm-0 size: 1.81 TiB 
  Components: 
  p-1: nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 size: 1.81 TiB 
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found. 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.93 TiB used: 379.82 GiB (19.2%) 
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Sabrent model: Rocket 4.0 2TB 
  size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s 
  lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: RKT401.2 temp: 45.9 C scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 type: USB vendor: Kingston 
  model: DataTraveler 3.0 size: 115.5 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B 
  logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: PMAP scheme: MBR 
  Message: No optical or floppy data found. 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 1.81 TiB size: 1.78 TiB (98.37%) used: 376.71 GiB (20.6%) 
  fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-1 maj-min: 253:1 mapped: data-root label: N/A 
  uuid: N/A 
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 498 MiB size: 497 MiB (99.80%) 
  used: 232 MiB (46.7%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 label: N/A 
  uuid: 19F1-B264 
  ID-3: /recovery raw-size: 4 GiB size: 3.99 GiB (99.80%) 
  used: 2.89 GiB (72.4%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 
  label: N/A uuid: 19F1-B262 
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 4 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
  dev: /dev/dm-2 maj-min: 253:2 mapped: cryptswap label: cryptswap 
  uuid: 131dfced-559f-4971-8a51-517421796e49 
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4 size: 4 GiB fs: swap label: N/A 
  uuid: 149fd345-0859-49fa-b0c4-c72ae409ac74 
  ID-2: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 115.5 GiB fs: <superuser required> 
  label: N/A uuid: N/A 
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 1-1:2 info: Integrated Express IT8297 RGB LED Controller 
  type: Keyboard driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 048d:8297 class-ID: 0301 
  Device-2: 1-2:3 info: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: Bluetooth driver: btusb 
  interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 8087:0029 
  class-ID: e001 
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-5: 5-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 5-1:2 info: SteelSeries ApS SteelSeries QCK Prism Cloth type: HID 
  driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s 
  power: 350mA chip-ID: 1038:150d class-ID: 0300 
  Device-2: 5-2:8 info: SteelSeries ApS SteelSeries Aerox 3 type: Mouse,HID 
  driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s 
  power: 400mA chip-ID: 1038:1836 class-ID: 0300 
  Device-3: 5-3:4 info: SteelSeries ApS SteelSeries Apex 7 TKL 
  type: Keyboard,HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 5 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 12 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 1038:1618 class-ID: 0300 
  Device-4: 5-4:7 info: Kingston DataTraveler 100 G3/G4/SE9 G2/50 
  type: Mass Storage driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 2.1 
  speed: 480 Mb/s power: 300mA chip-ID: 0951:1666 class-ID: 0806 
  serial: <filter> 
  Hub-6: 6-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 43.0 C mobo: 16.8 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 30.0 C 
  mem: 32.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 65535 
Info:
  Processes: 581 Uptime: 6h 3m wakeups: 2 Init: systemd v: 248 runlevel: 5 
  tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.2.0 alt: 11 Packages: 2241 apt: 2225 
  lib: 1230 flatpak: 9 snap: 7 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.8 running-in: gnome-terminal 
  inxi: 3.3.06 

hello
you can save your profile for legacy in your Profile UEFI ,
and create one for linux

  • secure boot off
  • csm off ( be careful one is on cpu , other on boot )
  • all disks on AHCI

you don’t need to change something on boot ( live Iso USB )
also new version for iso is here

maybe try other DE , if there is trouble with kwin ( KDE ) for instance

Thank you for your reply. I double checked my settings in BIOS. Booting the live usb without -nomodeset’ results in no video output and with nomodeset results in the same issue.

  • csm = disabled
  • secureboot = disabled
  • drives = ACHI
  • Im on the latest version from manjaro.org

You think might be related to KDE?

What kernel do you use ?

Have you already searched the forum ?

Provide Information:

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Andreas85,

The Kernel is 5.15.6. I have done additional testing since my reply to stephane with different DE and distros.

  • Manjaro XFCE - Stuck at reached targert graphical interface.
  • Manjaro Gnome - Stuck at reached target graphical interface with the screen flickering.
  • Tried MX linux with KDE - booted fine
  • Tried Endevour OS - fails and references xorg-server 1.21.1.2 terminating with error code 1.

It seems that any Arch based distro I can not get a live usb to boot. All Debian based ones I can as long as I add nomodeset.

Is there a different setting that Arch doesn’t support that Debian might?

Also, as mentioned I do have a Zenbook S that I have manjaro on. I tried to put its M.2 Drive in my desktop and boot with Kernel 5.15.7. It would bring up the decryption prompt (LUKS?) but after decrypting the drive I get a black screen with no cursor.

Something about my desktop rig and Arch is not playing nice together. I just don’t know what that might be.

I did attempt to build my own iso. I keep getting a ==> Error: A failure occured in make_image_desktop( ). Aborting…

This seems to be going down another rabbit hole full of dead ends. It has to be graphics card related. When I booted the iso’s on my VM’s the ‘reached target graphical interface’ was the last thing to load before the GUI.

EDIT: I took a break from this and came back to it after the holiday. I was able to build an ISO with the updated kernel successfully. Apparently I stupidly forgot to reboot the VM after updating the kernel. After which I was able to create the iso. Unfortunately, that did not work.

If you think its graphics I guess you can try

amdgpu.modeset=0 radeon.modeset=0

Thank you for your reply. I did try that already :worried:

I was thinking with what I learned from Andrea85’s post I would see if AMD makes a driver for Arch low and behold they do not. They make on for SUSE, Ubuntu (Debian), and Redhat. But I don’t see one for Arch based distro’s and I think this might be the problem. Debian distro’s work fine.

https://www.amd.com/en/support/previous-drivers/graphics/amd-radeon-5700-series/amd-radeon-rx-5700-series/amd-radeon-rx-5700-xt

amdgpu is the amd driver, is readily available, and your card has been supported for a while.
Above you have been blacklisting it along with just about every other module.
Why? Not sure, because we have no system information.

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I do apologize about that. I’m new to the forums. I have added my system information in the question.

Thank you.

In your inxi above it shows you are using amdgpu fine.

As to manjaro … I wonder, given the hardware, which ISO you were using and what kernel it had.

The iso I am using is the latest (you can get it from the download page now.). The iso is called by default ‘manjaro-kde-21.2rc1-211211-linux515.iso’ if that helps at all. I am able to get to the tty when I get stuck at ‘Reached Target Graphical Interface’. When I run uname -r I got 5.15.6 in tty. I did the update and build iso trick Andreas85 recommended which brought the kernel up to 5.15.7 in Manjaro. As you can see currently with Pop!_os I’m on 5.15.8.

This weird issue seems to be with any Arch based distro I attempt. But Debian distros work fine as long as I include ‘nomodeset’. I’m not sure if there is much of a difference or what the difference would be to cause this with only Arch.

I received a different Motherboard (Back from RMA). Experiencing the same issues with Stephane’s settings in BIOS. Here is the new inxi config

System:
  Kernel: 5.15.8-76051508-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0 
  parameters: initrd=\EFI\Pop_OS-9ba11f21-868f-4c05-a56d-ae34295be48f\initrd.img 
  root=UUID=9ba11f21-868f-4c05-a56d-ae34295be48f ro quiet loglevel=0 
  systemd.show_status=false splash 
  Desktop: GNOME 40.5 tk: GTK 3.24.30 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM3 41.rc 
  Distro: Pop!_OS 21.10 base: Ubuntu Impish 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: X570 I AORUS PRO WIFI v: -CF 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Gigabyte model: X570 I AORUS PRO WIFI serial: <filter> 
  UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: F35d date: 10/13/2021 
Battery:
  Message: No system battery data found. Is one present? 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 31.34 GiB used: 8.5 GiB (27.1%) 
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Info: 12-Core model: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2 
  family: 17 (23) model-id: 71 (113) stepping: 0 microcode: 8701021 cache: 
  L2: 6 MiB bogomips: 182066 
  Speed: 2120 MHz min/max: 2200/3800 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 
  1: 2120 2: 2191 3: 2196 4: 2103 5: 2053 6: 2190 7: 3438 8: 2196 9: 2193 
  10: 2195 11: 2946 12: 2059 13: 2508 14: 3288 15: 2196 16: 2196 17: 2196 
  18: 2196 19: 2191 20: 2195 21: 3592 22: 2053 23: 3525 24: 2196 
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2 bmi1 
  bmi2 bpext cat_l3 cdp_l3 clflush clflushopt clwb clzero cmov cmp_legacy 
  constant_tsc cpb cpuid cqm cqm_llc cqm_mbm_local cqm_mbm_total cqm_occup_llc 
  cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de decodeassists extapic extd_apicid f16c flushbyasid 
  fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibpb ibs irperf lahf_lm lbrv lm 
  mba mca mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor movbe msr mtrr mwaitx nonstop_tsc 
  nopl npt nrip_save nx osvw overflow_recov pae pat pausefilter pclmulqdq 
  pdpe1gb perfctr_core perfctr_llc perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pni popcnt pse 
  pse36 rapl rdpid rdpru rdrand rdseed rdt_a rdtscp rep_good sep sev sev_es 
  sha_ni skinit smap smca sme smep ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 
  stibp succor svm svm_lock syscall tce topoext tsc tsc_scale umip v_spec_ctrl 
  v_vmsave_vmload vgif vmcb_clean vme vmmcall wbnoinvd wdt xgetbv1 xsave 
  xsavec xsaveerptr xsaveopt xsaves 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected 
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
  Type: mds status: Not affected 
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: 
  conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds status: Not affected 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Navi 10 [Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 XT] 
  vendor: Tul driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 0b:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:731f 
  class-ID: 0300 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 compositor: gnome-shell driver: 
  loaded: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,radeon,vesa display-ID: :1 
  screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1016x285mm (40.0x11.2") 
  s-diag: 1055mm (41.5") 
  Monitor-1: DisplayPort-0 res: 3840x1080 dpi: 81 
  size: 1200x340mm (47.2x13.4") diag: 1247mm (49.1") 
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary (NAVI10 DRM 3.42.0 
  5.15.8-76051508-generic LLVM 12.0.1) 
  v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.2 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Navi 10 HDMI Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
  bus-ID: 0b:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab38 class-ID: 0403 
  Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 0d:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487 
  class-ID: 0403 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.8-76051508-generic running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no 
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.42 running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel I211 Gigabit Network vendor: Gigabyte driver: igb v: kernel 
  port: f000 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:1539 class-ID: 0200 
  IF: enp4s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  broadcast: <filter> 
  IP v6: <filter> type: temporary dynamic scope: global 
  IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic mngtmpaddr noprefixroute scope: global 
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link 
  Device-2: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: f000 
  bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2723 class-ID: 0280 
  IF: wlp5s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  IF-ID-1: virbr0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter> 
  WAN IP: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-2:3 
  chip-ID: 8087:0029 class-ID: e001 
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 3.0 
  lmp-v: 5.2 sub-v: 27a4 hci-v: 5.2 rev: 27a4 
  Info: acl-mtu: 1021:4 sco-mtu: 96:6 link-policy: rswitch sniff 
  link-mode: slave accept 
  service-classes: rendering, capturing, object transfer, audio, telephony 
Logical:
  Message: Unable to run lvs. Root privileges required. 
  Device-1: cryptswap maj-min: 253:2 type: Crypto dm: dm-2 size: 4 GiB 
  Components: 
  p-1: nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4 size: 4 GiB 
  Device-2: cryptdata maj-min: 253:0 type: LUKS dm: dm-0 size: 1.81 TiB 
  Components: 
  p-1: nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 size: 1.81 TiB 
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found. 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.93 TiB used: 379.82 GiB (19.2%) 
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Sabrent model: Rocket 4.0 2TB 
  size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s 
  lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: RKT401.2 temp: 45.9 C scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 type: USB vendor: Kingston 
  model: DataTraveler 3.0 size: 115.5 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B 
  logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: PMAP scheme: MBR 
  Message: No optical or floppy data found. 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 1.81 TiB size: 1.78 TiB (98.37%) used: 376.71 GiB (20.6%) 
  fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-1 maj-min: 253:1 mapped: data-root label: N/A 
  uuid: N/A 
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 498 MiB size: 497 MiB (99.80%) 
  used: 232 MiB (46.7%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 label: N/A 
  uuid: 19F1-B264 
  ID-3: /recovery raw-size: 4 GiB size: 3.99 GiB (99.80%) 
  used: 2.89 GiB (72.4%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 
  label: N/A uuid: 19F1-B262 
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 4 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
  dev: /dev/dm-2 maj-min: 253:2 mapped: cryptswap label: cryptswap 
  uuid: 131dfced-559f-4971-8a51-517421796e49 
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4 size: 4 GiB fs: swap label: N/A 
  uuid: 149fd345-0859-49fa-b0c4-c72ae409ac74 
  ID-2: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 115.5 GiB fs: <superuser required> 
  label: N/A uuid: N/A 
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 1-1:2 info: Integrated Express IT8297 RGB LED Controller 
  type: Keyboard driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 048d:8297 class-ID: 0301 
  Device-2: 1-2:3 info: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: Bluetooth driver: btusb 
  interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 8087:0029 
  class-ID: e001 
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
  Hub-5: 5-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 5-1:2 info: SteelSeries ApS SteelSeries QCK Prism Cloth type: HID 
  driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s 
  power: 350mA chip-ID: 1038:150d class-ID: 0300 
  Device-2: 5-2:8 info: SteelSeries ApS SteelSeries Aerox 3 type: Mouse,HID 
  driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s 
  power: 400mA chip-ID: 1038:1836 class-ID: 0300 
  Device-3: 5-3:4 info: SteelSeries ApS SteelSeries Apex 7 TKL 
  type: Keyboard,HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 5 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 12 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 1038:1618 class-ID: 0300 
  Device-4: 5-4:7 info: Kingston DataTraveler 100 G3/G4/SE9 G2/50 
  type: Mass Storage driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 2.1 
  speed: 480 Mb/s power: 300mA chip-ID: 0951:1666 class-ID: 0806 
  serial: <filter> 
  Hub-6: 6-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 43.0 C mobo: 16.8 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 30.0 C 
  mem: 32.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 65535 
Info:
  Processes: 581 Uptime: 6h 3m wakeups: 2 Init: systemd v: 248 runlevel: 5 
  tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.2.0 alt: 11 Packages: 2241 apt: 2225 
  lib: 1230 flatpak: 9 snap: 7 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.8 running-in: gnome-terminal 
  inxi: 3.3.06 

The thing is i’m still getting stuck at the same point. I can run tty2 still and I’m no longer using the rc1 iso (looks like Manjaro updated their website with a newer one). Grabbed that hoping I could install it. No Luck. My gut is telling me its a compatibility with Arch and my GPU still.

there is many things on USB hub side
have you tried with only keyboard & mouse ?

also i use theses boot parameter

processor.max_cstate=5 rcu_nocbs=0_23 amd_iommu=on systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=true scsi_mod.use_blk_mq=1