after spending another night, I was able to log in under my account, doing the following:
- boot
- CTRL + ALT + F3 (text console)
- log in as root (my user simply don’t works as expected, saying “command not found” for any command)
- sudo su xxx, where xxx is my user
- startx
startx loads the environment, however with weird fonts and some UI bugs, but still it works.
I tried to analyze logs
journalctl -p 3 -xb
-- Reboot --
Nov 09 00:44:34 maks systemd-modules-load[292]: Failed to find module 'platform-integrity'
Nov 09 00:44:34 maks systemd-udevd[365]: could not read from '/sys/module/fjes/initstate': No such device
Nov 09 00:44:35 maks kernel: psmouse serio1: elantech: elantech_send_cmd query 0x02 failed.
Nov 09 00:44:35 maks kernel: psmouse serio1: elantech: failed to query capabilities.
Nov 09 00:44:41 maks wpa_supplicant[1205]: nl80211: kernel reports: Attribute failed policy validation
Nov 09 00:44:41 maks wpa_supplicant[1205]: Failed to create interface p2p-dev-wlp0s20f3: -22 (Invalid argument)
Nov 09 00:44:41 maks wpa_supplicant[1205]: nl80211: Failed to create a P2P Device interface p2p-dev-wlp0s20f3
Nov 09 00:44:43 maks kernel: snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: No response from codec, resetting bus: last cmd=0x01770740
Nov 09 00:44:47 maks kernel: ucsi_acpi USBC000:00: unknown error 0
Nov 09 00:44:47 maks kernel: ucsi_acpi USBC000:00: UCSI_GET_PDOS failed (-5)
Nov 09 00:45:07 maks kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Asking for cache data failed
Nov 09 00:45:07 maks kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
and
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE
[ 23.100] Current Operating System: Linux maks 5.8.18-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Nov 1 14:10:04 UTC 2020 x86_64
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[ 24.381] (EE) Failed to load module "intel" (module does not exist, 0)
[ 24.381] (EE) Failed to load module "nouveau" (module does not exist, 0)
[ 24.381] (EE) Failed to load module "nv" (module does not exist, 0)
[ 24.381] (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
[ 24.382] (EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist, 0)
[ 25.054] (II) Initializing extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
[ 25.658] (EE) libinput: DELL097D:00 04F3:311C Touchpad: Failed to create a device for /dev/input/mouse1
[ 25.658] (EE) PreInit returned 2 for "DELL097D:00 04F3:311C Touchpad"
[ 26.016] (EE) Failed to open authorization file "/var/run/sddm/{ae5e5776-cbe0-4077-bafa-68eba3dc8922}": No such file or directory
Interesting, that I have the same errors even when logged in under root, so I don’t think it’s the root of the issue with freezing login page.
I have also successfully reinstalled nvidia driver for the latest recommended one - but it didn’t help.
So still looking forward to some help with debugging the issue, at least how to get an error message…