Login screen freezes after enterting password (still works for root user)

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New Linux user
Manjaro stucks at login (freezes) as soon as login/username is filled in and “Enter” is pressed.
I have read this similar post from @borN_free
but I never used zsh, which was the problem for that user.

I have the same issue that when I log in to my user via tty it doesn´t recognize any bash commands. From root user, I ran chsh -s /bin/sh, and that allows me to use commands as my user in tty. But still doesn´t allow me to log in as user.

I have already tried updating the system running sudo pacman -Syu
I also tried logging in via startx, which is how I was able to login via root, but even if run startx from my user, it logs me in as root.

Would appreciate any help.

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Iv got an open support thread that’s the same Freezing just after login, new installation

I can’t offer any help I’m afraid as I’m still stuck with it myself, but at least it gives me some hope that it might be a bug in manjaro and not just my computer.

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Is your /home partition separate from the root partition? Then check if that home partition is not corrupted.

Try something like fsck /dev/sda1 in tty

If that’s okay, then check whether you can navigate to /home using tty

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thank you- I will check these.

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system ~]# fsck /dev/sda1
fsck de util-linux 2.36.2
e2fsck 1.46.2 (28-Feb-2021)
fsck.ext2: No existe el fichero o el directorio mientras se intentaba abrir /dev/sda1
¿Es posible que no exista el dispositivo?

[system ~]# fsck /dev/sda
fsck de util-linux 2.36.2
e2fsck 1.46.2 (28-Feb-2021)
fsck.ext2: No existe el fichero o el directorio mientras se intentaba abrir /dev/sda

[system ~]# fsck /dev/sda2
fsck de util-linux 2.36.2
e2fsck 1.46.2 (28-Feb-2021)
fsck.ext2: No existe el fichero o el directorio mientras se intentaba abrir /dev/sda2
¿Es posible que no exista el dispositivo?

[system ~]# su usr
[usr@system root]$ fsck /dev/sda1
fsck de util-linux 2.36.2
e2fsck 1.46.2 (28-Feb-2021)

fsck.ext2: No existe el fichero o el directorio mientras se intentaba abrir /dev/sda1
¿Es posible que no exista el dispositivo?
[usr@system root]$ fsck /dev/sda2
fsck de util-linux 2.36.2
e2fsck 1.46.2 (28-Feb-2021)
fsck.ext2: No existe el fichero o el directorio mientras se intentaba abrir /dev/sda2
¿Es posible que no exista el dispositivo?

The message is: <The file or directory does not exist while /dev/sda1 was attempting to be opened. Is it possible that the file doesn’t exist?>

[usr@system root]$ cd home
bash: cd: home: Permiso denegado
[usr@system root]$

I cannot navigate to /home “permission denied”
I can look up a tutorial to how to fix this, just don´t know where to begin. from reading lots of other posts on similar issues, I think I have a problem regarding ownership for my user?