Manjaro stuck at boot

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Guys, after the recent updates, I got my manjaro installation to get stuck at the boot screen. It just doesn’t make it to the Login screen, or I think it can’t be loaded.
I read several threads in this forum but I can’t seem to find the right answer to my problem.
I managed to get into my manjaro installation by logging in with TTY and using the command “startx”, but I have no idea how to solve this.
I’ve even tried to re-install it and the issue seemed to be fixed but then it got stuck again.

System:
  Kernel: 5.10.30-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64 
  root=UUID=afbbf05d-fef5-42a1-b677-22325f3535c2 rw quiet splash apparmor=1 
  security=apparmor resume=UUID=412a1d53-1d96-4981-ad98-32dd824eb99d 
  udev.log_priority=3 
  Desktop: GNOME 3.38.4 tk: GTK 3.24.28 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM 40.0 
  Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Timi product: TM1701 v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis: 
  type: 10 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Timi model: TM1701 v: MP serial: <filter> UEFI: INSYDE 
  v: XMAKB5R0P0E07 date: 09/11/2020 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 36.4 Wh (80.9%) condition: 45.0/60.0 Wh (74.9%) 
  volts: 8.1 min: 7.6 model: SUNWODA R15B01W type: Li-ion serial: <filter> 
  status: Discharging 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 15.52 GiB used: 2 GiB (12.9%) 
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-8550U bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Kaby Lake note: check family: 6 model-id: 8E (142) stepping: A (10) 
  microcode: E0 cache: L2: 8 MiB bogomips: 31999 
  Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 400/4000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 
  4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon art 
  avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid 
  cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept ept_ad erms est 
  f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht hwp hwp_act_window 
  hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs ida intel_pt invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm 
  mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe mpx msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat 
  pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts 
  rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep smap smep ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 
  sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust 
  tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt 
  xsaves xtopology xtpr 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
  Type: l1tf 
  mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable 
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
  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 generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, 
  IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 620 vendor: Xiaomi driver: i915 v: kernel 
  bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:5917 class-ID: 0300 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP108M [GeForce MX150] vendor: Xiaomi Mi Notebook Pro 
  driver: nvidia v: 460.67 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 01:00.0 
  chip-ID: 10de:1d12 class-ID: 0302 
  Device-3: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) XiaoMi USB 2.0 Webcam 
  type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-6:3 chip-ID: 05c8:03b7 class-ID: 0e02 
  Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.11 compositor: gnome-shell driver: 
  loaded: modesetting,nvidia alternate: fbdev,intel,nouveau,nv,vesa 
  resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo> 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.0.2 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Xiaomi 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl bus-ID: 00:1f.3 
  chip-ID: 8086:9d71 class-ID: 0403 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.30-1-MANJARO running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no 
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.25 running: yes 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wireless 8265 / 8275 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: 3000 
  bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:24fd class-ID: 0280 
  IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: global broadcast: <filter> 
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link 
  WAN IP: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 
  bus-ID: 1-5:2 chip-ID: 8087:0a2b class-ID: e001 
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: see --recommends 
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found. 
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found. 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 471.36 GiB used: 12.75 GiB (2.7%) 
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung model: MZVLB256HAHQ-00000 
  size: 238.47 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s 
  lanes: 4 rotation: SSD serial: <filter> rev: EXD7101Q temp: 28.9 C 
  scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital 
  model: WDS250G2B0B-00YS70 size: 232.89 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B 
  logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 00WD 
  scheme: GPT 
  Message: No optical or floppy data found. 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 215.52 GiB size: 211.08 GiB (97.94%) 
  used: 12.75 GiB (6.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 label: N/A 
  uuid: afbbf05d-fef5-42a1-b677-22325f3535c2 
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%) 
  used: 296 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: NO_LABEL 
  uuid: 516A-AD6C 
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 17.07 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
  dev: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 label: N/A 
  uuid: 412a1d53-1d96-4981-ad98-32dd824eb99d 
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 size: 100 MiB fs: vfat label: N/A 
  uuid: 2AC4-47CB 
  ID-2: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 size: 16 MiB fs: <superuser required> 
  label: N/A uuid: N/A 
  ID-3: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 size: 237.86 GiB fs: ntfs label: N/A 
  uuid: EE00C52300C4F39D 
  ID-4: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4 size: 511 MiB fs: ntfs label: N/A 
  uuid: F4982B02982AC2CA 
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 12 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 1-5:2 info: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: Bluetooth 
  driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA 
  chip-ID: 8087:0a2b class-ID: e001 
  Device-2: 1-6:3 
  info: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) XiaoMi USB 2.0 Webcam 
  type: Video driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
  power: 500mA chip-ID: 05c8:03b7 class-ID: 0e02 
  Device-3: 1-7:4 info: Realtek RTS5129 Card Reader Controller 
  type: <vendor specific> driver: rtsx_usb,rtsx_usb_ms,rtsx_usb_sdmmc 
  interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 0bda:0129 
  class-ID: ff00 serial: <filter> 
  Device-4: 1-8:5 info: Elan Micro ELAN:Fingerprint type: <vendor specific> 
  driver: N/A interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA 
  chip-ID: 04f3:0c1a class-ID: 0000 
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 41.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 269 Uptime: 14m wakeups: 135 Init: systemd v: 247 tool: systemctl 
  Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: 1261 pacman: 1254 lib: 319 flatpak: 0 
  snap: 7 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.04```
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  1. What did you do after you did a fresh install?

  2. what’s the output of:

    journalctl --priority=3 | tail --lines:30

before you execute startx ???

:thinking:

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I have a similar issue I posted a few days ago. It seem to work for a day but now back to square one. I’m considering to Install KDE and see what happens however I will stay with Gnome watch the forums and keep an eye on updates for a little while see if there is a fix. I though this was an AMD64 bug but now I see that you have Intel/NVIDIA GPU which gives me hope the more people having the issues the quicker the fix will be. For now just using the rollback before the last update that seem to work.

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I too have this problem after the recent update. I used Timeshift to restore a snapshot.

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I “solved it” by removing the quiet splash from the grub configuration file… Now Manjaro boots up with the verbose mode, but at least it boots up. I think that problems like this are related to the intel-nvidia drivers. In fact it seemed to work when I configured the nvidia prime drivers as described here [[HowTo] Set up PRIME (output offload) with NVIDIA proprietary driver - Tutorials - Manjaro Linux Forum] but after a couple of restarts it got stuck at the boot screen again.
However I read somewhere to try to disable the quiet splash and it worked for me.
Hope this can be useful to people who have the same issue.

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