Hello, I tried installing Manjaro GNOME yesterday, and everything went perfectly until I tried logging in. When I login to Manjaro, it just shows a 100% black screen and no cursor. Can anyone help?
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Hello @yozora and welcome
There are people here who could/would help, but in community support you have to provide information, otherwise we just end up in the realm of speculation. That doesnât help anyone.
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Strong of its many members, the Manjaro support forum can provide you help whenever you have an issue with your Manjaro installation. But in order to work efficiently, we shall also ask you to follow three major points.
Original author on old forum @AlManja
If you are stuck and you canât log into your system, use one of these steps below. They are sorted from easiest at the top. Start with the first step and if it doesnât work, try with the next one and so onâŚ
Once you get access to the system, then proceed with updating the system or installing/removing packages, checking log files⌠Steps (you only need one) are:
log to tty terminal
boot without X
chroot auto (with manjaro-chroot)
chroot (with manjaro-chroâŚ
Such situation can appear for any number of reasons.
The most likely reason is the graphics driver has not loaded, thus the display manager (login screen) doesnât start
This is why you get a âblack screenâ or stuck with a line like this
[OK] Started ....
The main reason is usually an incorrect driver version for the kernel.
To fully understand why this can happen one needs to understand how the package manager handles packages.
This can happen when the mirror you are updating from is notâŚ
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