My system has a habit of booting to a black screen

I have Manjaro KDE installed on my laptop’s NVMe SSD (Windows 10 is my primary system, installed on embedded storage); but from time to time, my Manjaro boots to a black screen, with only the cursor showing, and I am forced to restart the system. How do I stop Manjaro from booting to a black screen, other than having to erase the drive and reinstall?

https://forum.manjaro.org/search?q=boots%20to%20a%20black%20screen

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There’s a program in the repos called manjaro logs helper that makes it simple to read/upload logs. If you can upload the boot log from when you get a black screen (you can easily get previous boot log) then hopefully someone can find out whats going on

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Other Manjaro KDE users have reported similar issues
https://forum.manjaro.org/search?q=kde%20boot%20black%20screen
One of the solutions in those posts might work for you

Interesting. I was under the impression that my situation was extremely rare before I read all this.

Do they have a solution for a keyboard that becomes responsive even after logging on? I’ve had that situation as well and I assume the next upgrade (either the OS itself or the next Linux kernel) will fix it.

Forum has 22 results accepted as solved for “keyboard unresponsive”
https://forum.manjaro.org/search?q=keyboard%20unresponsive%20status:solved

Windows 10 is my primary system…
…from time to time, my Manjaro boots to a black screen

Check that Fast Startup (hybrid hibernation) is disabled on primary OS

How to disable Windows 10 fast startup (and why you'd want to) | Windows Central

Linux users will likely see complications with dual boot and virtualization

Changed the topic title - it is your system which has issues - not Manjaro in general.

Quite probably unlikely. It started after I upgraded the Linux kernel barely 3 weeks ago. I imagine I’d have to downgrade, then upgrade again, as a first step to removing the problem.