Currently I can boot Manjaro (KDE) on my laptop only to this screen (after Grub):
Booting initramfs fallback also gets me just there.
How did I get here:
- I wanted to play a game on Steam that wouldn’t load past the splash screen. I don’t know if I was in a Wayland session or Xorg (I’m guessing Xorg though).
- I decided to try another graphics driver first, installed intel-modesetting from the MHWD GUI in system settings and removed the previously used xf86-video-intel.
- As the game still wouldn’t load, I tried to reboot, and voila, here I am.
The graphics card is Intel UHD onboard, I think 620.
Hardware specs - I also have Ubuntu on a backup partition on this laptop, whcih I’m posting from now, so disregard below software-related output (it’s just the Ubuntu system):
ben@paul-ubu:~$ inxi
CPU: Quad Core Intel Core i7-10510U (-MT MCP-)
speed/min/max: 800/400/4900 MHz Kernel: 5.11.0-41-generic x86_64 Up: 1h 08m
Mem: 2054.9/31801.7 MiB (6.5%) Storage: 1.41 TiB (0.8% used) Procs: 284
Shell: bash 5.0.17 inxi: 3.0.38
ben@paul-ubu:~$ inxi --graphics
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: i915 resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (CML GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.6
I was using 5.14 kernel in Manjaro.
I can get to the command line in TTY2.
I have a separate Timeshift partition with backups (Rsync), but I’ve never restored one so far, let alone from the command line.
Any suggestions how I can recover my Manjaro GUI (Plasma)?
EDIT: I tried to change the graphics drive back through the MHWD command line in TTY2. Here’s how this went:
sudo mhwd-gpu --check
//no output
sudo mhwd-gpu --status
:: status
warning: could not find '/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-mhwd.conf'!
~$ ls /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
00-keyboard.conf 20-intel.conf 30-touchpad.conf
sudo mhwd -a pci free 0300
e[1me[31m> e[mUsing config 'video-linux' for device: 0000:00:02.0 (0300:8086:9b41) Display controller Intel Corporation CometLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics]
e[1me[31m> e[mInstalling video-linux...
e[0;32mSourcing /etc/mhwd-x86_64.conf
e[me[0;32mHas lib32 support: true
e[me[0;32mSourcing /var/lib/mhwd/db/pci/graphic_drivers/video-linux/MHWDCONFIG
e[me[0;32mProcessing classid: 0300
e[me[0;32mSourcing /var/lib/mhwd/scripts/include/0300
e[me[0;32mProcessing classid: 0380
e[me[0;32mProcessing classid: 0302
e[me[0;32m:: Paketdatenbanken werden synchronisiert …
e[me[0;32m core wird heruntergeladen …
e[me[0;32mFehler: Konnte Datei 'core.db' nicht von ftp.belnet.be übertragen : Could not resolve host: ftp.belnet.be
e[me[0;32mWarnung: too many errors from ftp.belnet.be, skipping for the remainder of this transaction
e[me[0;32mFehler: Konnte Datei 'core.db' nicht von mirrors.dotsrc.org übertragen : Could not resolve host: mirrors.dotsrc.org
e[me[0;32mWarnung: too many errors from mirrors.dotsrc.org, skipping for the remainder of this transaction
e[me[0;32mFehler: Konnte Datei 'core.db' nicht von coresite.mm.fcix.net übertragen : Could not resolve host: coresite.mm.fcix.net
e[me[0;32mWarnung: too many errors from coresite.mm.fcix.net, skipping for the remainder of this transaction
e[me[0;32mFehler: Konnte Datei 'core.db' nicht von fastmirror.pp.ua übertragen : Could not resolve host: fastmirror.pp.ua
e[me[0;32mWarnung: too many errors from fastmirror.pp.ua, skipping for the remainder of this transaction
e[me[0;32mFehler: Konnte Datei 'core.db' nicht von muug.ca übertragen : Could not resolve host: muug.ca
e[me[0;32mWarnung: too many errors from muug.ca, skipping for the remainder of this transaction
e[me[0;32mFehler: Konnte Datei 'core.db' nicht von mirrors.xtom.jp übertragen : Could not resolve host: mirrors.xtom.jp
e[me[0;32mWarnung: too many errors from mirrors.xtom.jp, skipping for the remainder of this transaction
e[me[0;32mFehler: Konnte Datei 'core.db' nicht von repo.ialab.dsu.edu übertragen : Could not resolve host: repo.ialab.dsu.edu
e[me[0;32mWarnung: too many errors from repo.ialab.dsu.edu, skipping for the remainder of this transaction
e[me[0;32mFehler: Konnte Datei 'core.db' nicht von repos.silknet.com übertragen : Could not resolve host: repos.silknet.com
e[me[0;32mWarnung: too many errors from repos.silknet.com, skipping for the remainder of this transaction
e[me[0;32mFehler: Keine Datenbank konnte synchronisiert werden (Ungültige URL für den Server)
e[me[0;32mError: pacman failed!
e[me[1me[31mError: e[mscript failed!
Well I wasn’t aware it needs to download stuff from the internet connection…
Sorry about the funny characters, this is the result of piping the command > to a text file.
EDIT: Here is the content of /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf :
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "intel"
Option "AccelMethod" "uxa"
Option "DRI" "False"
EndSection
I think I may have put it there, but I forgot why, maybe it plays a role in this problem?
