Hi everyone. What I am about to describe to you is a problem that happened to me a few days ago with Manjaro Gnome and which has now come back with Manjaro KDE. The difference is that with Manjaro Gnome it happened after a forced shutdown, so I thought it was my fault, whereas now it happened after a normal shutdown. In practice, when I try to start Manjaro, I cannot in any way access SDDM, with the screen that remains stuck on the Asus logo. I can still access the login shell and I still have all my data there, but I can’t get plasma to work. Both if I use startx and if I use startplasma-X11 the shell freezes and I cannot use it anymore, and I have to switch to another one. I’ve read around that it could be graphics driver issues but couldn’t find a solution. Here the data of my system with inxi -Fazi:
System: Kernel: 5.8.18-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.8-x86_64 root=UUID=8540f77b-04b7-4ab2-85ca-80e20b7f589c rw quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Console: tty 3 DM: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine: Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: X580VD v: 1.0 serial: <filter>
Mob/2019
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 37.4 Wh condition: 40.3/48.1 Wh (84%) volts: 11.6/11.6 model: ASUSTeK ASUS Battery type: Li-ion
serial: N/A status: Charging cycles: 128
CPU: Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-7700HQ bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake family: 6 model-id: 9E (158)
stepping: 9 microcode: DE L2 cache: 6144 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 44817
Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/3800 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 801 7: 800 8: 800
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 HD Graphics 630 vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:591b
Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia v: 455.45.01
alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1c8d
Device-3: IMC Networks USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus ID: 1-6:2 chip ID: 13d3:56a2
serial: <filter>
Display: server: X.org 1.20.9 driver: nvidia tty: 240x67
Message: Advanced graphics data unavailable in console. Try -G --display
Audio: Device-1: Intel CM238 HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:a171
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.18-1-MANJARO
Network: Device-1: Intel Wireless 8265 / 8275 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: e000 bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 8086:24fd
IF: wlp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000
bus ID: 04:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8168
IF: enp4s0 state: down mac: <filter>
WAN IP: No WAN IP found. Connected to web? SSL issues? Try enabling dig
Drives: Local Storage: total: 1.08 TiB used: 644.73 GiB (58.1%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: SK Hynix model: HFS128G39TND-N210A size: 119.24 GiB block size: physical: 4096 B
logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 0P10 scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Toshiba model: MQ04ABF100 size: 931.51 GiB block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B
speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> rev: 0J scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: Samsung model: Flash Drive size: 59.75 GiB block size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B serial: <filter> rev: 1100 scheme: GPT
SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
RAID: Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci v: 3.0 port: f060 bus ID: 00:17.0
chip ID: 8086.282a rev: 31
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 59.46 GiB size: 58.27 GiB (98.01%) used: 45.06 GiB (77.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc2
Swap: Alert: No Swap data was found.
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 37.5 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2800
Info: Processes: 194 Uptime: 5m Memory: 15.40 GiB used: 528.4 MiB (3.4%) Init: systemd v: 246 Compilers: go: ASUSTeK model: X580VD v: 1.0 serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: X580VD.317 date: 04/16cc: 10.2.0
Packages: 1352 pacman: 1337 lib: 375 flatpak: 8 snap: 7 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 running in: tty 3 inxi: 3.1.08