Hello. This is my first post so pardon if I don’t provide enough information I’m just getting familiar with Manjaro after 3 months of using it.
Just as the title says, sometimes - randomly - my setup will start booting, asking for BIOS and Disk password and then after just some moments it will display (number may vary):
On a normal boot this lasts for a couple seconds without change and then my mouse pointer comes up and just a second or two later the KDE splash/login screen becomes visible.
But sometimes it gets stuck there forever. Once when I wasn’t in a hurry I decided to wait just in case it’s fsck or something similar working in the background, but I ended up wasting half an hour without change. Only solution working so far is rebooting.
Sometimes this can happen twice in a row specially after issuing large updates with pacman.
This is the only issue I’ve found so far and I’m kind of lost. Any help is appreciated.
Thank you.
EDIT 1: Attempting to switch consoles with Ctrl+Alt+F1 (or any other function key) does not work.
Most likely you are force powering off your laptop/desktop, this kind of issues happen because of that and will only become worse when you repeat it. (Up to a point you won’t be able to boot at all)
Always use the menu to power off, instead of your power buttons…
Hi TriMoon and thanks for your answer! This document shows things I definitely wasn’t aware of.
But to be honest I started rebooting the system the bad way only after this started happening and I had seemingly no other choice (all times it happened I was powering down the system via the GUI and I thought it to be a KDE bug).
Anyhow if you never, knowingly or un-knowingly, powered off your machine the bad way and it started to happen…
Maybe it is time to check your drive for bad sectors…
SSD’s wear-out faster as rotational drives, but all hardware starts to malfunction at some point in time…
That’s a good one, I was suspecting something like this could happen (I’m using a 2-years old SSD by now, with daily usage).
AFAIK, it’s not recommended to run certain tools on them so I’m not sure what’s safe to do on this cases, is it safe to run a fsck or do you have any other recommendation? Thank you
2.I also would thinking twice, if you really need luks to encrypt your boot partition… this also could lead to some issues or make fixes maybe harder in some usecases.
3.You can also disable this this login menue, when first booting in KDE and not using differend
user accounts.
4.Most of the time a Bios password is enough to secure your boot… and if you really want secure some data, i would recommend veracrypt and encrypt a secondary partition or use the container option.
I mainly wanted to say, if you run into issue… it makes fixes harder than normaly.
And you decrypt your files always when you logged in your system… so that only gives your security if your whole PC (or HDD/SSD) or Laptop is stolen. I just think, that alot of people not aware about that.
People are unaware of a lot of stuff nothing new there, but it’s the responsibility of the user to know and understand what (s)he uses right?
From my POV, using encryption or not is same as using ext4 vs btrfs etc…
It all boils down to the level of knowledge…
If want a carefree system, well almost ofcourse, then we should only use Android from the provider
You’re right: encrypting the entire disk rather than separating and encrypting my home one alone does not seem optimal. I’ll rearrange this in a future setup definitely.