Manjaro stuck on boot screen

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I beg to differ.

I get the same message on each and every startup. Have been for 2+ years now. And my drive is healthy as a, well, a new, young SSD. I also never turn off my PC without a proper shutdown. And I’ve also never had any data loss. Besides, this :point_down:

Clearly states the drive is clean.

Edit:

I just remembered, I also read somewhere that the message is displayed because of nvidia drivers. Counter-intuitive and doesn’t make even the slightest bit of sense, but there it is.

Edit #2:

However, booting into a live environment and from there entering a chroot environment, to obtain logs might not be to bad of an idea.

How to chroot

  1. Ensure you’ve got a relatively new ISO or at least one with a still supported LTS kernel.

  2. Write/copy/dd the ISO to a USB thumb drive.

  3. When done, boot with the above mentioned USB thumb drive into the live environment.

  4. Once booted, open a terminal and enter the following command to enter the chroot encironment:

manjaro-chroot -a
  1. If you have more than one Linux installation, select the correct one to use from the list provided.

When done, you should now be in the chroot environment.

But, be careful, as you’re now in an actual root environment on your computer, so any changes you make will persist after a restart.

From within the chroot environment, please run the following and provide the output here:

journalctl --boot=-1 --priority=4 --no-pager

Explanation:

  • The --boot= argument limits the log files to the previous boot (-1). Feel free to adjust the value as necessary: - for the previous boot, -2 the one before it, -3 the one before that, and so on, and so forth;
  • the --priority= arguments limit the messages to warnings and errors only;
  • the --mo-pager argument removes the need for human interaction to view the full log, making it ideal for use to obtain logs for providing to the forum here.