Attached is a screenshot of my issue, I’m currently at my wit’s end, I’ve tried fumbling through the forums to no avail.
I don’t really want to get too far into it, but I needed a new laptop after my wife’s car was stolen from the Children’s Hospital with all our belongings in it.
Super cool “welcome to the city”.
Anyways, I’ve used Ubuntu for the past few years but I was wanting to try something new and my friend recommended Manjaro.
I initially had an issue where it couldn’t resolve the hostnames for the pacman repos, I fixed that by running sudo pacman-mirrors -f5 && sudo pacman -Syyu
Then I rebooted and I’m met just by that screen in the attached picture.
The issue might be linked to a systemd service that tries to save the level of backlight for your monitor when you shut down and restores it when you reboot.
To chroot into your system boot a live ISO and apply in a terminal window
Alrighty, I left my thumb drive at a family member’s house, as soon as I have it and can boot into the live version for chroot, I’ll update you all. Thank you.
I have reinstalled Manjaro and can reboot/shutdown w/o problems. The issue will persist if I run sudo pacman -Syyu though… I also cannot install any additional software because it requires me to update. And the update turns my laptop into a nice paperweight…
If helpful, booting on a live USB stick (I had a Fedora one but assume would work on any linux USB live stick), leaving and booting again on manjaro works around and allows you to access your system again. Seems like a conflict with windows dual boot (like the one with sound from jack plug).
Would love not to go through those technical shenanigans (but thanks btw !) and get an update from Manjaro to solve this.
I have the same issue and running the command suggested by @Takei didn’t help. By the way, when you’re stuck on that screen, open another tty, like ctrl-alt-f3 and then ctrl-alt-f1 to return to the original one, it boots into GDM.
It’s only a workaround though, it would be useful to have an actual solution.
