My manjaro just froze at the "loading screen"

[Crashy28]

Hello guys! I’m a newbie in this forum and in this linux world and if i did anything wrong at the post i’m sorry, i installed manjaro (kde plasma), a few days ago, i was loving it! It worked perfectly for the last 2 days, and now i was trying to boot it up again, but the system suddenly stopped at the loading screen with the manjaro logo, and the dots animation stopped running too, i don’t know what i did wrong, and i need your guys help! (For context the system was installed alongside with windows 11 in a different partition, and grub still opens normally, and windows too)

[freggel.doe]

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[Crashy28]

So…there is no other no other way around? I have to uninstall and re-do the dual boot?

[jrichard326]

No logs and not a lot of information here to help figure out what the problem might be.

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[freggel.doe]

@Crashy28

I have to uninstall and re-do the dual boot?

Sorry, that shouldn’t have been the takeaway from that linked how to.
It contains lots of information, especially the possibly needed BIOS/UEFI settings adjustments (fastboot, secure boot etc).

[linux-aarhus]

• [How To] Troubleshoot black screen on boot

[Crashy28]

i will try those you pointed out, the other user said i had no logs, is it possible to see any logs? how do i access them?

[Crashy28]

the part in the post where it says to " Check the X environment" makes the system boot, but the system only boots if i run the “startx”, and when i reboot the system and dont run the startx, it doesnt boot, and for some reason when the “startx” version loads, the system feels laggy and lacks on animations and etc

[linux-aarhus]

did you run a full system update?

have you ‘riced’ your desktop using store.kde.org - which will happen when you use the Get new … something in settings - which in turn will carry a prominent warning

when startx works then you have narrowed it down to the display manager - have you made any changes to the default?

as a - sort of - last resort - display manager wise - you may want to - temporarily - build sddm from source.

the easy method is boot to console and login - no startx - only

pamac build sddm-git

then reboot the system

reboot

[Keruskerfuerst]

Can you post some log files ?
Boot the Manjaro USB stick and chroot into the system.
Then post /var/log/Xorg.0.log and dmesg and systemctl.

[Crashy28]

1- I did run a system update but it said that the update “has nothing to be done”

2- I did some customization following a tutorial on youtube (i dont remember using this this command, but i remember seeing this warning in plasmas widget section)

3- I have an nvidia Graphics Card, and as i said in the OP, im newby in using linux systems, and i wasnt sure if my graphics card drivers were up to date, so i opened settings and updated them.

obs: I remember doing another update in drivers using another command in the “konsole”, (i am currently in the startx environment, if there is anything i can do from here lemme know)

[Crashy28]

when i run this command it says: " permission denied"
but i did run another command that i saw here in the forum the "journalctl --boot=-1 --priority=3 --catalog --no-pager "

and it displays the following:

mar 19 22:33:39 Estudos-Trabalho systemd[1]: Failed to activate swap Swap Partition.
░░ Subject: A unidade dev-sda8.swap falhou
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://forum.manjaro.org/c/support
░░ 
░░ A unidade dev-sda8.swap falhou.
░░ 
░░ O resultado é failed.
mar 19 22:33:39 Estudos-Trabalho kernel: kvm: support for 'kvm_amd' disabled by bios
mar 19 22:33:47 Estudos-Trabalho wpa_supplicant[454]: ioctl[SIOCSIWAP]: Operation not permitted
mar 19 22:33:47 Estudos-Trabalho wpa_supplicant[454]: ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
mar 19 22:33:47 Estudos-Trabalho wpa_supplicant[454]: ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
mar 19 22:33:52 Estudos-Trabalho wpa_supplicant[454]: ioctl[SIOCSIWFREQ]: Operation not supported
mar 19 22:33:53 Estudos-Trabalho wpa_supplicant[454]: bgscan simple: Failed to enable signal strength monitoring
mar 19 22:45:18 Estudos-Trabalho wpa_supplicant[454]: ioctl[SIOCSIWAP]: Operation not permitted
mar 19 22:45:18 Estudos-Trabalho wpa_supplicant[454]: ioctl[SIOCSIWAP]: Operation not permitted
mar 19 22:45:20 Estudos-Trabalho kernel: watchdog: watchdog0: watchdog did not stop!
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EDIT: the first two didnt work but the last one did displaying the following log:

systemctl                                                                                                                                                                                                                  1 ✘ 
  UNIT                                                                                                   LOAD   ACTIVE SUB       DESCRIPTION                                                                          
  proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.automount                                                                      loaded active waiting   Arbitrary Executable File Formats File System Automount Point                        
  sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:01.1-0000:10:00.1-sound-card0-controlC0.device                          loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.1/0000:10:00.1/sound/card0/controlC0
  sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:01.2-0000:15:00.0-usb1-1\x2d2-1\x2d2:1.0-net-wlp21s0f0u2.device         loaded active plugged   RTL8188EUS 802.11n Wireless Network Adapter
  sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:01.2-0000:15:00.1-ata1-host0-target0:0:0-0:0:0:0-block-sda-sda1.device  loaded active plugged   ST1000DM010-2EP102 Recuperação
  sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:01.2-0000:15:00.1-ata1-host0-target0:0:0-0:0:0:0-block-sda-sda10.device loaded active plugged   ST1000DM010-2EP102 10
  sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:01.2-0000:15:00.1-ata1-host0-target0:0:0-0:0:0:0-block-sda-sda2.device  loaded active plugged   ST1000DM010-2EP102 EFI\x20system\x20partition
  sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:01.2-0000:15:00.1-ata1-host0-target0:0:0-0:0:0:0-block-sda-sda3.device  loaded active plugged   ST1000DM010-2EP102 Microsoft\x20reserved\x20partition
  sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:01.2-0000:15:00.1-ata1-host0-target0:0:0-0:0:0:0-block-sda-sda4.device  loaded active plugged   ST1000DM010-2EP102 Basic\x20data\x20partition
  sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:01.2-0000:15:00.1-ata1-host0-target0:0:0-0:0:0:0-block-sda-sda5.device  loaded active plugged   ST1000DM010-2EP102 root
  sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:01.2-0000:15:00.1-ata1-host0-target0:0:0-0:0:0:0-block-sda-sda6.device  loaded active plugged   ST1000DM010-2EP102 EFI\x20System\x20Partition
  sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:01.2-0000:15:00.1-ata1-host0-target0:0:0-0:0:0:0-block-sda-sda7.device  loaded active plugged   ST1000DM010-2EP102 7
  sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:01.2-0000:15:00.1-ata1-host0-target0:0:0-0:0:0:0-block-sda-sda8.device  loaded active plugged   ST1000DM010-2EP102 8
  sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:01.2-0000:15:00.1-ata1-host0-target0:0:0-0:0:0:0-block-sda-sda9.device  loaded active plugged   ST1000DM010-2EP102 9
  sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:01.2-0000:15:00.1-ata1-host0-target0:0:0-0:0:0:0-block-sda.device       loaded active plugged   ST1000DM010-2EP102
  sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:01.2-0000:15:00.2-0000:1d:07.0-0000:25:00.0-net-enp37s0.device          loaded active plugged   RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Motherboard (one of many))
  sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:08.1-0000:38:00.6-sound-card1-controlC1.device                          loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.1/0000:38:00.6/sound/card1/controlC1
  sys-devices-platform-serial8250-tty-ttyS1.device                                                       loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS1
  sys-devices-platform-serial8250-tty-ttyS10.device                                                      loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS10
  sys-devices-platform-serial8250-tty-ttyS11.device                                                      loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS11
  sys-devices-platform-serial8250-tty-ttyS12.device                                                      loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS12
  sys-devices-platform-serial8250-tty-ttyS13.device                                                      loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS13
  sys-devices-platform-serial8250-tty-ttyS14.device                                                      loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS14
  sys-devices-platform-serial8250-tty-ttyS15.device                                                      loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS15
  sys-devices-platform-serial8250-tty-ttyS16.device                                                      loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS16
  sys-devices-platform-serial8250-tty-ttyS17.device                                                      loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS17
  sys-devices-platform-serial8250-tty-ttyS18.device                                                      loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS18
  sys-devices-platform-serial8250-tty-ttyS19.device                                                      loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS19
  sys-devices-platform-serial8250-tty-ttyS2.device                                                       loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS2
  sys-devices-platform-serial8250-tty-ttyS20.device                                                      loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS20
  sys-devices-platform-serial8250-tty-ttyS21.device                                                      loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS21
  sys-devices-platform-serial8250-tty-ttyS22.device                                                      loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS22
  sys-devices-platform-serial8250-tty-ttyS23.device                                                      loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS23
  sys-devices-platform-serial8250-tty-ttyS24.device                                                      loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS24
  sys-devices-platform-serial8250-tty-ttyS25.device                                                      loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS25
  sys-devices-platform-serial8250-tty-ttyS26.device                                                      loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS26
  sys-devices-platform-serial8250-tty-ttyS27.device                                                      loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS27
  sys-devices-platform-serial8250-tty-ttyS28.device                                                      loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS28
  sys-devices-platform-serial8250-tty-ttyS29.device                                                      loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS29
  sys-devices-platform-serial8250-tty-ttyS3.device                                                       loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS3
  sys-devices-platform-serial8250-tty-ttyS30.device                                                      loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS30
  sys-devices-platform-serial8250-tty-ttyS31.device                                                      loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS31
  sys-devices-platform-serial8250-tty-ttyS4.device                                                       loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS4
  sys-devices-platform-serial8250-tty-ttyS5.device                                                       loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS5
  sys-devices-platform-serial8250-tty-ttyS6.device                                                       loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS6
  sys-devices-platform-serial8250-tty-ttyS7.device                                                       loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS7
  sys-devices-platform-serial8250-tty-ttyS8.device                                                       loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS8
  sys-devices-platform-serial8250-tty-ttyS9.device                                                       loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS9
  sys-devices-pnp0-00:05-tty-ttyS0.device                                                                loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/pnp0/00:05/tty/ttyS0
  sys-devices-virtual-misc-rfkill.device                                                                 loaded active plugged   /sys/devices/virtual/misc/rfkill
  sys-module-configfs.device                                                                             loaded active plugged   /sys/module/configfs
  sys-module-fuse.device                                                                                 loaded active plugged   /sys/module/fuse
  sys-subsystem-net-devices-enp37s0.device                                                               loaded active plugged   RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Motherboard (one of many))

[brahma]

so when you type:
startx
you can normally log in?

post output from:
mhwd -l -li && mhwd-kernel -li