I’ve done this a few times now, and the results are all the same. I have only experienced this on my laptop though, and not on my mini-PC. I’ve done a lot of searching and such, but it all ends the same way: reinstalling Manjaro and hoping it won’t do it again.
After the latest install, there were a list of updates, which attempt a message about the kernel being outdated and unsupported. Hesitantly I update the kernel (both through CLI and GUI), once that downloads and I reboot, I now see the list of text of processes that load before the logon screen is presented.
Once logged in I am told that I need to remove the old kernel, which I do (again both CLI and GUI). I am running 5.15x kernel right now.
I find that I cannot restart/reboot the machine afterwards. I have to ‘hard power down’ when I need for that to happen, and again I see a list of processes unloading but ultimately not rebooting.
I’ve run the grub-update command as well.
I really love Manjaro, but I also need a working laptop. Can someone please help?
Why did you use both CLI & GUI? You only need to use one or the other. I am wondering if you did something totally wrong or not.
I typically just only use the GUI to change kernels.
Do you have an LTS kernel installed? You should always have at least 1 LTS kernel installed, such as Kernel 5.10. It’s always good to have 2 kernels installed at the same time that aren’t EOL.
If not, you’ll have to boot into a LiveISO, chroot into your current installation, and install it.
They probably had an EOL kernel installed, and iirc, the CLI recommends you to remove the EOL kernel. Or maybe it was a popup notification, I don’t remember.
In GRUB, before you actually boot into Manjaro, you can select a different kernel by going to Advanced options. Keep Kernel 5.15 installed as well, and maybe the newer updates will fix your issue.
So I am assuming that I should run 5.15 instead. However, I am happy to report that as I previously mentioned, the wall of text before the UI loads is now hidden, and the reboot function is working as intended as well.
You guys helped me quite a bit, which is a big reason to choose this version for an OS. I’ll restart with 5.15 and see what happens.