I use manjaro linux with the xfce DE and for roughly a month I have not done any updates recently I ran: sudo pacman -Syu which did not work so per the instructions on the manjaro ( [Stable Update] 2023-10-13 - Pipewire, Mattermost, Qt5, Haskell, Python - #2 by philm ) forum I instead ran: sudo pac…

Thanks for your reply, this is the output of manjaro-chroot -a and the fstab file in question. I am new to this and do I do not know what to look for if you could point out an issue or point me to a resource I could use to try to fix it myself I would really appreciated it, as for what you mean by “…

… and now compare to the UUID’s from output of sudo blkid By the way: [image] desperate: /dev/sda1 /hdd ext4 defaults 0 0 This is not smart, rather use UUID or label as /dev/sda1 is not reliably the same partition, always.

The output of sudo blkid: /dev/loop1: BLOCK_SIZE="262144" TYPE="squashfs" /dev/nvme0n1p3: LABEL="swap" UUID="c4d0b91b-c5fc-4741-8a32-eafad561e4de" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="d5067299-b144-144b-8294-f0da5d2f6ed6" /dev/nvme0n1p1: LABEL_FATBOOT="NO_LABEL" LABEL="NO_LABEL" UUID="3077-D02F" BLOCK_SIZE="512" …

Have you deleted manually some snap files? If yes, boot a live ISO, boot with manjaro-chroot into the system and disable all of the snap mount units in /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/.

I tried disabling mount points and after restarting all I got was a blinking cursor after re enabling them that was still all I got, I cannot remember if I set it up but would an application like timeshift help in this situation?

[image] desperate: would an application like timeshift help in this situation? If you would have saved a snapshot before the incident - yes.

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cscs 15 October 2023 19:26 2

Seems like you might have a bad entry in /etc/fstab

.. now with the updated info .. it might still be the case, with mounting failing.

You will need access to the system somehow. By chroot, etc.