Hello, I just ran 2025-06-23 stable update (“pamac update”) and the system hanged on reboot. Restored to a previous state and ran “pamac update --no-aur” and the system now has display issues (changed wallpaper, gibberish on screen) as shown below. Could someone help, please? Please note that my knowledge of terminal commands is very limited. Thank you.
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Hi @basil373,
It looks as if the update…was incomplete, or the mirror wasn’t sync’d yet. Try updating your mirrors, and try again.
sudo pacman-mirrors --fasttrack=5
Followed, if the previous command was successful, by trying the update again:
pamac upgrade --no-aur
And if that was successful, update AUR packages:
pamac upgrade --aur
Hi @Mirdarthos ,
Unfortunately, the mirror update did not do the trick. Still have display issues but thank you for the reply.
You may need to share more of your hardware details and which drivers are installed or used by your system.
Hi @philm ,
The Manjaro installation runs as a VM in VirtualBox (latest version) on a Dell Inspiron 7590 with 64MB of memory, of which 8GB is allocated to Manjaro. Video memory allocated to Manjaro is 256MB. The VirtualBox itself is running on Windows 11. I’ll be happy to share any further hardware details and drivers if you could show me how. Thank you.
For a virtual machine on VirtualBox - I will suggest disabling plymouth.
Remove the splash argument from /etc/default/grub and rebuild grub configuration
Remove plymouth from HOOKS array in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and rebuild init
You asked, so 
inxi in a terminal or in console.sudo inxi --verbosity=8 --filter
for your problem in the forum ? (Wisdom lies in asking → listening → reading )@linux-aarhus ,
Sorry for the late reply. There was no splash in GRUB: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=“quiet apparmor=1 security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3”
and no plymouth in HOOKS:
HOOKS=(base udev block mdadm encrypt filesystems)
Therefore, I made no changes. Thank you for the suggestion.
Apologies for the late reply. Here is the inxi output you requested – thank you.
[...]$ sudo inxi --verbosity=8 --filter
[sudo] password for ...:
System:
Kernel: 6.12.28-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.1.1
clocksource: tsc avail: kvm-clock,acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.12-x86_64
root=UUID=1261871b-4569-42f3-9211-40baaf16a30b rw quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: Xfce v: 4.20.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.48 wm: xfwm4 v: 4.20.0
with: xfce4-panel tools: light-locker,xfce4-screensaver dm: LightDM
v: 1.32.0 Distro: Manjaro base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Virtualbox System: innotek GmbH product: VirtualBox v: 1.2 serial: N/A
Chassis: Oracle Corporation type: 1 serial: N/A
Mobo: Oracle model: VirtualBox v: 1.2 serial: N/A
uuid: ce018902-e435-2646-85de-9a2a4a3819db BIOS: innotek GmbH v: VirtualBox
date: 12/01/2006
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 50.0 Wh (100.0%) condition: 50.0/50.0 Wh (100.0%)
volts: 10.0 min: 10.0 model: innotek 1 type: Unknown serial: N/A
status: full
Memory:
System RAM: total: 16 GiB available: 15.62 GiB used: 1.78 GiB (11.4%)
RAM Report: message: No RAM data found using dmidecode.
PCI Slots:
Message: No PCI Slot data found.
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i7-9750H bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Coffee Lake
gen: core 9 level: v3 note: check built: 2018 process: Intel 14nm family: 6
model-id: 0x9E (158) stepping: 0xA (10) microcode: 0xF4
Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 3 cores: 3 smt: <unsupported> cache:
L1: 192 KiB desc: d-3x32 KiB; i-3x32 KiB L2: 768 KiB desc: 3x256 KiB
L3: 36 MiB desc: 3x12 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 2592 min/max: N/A cores: 1: 2592 2: 2592 3: 2592
bogomips: 15560
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes apic arat arch_capabilities avx avx2
bmi1 bmi2 clflush clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid cx16 cx8 de f16c
flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht hypervisor invpcid lahf_lm lm mca mce
md_clear mmx movbe msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pcid pclmulqdq
pge pni popcnt pse pse36 pti rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sep sse sse2
sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 syscall tsc tsc_known_freq vme x2apic xsave xtopology
Vulnerabilities:
Type: gather_data_sampling status: Unknown: Dependent on hypervisor status
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT Host state unknown
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: mmio_stale_data mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT Host state
unknown
Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: retbleed status: Vulnerable
Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass status: Vulnerable
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines; STIBP: disabled; RSB filling;
PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Retpoline
Type: srbds status: Unknown: Dependent on hypervisor status
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: VMware SVGA II Adapter driver: vmwgfx v: 2.20.0.0 ports:
active: Virtual-1 empty: Virtual-2, Virtual-3, Virtual-4, Virtual-5,
Virtual-6, Virtual-7, Virtual-8 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 15ad:0405
class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.16 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6
compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.20.0 driver: X: loaded: vmware unloaded: modesetting
alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: vmwgfx gpu: vmwgfx display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x966 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 509x256mm (20.04x10.08")
s-diag: 570mm (22.43")
Monitor-1: Virtual-1 mapped: Virtual1 res: mode: 1920x966 hz: 60
scale: 100% (1) size: N/A modes: 1920x966, 4096x2160, 2560x1600, 1920x1440,
1856x1392, 1792x1344, 2048x1152, 1920x1200, 1920x1080, 1600x1200,
1680x1050, 1400x1050, 1600x900, 1280x1024, 1440x900, 1280x960, 1366x768,
1360x768, 1280x800, 1280x768, 1280x720, 1024x768, 800x600, 848x480,
640x480
API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: vmwgfx device: 1 drv: swrast
gbm: drv: vmwgfx surfaceless: drv: vmwgfx x11: drv: vmwgfx inactive: wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 4.1 vendor: vmware mesa v: 25.0.5-arch1.1
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: SVGA3D; build: RELEASE; LLVM;
device-ID: 15ad:0405 memory: 1000 KiB unified: no
API: Vulkan Message: No Vulkan data available.
Info: Tools: api: eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo de: xfce4-display-settings
x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW High Definition Audio vendor: SigmaTel
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:05.0 chip-ID: 8086:2668
class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.12.28-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.4.2 status: n/a (root, process) tools: pw-cli
Server-3: PulseAudio v: 17.0-43-g3e2bb status: active (root, process)
with: 1: pulseaudio-alsa type: plugin 2: pulseaudio-jack type: module
tools: pacat,pactl,pavucontrol
Network:
Device-1: Intel 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet driver: e1000 v: kernel port: d020
bus-ID: 00:03.0 chip-ID: 8086:100e class-ID: 0200
IF: enp0s3 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
Device-2: Intel 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI type: network bridge
driver: piix4_smbus v: N/A modules: i2c_piix4 port: N/A bus-ID: 00:07.0
chip-ID: 8086:7113 class-ID: 0680
Info: services: NetworkManager,systemd-timesyncd
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Message: No bluetooth data found.
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 50 GiB used: 17.22 GiB (34.4%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: VirtualBox model: VBOX HARDDISK
size: 50 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s
tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 1.0 scheme: MBR
Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: VBOX model: CD-ROM rev: 1.0 dev-links: cdrom
Features: speed: 32 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes rw: none
state: running
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 50 GiB size: 48.91 GiB (97.83%) used: 17.22 GiB (35.2%)
fs: ext4 block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: N/A
uuid: 1261871b-4569-42f3-9211-40baaf16a30b
ID-2: /media/sf_SHARED raw-size: N/A size: 462.32 GiB
used: 353.58 GiB (76.5%) fs: vboxsf remote: SHARED
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Unmounted:
Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 8 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-1:2 info: VirtualBox USB Tablet type: HID
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s)
lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 power: 100mA chip-ID: 80ee:0021 class-ID: 0300
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 6 rev: 3.0
speed: 5 Gb/s (596.0 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
Src: lm-sensors+/sys Message: No sensor data found using /sys/class/hwmon
or lm-sensors.
Repos:
Packages: 1377 pm: pacman pkgs: 1371 libs: 409 tools: pamac pm: flatpak
pkgs: 0 pm: snap pkgs: 6
Active pacman repo servers in: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
1: http://ftp.tsukuba.wide.ad.jp/Linux/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
2: https://mirror.phoepsilonix.love/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
Processes:
CPU top: 5 of 193
1: cpu: 10.3% command: firefox pid: 1720 mem: 353.1 MiB (2.2%)
2: cpu: 9.4% command: firefox pid: 1496 mem: 527.1 MiB (3.2%)
3: cpu: 3.2% command: Xorg pid: 866 mem: 104.8 MiB (0.6%)
4: cpu: 1.2% command: firefox pid: 1634 mem: 226.2 MiB (1.4%)
5: cpu: 0.8% command: pulseaudio pid: 1118 mem: 31.7 MiB (0.1%)
Memory top: 5 of 193
1: mem: 527.1 MiB (3.2%) command: firefox pid: 1496 cpu: 9.4%
2: mem: 353.1 MiB (2.2%) command: firefox pid: 1720 cpu: 10.3%
3: mem: 226.2 MiB (1.4%) command: firefox pid: 1634 cpu: 1.2%
4: mem: 166.4 MiB (1.0%) command: firefox pid: 1579 cpu: 0.1%
5: mem: 122.6 MiB (0.7%) command: firefox pid: 1790 cpu: 0.0%
Info:
Processes: 193 Power: uptime: 24m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: s2idle
wakeups: 0 hibernate: shutdown avail: reboot,suspend,test_resume
image: 6.24 GiB services: upowerd,xfce4-power-manager Init: systemd v: 257
default: graphical tool: systemctl
Compilers: clang: 19.1.7 gcc: 15.1.1 Shell: Sudo (sudo) v: 1.9.16p2
default: Bash v: 5.2.37 running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.38
@Mirdarthos @linux-aarhus @philm @andreas85 ,
Gentlemen, the issue with gibberish on the screen was 3D acceleration being set to ON in VirtualBox settings. Setting it to OFF completely resolved the issue. Never had problems with that setting before the current update; happy to turn it OFF.
The 2nd issue of system not booting after an AUR update, was xf86-video-vmware [X.org vmware video driver] that the system pulled from AUR even though I am on VirtualBox and not on vmWare. Ignored it, the system is now OK.
Thank you all for your help.
Strange - with 256MB video memory - 3D should not be an issue.
As for xf86-video-vmware - it was moved to AUR on june 11. 2025 - it should no longer be needed.
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