I am new to linux and recently shifted to Manjaro Os and having a great experience.
But after updating some days before Two strange things happened with me.
I automatically got signed out from all of my gmail accounts from chromium though there was nothing done in settings and it was working fine before update
But I solved that by logging in all again.
Today when I started my Pc, I saw the login screen as before But After typing password and pressing enter the entire screen goes black with only cursor present. However, I tried rebooting multiple times but still same thing happens everytime.
Can I know why before updates everything runs smoothly and after updates everytime something happens that spoils my overall experience ??
Is there an easy way of solving this?
Any kind of help or advice will help me.
Make sure you log in in X11 Session and not the Wayland one as your system might not be compatible and somehow was set as default.
In your left, corner screen, dropdown menu
I was trying to login with plasma x11 session only.
Also I have only one session that is plasma x11
I also tried running startx but the result came the same.
From TTy use startplasma-x11 instead and provide what error you get.
Also, to make sure there was no partial update, run this: sudo pacman-mirrors -f5 && sudo pacman -Syyu
I am new to linux and manjaro Os
I can see my login screen as it was before But when I Enter My Password and press Enter then screen goes black with only cursor present
After getting into terminal when i type
startplasma-x11
Then error comes
DISPLAY not set or cannot connect to x-server.
System info
Processor i3 7th gen
GPU nvidia Gt 710
RAM 4 GB
120 GB SSD
1TB HDD
WHEN I STARTED A NEW TOPIC IN FORUM THEN THE PERSON GAVE ME THIS LINK.
IS THERE ANY WAY TO SOLVE THIS ERROR OR DO I NEED TO REINSTALL MY OS ??
What bogdancovaciu was trying to tell you was, please read this! Don’t post there!
After reading the above, press the three dots … below your original post and give us more information so we can see what’s really going on.
Because now we know [the symptom of the disease, but we need some more probing to know where the origin lies…
An inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width would be the minimum required information for us to be able to help you. (Personally Identifiable Information like serial numbers and MAC addresses will be filtered out by the above command)
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So you have an issue in your user profile and finding out which exact setting you changed is going to take weeks if not months, therefore, we’re going to do the following:
Log into TTY2
Create a new user (E.G. if your current user is twitty, create twitty2)
useradd twitty2
Verify that the new user has access to the same groups as your old one by executing groups and comparing the output of both users.
groups twitty
groups twitty2
(Where obviously, twitty is your old user and twitty2 is your new one.)
E.G. if twitty is a member of operator and twitty2 isn’t, execute:
usermod --append --groups operator twitty2
Copy all data files from your old profile into your new one
If that worked and you had no errors, remove the documents from your old user:
rm --recursive /home/twitty/Documents/*
repeat for:
Pictures
Videos
Music
.thunderbird
.mozilla/firefox/
Templates, and everything else that is important to you.
Linux games like Battle of Wesnoth have their game data stored under ~/.local/share/ E.G. ~/.local/share/wesnoth/
After everything has been copied over, disable the old user so you cannot accidentally log on to it any more:
usermod --lock twitty
If you would have theming or other customisations going on, don’t do everything in one day but do this at the rate of 1 application / theme / … per day and if the same issue crops up again, roll back your last change and thus you’ve now pinpointed the exact setting that made your old user misbehave.
in 1 month delete the entire home directory of your old user, but don’t delete the user itself so that in 6 months time files still owned by that user will still show up under its username.
If you ever migrate to a new machine, just don’t migrate the old user: only the new one.
Now log in as your new user and we’re going to take care of the root cause of your issue: