I have Manjaro i3wm installed on my Acer Aspire A315-35.
Sometimes, when I turn my laptop on, it doesn’t go to the lightdm login screen and just goes black. I just press the power button to turn it off then turn it on again and it doesn’t go to just black screen anymore. Is there a way to fix this?
We know almost nothing about your system
So we might start with that.
inxi -Farz
But my first guess is dual-boot with “Fast-Startup” enabled. 
(This windoze feature really just means it hibernates instead of shutting down … then the held power button forces a full power cycle.)
System:
Kernel: 6.6.65-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
clocksource: tsc avail: acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.6-x86_64
root=UUID=fec7278c-0061-4c77-b40c-12f28e770619 rw quiet
resume=UUID=edce5ce6-d5c4-4d43-87ba-52a2e599b21b udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: i3 v: 4.24 with: i3bar tools: avail: i3lock,slock,xautolock vt: 7
dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: Manjaro base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Aspire A315-35 v: V1.23
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: JSL model: Camellia_JL v: V1.23 serial: <superuser required>
part-nu: 0000000000000000 uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: Insyde v: 1.23
date: 08/07/2023
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 22.3 Wh (55.3%) condition: 40.3/41.6 Wh (97.0%)
volts: 11.4 min: 11.2 model: LGC AP19B8K type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
status: discharging
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Celeron N4500 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Alder Lake
level: v2 built: 2021+ process: Intel 7 (10nm ESF) family: 6
model-id: 0x9C (156) stepping: 0 microcode: 0x24000026
Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 1 cores: 2 smt: <unsupported> cache:
L1: 128 KiB desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB desc: 1x1.5 MiB
L3: 4 MiB desc: 1x4 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 774 min/max: 800/2800 scaling: driver: intel_pstate
governor: powersave cores: 1: 774 2: 774 bogomips: 4456
Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities:
Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: mmio_stale_data mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled
Type: reg_file_data_sampling mitigation: Clear Register File
Type: retbleed status: Not affected
Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Enhanced / Automatic IBRS; IBPB:
conditional; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: SW loop, KVM:
SW loop
Type: srbds status: Vulnerable: No microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel JasperLake [UHD Graphics] vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-11 process: Intel 10nm built: 2019-21
ports: active: eDP-1 empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:4e55
class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Chicony VGA WebCam driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-6:3 chip-ID: 04f2:b5e0
class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.14 compositor: Picom v: 12.5 driver: X:
loaded: intel dri: i965 gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22")
s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 mapped: eDP1 model: BOE Display 0x07cb built: 2018 res:
mode: 1920x1080 hz: 60 scale: 100% (1) dpi: 143 gamma: 1.2
size: 340x190mm (13.39x7.48") diag: 394mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9
modes: 1920x1080
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris platforms: device: 0 drv: iris
device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: iris surfaceless: drv: iris x11: drv: iris
inactive: wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 24.2.8-arch1.1
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (JSL)
device-ID: 8086:4e55 memory: 1.77 GiB unified: yes
Info: Tools: api: eglinfo,glxinfo x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Jasper Lake HD Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_sof_pci_intel_icl
bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:4dc8 class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.6.65-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.2.7 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201 160MHz driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:4df0 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: Unknown
lanes: 63 link-max: gen: 6 speed: 64 GT/s port: 4000 bus-ID: 06:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp6s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Info: services: httpd, NetworkManager, smbd, systemd-timesyncd,
wpa_supplicant
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel Bluetooth 9460/9560 Jefferson Peak (JfP) driver: btusb
v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-8:4
chip-ID: 8087:0aaa class-ID: e001
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 4 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.1
lmp-v: 10 status: discoverable: no pairing: no class-ID: 6c010c
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 72.01 GiB (30.2%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital model: PC SN530
SDBPNPZ-256G-1114 size: 238.47 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter>
fw-rev: 21113000 temp: 35.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 230.17 GiB size: 225.5 GiB (97.97%)
used: 71.27 GiB (31.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 288 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: yes
compressor: zstd max-pool: 20%
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8 GiB used: 758.2 MiB (9.3%)
priority: -2 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 39.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Repos:
Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1177 libs: 335 tools: pamac,yay
Active pacman repo servers in: /etc/pacman.conf
1: https://download.sublimetext.com/arch/stable/x86_64
Active pacman repo servers in: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
1: http://ossmirror.mycloud.services/os/linux/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
2: https://mirror.phoepsilonix.love/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
3: https://coresite.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
4: https://mirror.raiolanetworks.com/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
5: https://edgeuno-bog2.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
6: https://cofractal-ewr.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
7: https://manjaro.mirrors.lavatech.top/stable/$repo/$arch
8: https://manjaro.kurdy.org/stable/$repo/$arch
Info:
Memory: total: 4 GiB available: 3.64 GiB used: 2.9 GiB (79.8%)
Processes: 199 Power: uptime: 4h 22m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
avail: s2idle wakeups: 1 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
suspend, test_resume image: 1.44 GiB services: upowerd,xfce4-power-manager
Init: systemd v: 256 default: graphical tool: systemctl
Compilers: gcc: 14.2.1 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.37 running-in: st inxi: 3.3.37
I replaced that OS with Manjaro completely so I’ll just need to find a way to disable fastboot and hopefully the black screen don’t show anymore.
I’ll find a way
You should be able to get into the BIOS settings by pressing either the DEL or F2 keys immediately at power-on (these are the common ones for Acer laptops). 
If you’re thinking of the Windows “hibernate” feature (Fast Startup), this won’t be an issue if no Windows installation remains.
Hopefully by not skipping certain BIOS checks (Fast Boot) it will improve things. Worth a try.
I gave it a couple of weeks after enabling Fast Boot but it happened again today, unfortunately. I only have Manjaro installed on my laptop. 
Fast Boot in firmware has nothing to do with hibernation. The configuration - when enabled - skip enumeration of devices not needed to boot the system.
As @cscs points to it is an issue returning from - deducing from your config - hibernation.
As you system also supports s2idle I suggest testing by disabling hibernation and use s2idle.
Backup the two configuration files in question
sudo cp /etc/default/grub /etc/default/grub.bak
sudo cp /etc/mkinitcpio.conf /etc/mkinitcpio.conf.bak
Then edit the files and remove the following and save the files
resume=UUID=edce5ce6-d5c4-4d43-87ba-52a2e599b21bresumeThen rebuild init and grub config - when done reboot
sudo mkinitcpio -P
sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
reboot
Should you want to return to the original - simply copy the .bak files to the original and rebuild init and grub config.
Sync kernel 6.12LTS - see if it makes a difference
sudo mhwd-kernel -i linux612 rmc
If this does not change the behavior - do some extensive research for the specific system Aspire A315-35 using keywords like Linux error resuming from hibernation.
If you don’t get an immediate result - rephrase the search - try with different keywords - the order of the keywords determines importance - the answer is there… find it
same here,
for 3 weeks now,once a week i boot into a black screen with the mouse cursor.
pressing the power button turns off the PC normally,so upon reboot i have no error messages.
i also have that resume=UUID= line but i never use hibernate.
Fast-Startup is disabled.
ystem:
Kernel: 6.6.75-2-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
clocksource: tsc avail: acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.6-x86_64
root=UUID=2c155c12-a203-4f76-83f3-c5a47e892804 rw
resume=UUID=906e149c-5c8b-4b11-91fd-041805a54c5a udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.2.5 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.10.0
wm: kwin_x11 vt: 2 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: ASUS product: N/A v: N/A serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: TUF GAMING Z790-PLUS WIFI D4 v: Rev 1.xx
serial: <superuser required> part-nu: SKU uuid: <superuser required>
UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1805 date: 10/30/2024
CPU:
Info: model: 13th Gen Intel Core i7-13700K bits: 64 type: MST AMCP
arch: Raptor Lake gen: core 13 level: v3 note: check built: 2022+
process: Intel 7 (10nm) family: 6 model-id: 0xB7 (183) stepping: 1
microcode: 0x12B
Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 10 cores: 16 threads: 24 mt: 8 tpc: 2
st: 8 smt: enabled cache: L1: 1.4 MiB desc: d-8x32 KiB, 8x48 KiB; i-8x32
KiB, 8x64 KiB L2: 24 MiB desc: 8x2 MiB, 2x4 MiB L3: 30 MiB desc: 1x30 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/5300:5400:4200 scaling:
driver: intel_pstate governor: performance cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800
4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 9: 800 10: 800 11: 800 12: 800 13: 800
14: 800 15: 800 16: 800 17: 800 18: 800 19: 800 20: 800 21: 800 22: 800
23: 800 24: 800 bogomips: 164088
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities:
Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
Type: reg_file_data_sampling mitigation: Clear Register File
Type: retbleed status: Not affected
Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Enhanced / Automatic IBRS; IBPB:
conditional; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: SW sequence; BHI: BHI_DIS_S
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GA104 [GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X] vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: nvidia v: 550.144.03 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm
non-free: 550/565.xx+ status: current (as of 2025-01; EOL~2026-12-xx)
arch: Ampere code: GAxxx process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2020-2023 pcie:
gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:24c9
class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.15 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.5
compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: nvidia gpu: nvidia display-ID: :0
screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x1440 s-dpi: 108 s-size: 602x342mm (23.70x13.46")
s-diag: 692mm (27.26")
Monitor-1: Unknown-1 mapped: DP-2 res: N/A size: 1x1mm (0.04x0.04")
modes: 2560x1440
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia gbm:
drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: nvidia x11: drv: nvidia inactive: wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia v: 550.144.03 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
memory: 7.81 GiB
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.303 layers: 5 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu name: NVIDIA
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti driver: N/A device-ID: 10de:24c9 surfaces: xcb,xlib
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi
wl: wayland-info x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Raptor Lake High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl
bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:7a50 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA GA104 High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228b class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.6.75-2-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: 1.2.7 status: off with: pipewire-media-session
status: active tools: pw-cli
Server-3: PulseAudio v: 17.0-43-g3e2bb status: active
with: pulseaudio-alsa type: plugin tools: pacat,pactl
Network:
Device-1: Intel Raptor Lake-S PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:7a70 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp0s20f3 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Ethernet I226-V vendor: ASUSTeK driver: igc v: kernel
pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: N/A bus-ID: 06:00.0
chip-ID: 8086:125c class-ID: 0200
IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Info: services: NetworkManager,systemd-timesyncd
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-14:5 chip-ID: 8087:0026
class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: see --recommends
RAID:
Hardware-1: Intel Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller Intel
driver: vmd v: 0.6 port: N/A bus-ID: 00:0e.0 chip-ID: 8086:a77f rev:
class-ID: 0104
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 187.62 GiB (20.1%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 990 PRO 1TB
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s
lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 1B2QJXD7 temp: 37.9 C
scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 922.42 GiB size: 906.86 GiB (98.31%)
used: 187.62 GiB (20.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 292 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: yes
compressor: zstd max-pool: 20%
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 32.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 49 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 0%
Repos:
Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1318 libs: 383 tools: pamac pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
Active pacman repo servers in: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
1: https://mirrors.manjaro.org/repo/stable/$repo/$arch
2: https://mirrors2.manjaro.org/stable/$repo/$arch
Info:
Memory: total: 32 GiB note: est. available: 31.07 GiB used: 2.44 GiB (7.9%)
Processes: 390 Power: uptime: 21m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
suspend, test_resume image: 12.42 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,upowerd
Init: systemd v: 257 default: graphical tool: systemctl
Compilers: clang: 19.1.7 gcc: 14.2.1 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 default: Bash
v: 5.2.37 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.37