System Doesn't boot - My usual fixes don't work

[scotty65]

@rob215x

Here’s a phone pic I just took of the screen when I try to boot normally…

That looks like the issue caused by the move to systemd v256:

[Stable Update] 2024-07-01 - Kernels, Systemd, KDE Gear, LibreOffice, Firefox, Wine, Qemu

* Support for cgroup v1 ('legacy' and 'hybrid' hierarchies) is now considered obsolete and systemd by default will refuse to boot under it. To forcibly reenable cgroup v1 support, SYSTEMD_CGROUP_ENABLE_LEGACY_FORCE=1 must be set on kernel command line. The meson option 'default-hierarchy=' is also deprecated, i.e. only cgroup v2 ('unified' hierarchy) can be selected as build-time default.

The fix was here (but don’t type in all the X’s - they are just placeholders for whatever else was on that line in the /etc/grub/default file):

[Stable Update] 2024-07-01 - Kernels, Systemd, KDE Gear, LibreOffice, Firefox, Wine, Qemu

@scotty65 thank you for highlighting that, I was lost in search results:) After manjaro-chroot login to my installation, I’ve edited the /etc/default/grub file and edited the relevant line as below: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="XXXXXXXXXXX SYSTEMD_CGROUP_ENABLE_LEGACY_FORCE=1 systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=0" and then sudo grub-install && sudo update-grub and then rebooted my computer. Now I can go back to my Monday routine, peacefully:))