System freeze after login. I can't do anything else

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I had Manjaro installed on my old laptop for a while. Yesterday, after I login, it seems normal. I open the GUI for system updates, it got freeze. No response. I couldn’t soft shut down the system. I had to press the power button to shut down. Then I restarted the system, login, everything is normal. Then I open the chrome browser, and that system freeze again. So basically I can login and that’s all I can do. If I open an app, it gets freezing. Can anybody help me?
Thank you so much.

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can you open a TTY ( Ctrl + Alt + F2 To F7 ) and
return

inxi -Fza
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Yes, i went into it. Typed that command and gave me a bunch of information. How can I get out of TTY?

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Gentle shut down a suddenly hanged PC to minimize a chance of getting a broken filesystem and data loss:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/keyboard_shortcuts#Kernel_(SysRq)

https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/sysrq.html

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  1. We need all that information to be able to help you…
  2. To “get out” of the TTY, press Ctrl+Alt+F2 if you’ve recently updated your system or Ctrl+Alt+F1 if you haven’t updated in a while… (Let us know which worked)
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This is how:

@Fabby

They seem to be using xfce so unless something has changed recently that would be F7. :smiley:

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… or just very simply
ALT + left arrow
or
ALT + right arrow
to cycle through

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