Unable to boot/black screen after botched update

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Ok thanks for the advice, I’ll try being clearer and I’m happy to provide the output of any commands I need to enter.

So if I take Recovering from an interrupted update/upgrade as a starting point which has an update command this is what I get…

  1. I chroot with manjaro-chroot -a after confirming I have ext4
  2. I enter [ -f /var/lib/pacman/db.lck ] && rm -f /var/lib/pacman/db.lck
  • There is no output
  1. I then enter pacman-mirrors -f && pacman -Syyu
  • I get this:
::INFO Downloading mirrors from Manjaro
::INFO => Mirror pool: https://repo.manjaro.org/mirrors.json
::INFO => Mirror status: https://repo.manjaro.org/status.json
::INFO Using custom mirror file
::INFO Querying mirrors - This may take some time
 0.210 United_Kingdom : http://manjaro.mirrors.uk2.net/
 0.181 United_Kingdom : https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/repo.manjaro.org/repos/
::INFO Writing mirror list
::United_Kingdom  : https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/repo.manjaro.org/repos/stable/$repo/$arch
::United_Kingdom  : http://manjaro.mirrors.uk2.net/stable/$repo/$arch
::INFO Mirror list generated and saved to: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core                                                                                 143.6 KiB   881 KiB/s 00:00 [####################################################################] 100%
extra                                                                                  8.3 MiB  11.0 MiB/s 00:01 [####################################################################] 100%
multilib                                                                             149.2 KiB  3.94 MiB/s 00:00 [####################################################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: gnome-wallpapers: local (20201023-1) is newer than extra (20201020-2)
there is nothing to do
  1. I enter update-grub
  • No output from this either

The tutorial then says exit the chroot environment and reboot machine. After this I would expect it to boot up correctly, however after the grub bootloader screen it just seems to hang on a blank black screen. There is nothing on the screen, completely blank.

I try to get to TTY using Ctrl+Alt+F2, it doesn’t seem to do anything so I try with F3, F4, F5 and F6 with no difference.

I found a post where someone else had a blank screen and someone suggested going into grub and pressing e, and then replacing quiet with 3 and booting with F10. I don’t have the link but other responses say it worked for a few others. In my case however it did not work. I got a quick flash of some text before it hung up again. I repeated these steps again this time taking a video recording to see what it says. This is what it said:

running early hook [udev]
running hook [udev]
Triggering uevents...

It disappears after a split second and just stays on the black screen with no further output.

I really don’t know where to go from here :man_shrugging: