Experienced Arch/Manjaro users, would appreciate help:
I’m running Manjaro and after a kernel update I’m unable to boot my system after the message: /dev/sda9: clean, <some-number-A>/<some-number-B> files, <some-number-C>/<some-number-D> blocks. I logged into my system via tty2 and ran updated all of my mirrors + updated all of my packages. It didn’t help.
Can anyone please help me solve this? I’ve never had this issue before.
sddm not ssdm
sudo pacman -S sddm
sudo systemctl enable sddm
sudo systemctl start sddm
Yeah, I really realized it was a typo and went to reinstall it. Am updating the post as the reinstall didn’t help.
I tried re-enabling it then starting it - nothing happened. Also rebooting the machine didn’t change anything.
also, manjaro configures X-Server with the command:
sudo mhwd -a pci free 0300
that would give you the free graphics drivers config.
Hybrid Card with Intel + Nvidia? Try this:
Replace MODULES=() with:
MODULES=(i915)
at /etc/mkinitcpio.conf. (i915 → Intel driver)
Then run sudo mkinitcpio -P to update the initramfs and reboot.
No, there wasn’t any output to the enable and start command.
The output of the status command is:
sddm.service - Simple Desktop display Manager
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/sddm.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Docs: man: sddm(1)
man: sddm.conf(5)
Main PID:0913 (sddm)
Tasks: 2 (limit: 19002)
Memory: 21.6M
CPU: 122ms
Cgroup: /system.slice/sddm.service
|__913 /usr/bin/sddm
Failed to read display number from pipe
Display server stopping...
Attempt 2 starting the Display server on VT 1 failed
Display server starting...
Adding cookie to “/var/run/sddm/{4291cb73-3742-491c-b9e3-eba045b879e}"
Running /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp -background none, - seat seat0 vt1 -auth var/run/sddm/{4291cb73-3742-491c-b9e3-eba045b879e -noreset - displayfd 17
Failed to read display number from pipe
Attempt 3 starting the Display server on vt 1 failed
Could not start Display server on vt1
So it seems to me SDDM is indeed failing to run.
what happens if you ?
sudo systemctl enable sddm
sudo systemctl start sddm
but I think you have a nvidia card, which was installed as nonfree before ?
I get again no output. And yes, I do have an Nvidia card. I don’t know if I was using a free or non-free driver.
yes nonfree would be the drivers form nvidia itself, free drivers are the open source drivers ,
it happens that the card becomes incompatible with the nvidia drivers , because of the kernel update.
So we need to switch over to the free drivers.
Do you know if it’s possible to check somewhere non-free driver GPU compatibility to check if indeed my GPU isn’t supported by the non-free driver?
sudo mhwd -li
what is the output of that? which card do you have ? , : - )and also is this a notebook?
Its output is (reformatted the look to save time - writing on my phone):
Name: video-modesetting
Version: 2020.01.13
Freedriver: true
Type: PCI
Name: video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime
Version: 2021.07.28
Freedriver: false
Type: PCI
Warning: no installed USB configs!
I have a dGPU: an Nvidia GTX 780 and I think my CPU has an iGPU.
sudo mhwd -r pci video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime
I ran it and it removed the driver, I suppose. Do you think I should try to reinstall it now?
No there is a problem with the hybrid driver, lets try the free driver ?
sudo mhwd -a pci free 0300
Thank you so much, this driver works and I’m able to boot! 
How could you tell there was a problem with the old driver?
glad it worked 
I had similar problems with my customers computer…
Thanks again for helping me solve this!
Do you know if I can somewhere see GPU driver support for the non-free driver? I’d ideally like to use it for improved performance.
have to search video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime Nvidia GTX 780 it is … nonfree drivers manjaro
so probably yes , because it is a new kind of GPU, but there is a lot config to do,
like blacklisting nouveau, and also install a module, that switches between
intel and nividia. It is quite complicated, but possible …
Oh, it’s far from being new, it was released about 8 years ago. 
Thanks, I’ll try to look that up. 