XFCE won’t boot after update, screen flashing on and off

[andreas85]

@Strychos

Currently running: 5.4.6-2-MANJARO (linux54)

@maycne.sonahoz Dont get confused. Currently running is the live kernel ; even after chroot
Whereas list installed means the installed system on the disk

Otherwise chroot would depend on the kernel on disk. An then you would not be able to repair a damaged kernel.

i think mhwd-kernel uses same way as uname to determine kernel. But looks into /boot to find installed kernels.

If you want to know the exact kernel installed, you can use

maxi -kv

Maxi - call for testers 0.7.18

maxi is made for people that try to help others in this forum I made this small program to gather information on the boot-process (uefi gpt grub kernel initrd manjaro). All probing is done with standard tools like mhwd-kernel, ls, cat, sort, du, find, … It collects and shows data about: uefi bootvariables efi bootloaders grub.cfg /etc/default/grub /etc/mkinitcpio.conf installed kernels (running and other v…

or

cat /boot/*.kver                                                                                                  
4.19.225-1-MANJARO x64
5.10.93-1-MANJARO x64
5.15.16-1-MANJARO x64