EDIT: I kinda solved it by installing Wayland (with Nvidia card, Ouch!) to replace Xorg. Not sure if this is gonna last though. Perhaps Manjaro is the one I’m gonna throw out FIRST if anything happens from now on.

What should be the first line of defense? Timeshift?

This happened after I installed AUR package masterpdfeditor and 2 applications from github (some hashing algorithm programs, I think they were “Dilithium” and “Latice-based-cryptography-main”, one of them was provided by NIST.)

If using GUI: I login, black screen for few seconds, then back at login screen.

If going to ctrl+alt+f2, login successful, then startx, see picture provided (higher quality).

I tried adding a new user, but result is the same.

I have a live usb to do the Timeshift. (I can also chroot if necessary… But I’m not extremely professional)

  • null@slrpnk.net
    2912·
    9 months ago

    One of your steps should be to throw Manjaro in the trash and install EndeavourOS instead.

      • BestBouclettes@jlai.lu
        318·
        9 months ago

        I would usually agree but Manjaro is a broken piece of garbage. Use Arch or Endeavour if you want to gain experience on an arch based distro.

          • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.eeEnglish
            91·
            9 months ago

            If that’s what you think then you don’t understand why people complain about manjaro. It’s the 1 week package delay to “ensure testing”. There have been bugs that were released in arch and a week later in manjaro, no fix nothing. Also, if you use manjaro and the AUR, which they promote as a possibility, you might have a versioning issue where the AUR package expects packages a week faster than manjaro gets them, and that can actually, very easily, break your system.

            Endeavour IS arch but not arch with a shiny wrapper and a shiny forum, that’s good, Manjaro is NOT that.

            EOS is basically arch but has some packages of theirs that are pulled from their repos, but every other package comes directly from arch, any update comes from arch and so on. They basically reinstall some utility programs and leave you to your devices, no bullshit.

            If you want to compare Eos to anything, try garuda, those two are very similar to my understanding.

      • null@slrpnk.net
        179·
        9 months ago

        This issue is more than likely caused by Manjaro itself.

        So yeah, probably would not have experienced this issue on EndeavourOS, that’s right.

        • deikoepfiges_dreirad@lemmy.zip
          97·
          9 months ago

          I agree that manjaro is shit, but “your distro is shit” is not helpful advice for someone who wants to get their graphical session back.

          • null@slrpnk.net
            71·
            9 months ago

            Of course it’s not, hence why I said “one of your steps”.

            As in, get your data back, and then drop Manjaro.

            • dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
              32·
              9 months ago

              so why would Envdeavor not experience this issue? Does it simply not have the AUR? That’s very unfortunate. Or are they simply not holding back like in Arch Manjaro?

              • null@slrpnk.net
                91·
                9 months ago

                Or are they simply not holding back like in Arch?

                I’ll assume you mean Manjaro here – Arch doesn’t hold back packages.

                And yes, Manjaro holds back packages from the main Arch repos which can break compatibility with the AUR.

                EndeavourOS is pretty much literally a GUI installer for Arch.

                • dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
                  2·
                  9 months ago

                  I’ll assume you mean Manjaro here – Arch doesn’t hold back packages.

                  ouch, yes, my bad

                  I think I kinda solved it by installing Wayland. It seems to work, even on my proprietary nvidia drivers

              • Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml
                4·
                9 months ago

                It is a unmodified Arch install that has a prepackaged setup, so you get a running desktop very easily and get the full.power and configurability of Arch