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chikobara

Member

Registered: 2023-12-28

Posts: 4

Blackscreen with Blinking `_` cursor

Hey there i got stuck on blackscreen with the underscore cursor ( _ ) when booting into Arch linux
i got the problem after I rebooted my laptop when i was playing a game ( BFV) the whole system freezed suddenly then i rebooted via power button and i never be able to boot again now

i get into tty and copied

journalctl --boot=1 --priority=3 --catalog 

and this is the output
https://pastebin.com/xCp0iLKZ

also i got this when running

dmesg

:
https://pastebin.com/dUAPWuyf

this is the xorg log
~/.locale/share/xorg/Xorg.1.log
https://pastebin.com/1Rjv5aMN

/etc/fstab
https://pastebin.com/nEzqnbUe

Last edited by chikobara (2023-12-28 18:00:55)

V1del

Forum Moderator

Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,232

Re: Blackscreen with Blinking `_` cursor

According to your xorg.log only the nvidia card is loaded and not the integrated GPU which likely drives your actual screen. Remove your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and retry

Also while irrelevant to the issue at hand, mounting/listing order in fstab matters and you are masking your /boot/efi with the root partition mount following. Swap the order of these two.

If that didn't help post a full journal of a boot with the failure

sudo journalctl -b