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flatmoll

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[SOLVED] Empty screen with input

I set up my arch with kde, configured it and....
After the second boot Arch load normally, but the I see blinking cursor on the top left instead of sddm.
OKs run, but the black screen and cursor.
What I am supposed to input there?!!!
That's all.
Absolutely no information.

Last edited by flatmoll (2024-08-20 11:50:32)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [SOLVED] Empty screen with input

What I am supposed to input there?!!!

Nothing.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SDDM#B … eter_shows
Might also benefit from https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel … _KMS_start

In any event, switch the VT andn inspect the situation from there, if you can't try to frenetically presss ctrl+alt+del and on the reboot, only enter the multi-user.target (2nd link below)

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flatmoll

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Re: [SOLVED] Empty screen with input

I used slow motion on my video camera and caught this:
Bluetooth: hci0: Malformed MSFT vendor event: 0x02

I don't know if it's related to the issue.

What is even this?
Please help me, I need a working laptop ASAP.

Last edited by flatmoll (2024-08-18 22:29:57)

flatmoll

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Re: [SOLVED] Empty screen with input

I tired to reinstall Arch, but on formatting disk it gave a gigantic error in red, in the end saying that nvme device is busy.

flatmoll

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Re: [SOLVED] Empty screen with input

Update: manual formatting and reinstall helped.
I still don't know how to avoid this error again.

Last edited by flatmoll (2024-08-19 14:45:25)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [SOLVED] Empty screen with input

Neither does anybody else because we never learned what the error was.
If you re-encounter it, have a look at the situation instead of reflexively re-installing the system.

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flatmoll

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Re: [SOLVED] Empty screen with input

OK, thanks.
I am marking it as solved since I didn't encounter this error again.
And I don't know how to.