[SOLVED] Black screen on boot after shut down

wayleologic · 2024-06-09 19:02:22

I am a new Arch user who installed it with KDE Plasma using archinstall about 2 weeks ago and have used it without issue since. However, I recently shut down my laptop and have been unable to reach the login screen after booting. After selecting Arch from the grub bootloader, the screen goes black with only an underscore in the top left and my mouse cursor. I am able to reach a TTY using Ctrl+Alt+F3 but don't know what the problem is. I do not have an Nvidia GPU or any dedicated GPU, only the integrated graphics on my i3 cpu. I can also run a

journalctl -b

if one is needed but don't know how to save the output in order to send it here.

Last edited by wayleologic (2024-06-10 00:11:58)

seth · 2024-06-09 20:33:28

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

don't know what the problem is

the graphical target fails, you probably also want to post your Xorg log, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General

wayleologic · 2024-06-09 22:26:55

Boot log returned https://0x0.st/Xb30.txt

you probably also want to post your Xorg log, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General

I tried running

$ grep -e Log -e tty Xorg.0.log

but it returned

grep: Xorg.0.log: No such file or directory

Have I used the wrong command, or is this caused by something else, like KDE running Wayland?

seth · 2024-06-09 22:32:43

Don't just copy and paste blue boxes - the link explains where to find the log, for SDDM it's in /var/log and SDDM also runs on X11 and crashes.
Might be the elarun theme, see https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=293983

wayleologic · 2024-06-10 00:10:14

It was the elarun theme in KDE it seems like. I had changed it a couple days before and it seems it didn't take effect until I fully rebooted arch. Running

sudo nano /etc/sddm.conf.d/kde_settings.conf

in the TTY and changing "elarun" to "breeze" fixed the issue. Thank you! I'll mark the thread as solved now.

seth · 2024-06-10 06:18:36

https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues - could be https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/1948
You might want to hook up with the users from the other thread and somebody has to provide a backtrace of the failing SDDM

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[SOLVED] Black screen on boot after shut down

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