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Nova

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Registered: 2025-04-21

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Black screen after selecting arch in grub?

So I just restarted my pc for the first time in a couple of days, and when I got to the grub menu and told it to boot into arch, I just had a black screen and couldn’t do anything. I booted into single user mode using “init=/bin/sh” in the grub editor thing. (/bin/bash didn’t work for me.) Then I check journal using ‘journalctl —since “60 min ago” -p crit..emerg’ and there’s a bunch of red text, but I think there’s stuff above what it’s fitting into the terminal, and I can’t figure out how to scroll up. So my questions are: wtf happened to my computer, how can I scroll up to see more of the journal, and how can I fix this problem and get back to using my computer?

Nova

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Registered: 2025-04-21

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Re: Black screen after selecting arch in grub?

Btw a lot of the errors I can see look like ‘#<some number here>  <big long 0x whatever address> <either some really long command starting with _ZN, just ppoll, a long command starting with g_main, or just n/a> (<some lib, I can see libc.so.6, libglib-2.0.so.0, and libQt6core.so.6>)

Nova

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Registered: 2025-04-21

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Re: Black screen after selecting arch in grub?

One more thing, I ran journal just to show err level, and I’m seeing stuff like nvidia-gpu i2c timeout error and ucsi_ccg ucsi_ccg_init failed with error -110. (I’m paraphrasing these bc they’re all really long)

Nova

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Re: Black screen after selecting arch in grub?

After a lot of messing around I was able to get into a cli login and log in to my user account successfully. But I still get a black screen if I try to switch back to the GUI page. Please someone help.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Black screen after selecting arch in grub?

Did you properly handle the firmware news item: https://archlinux.org/news/linux-firmwa … ervention/ ? If you copy pasted the message from the homepage literally you will not have reinstalled linux-firmware which you want to do, if you lack internet access from your cli because you also lack wifi firmware or so, boot a live disk and run

pacman -Syu linux-firmware

from a chroot.

If that is not it, try to get the crash logs. if you get crashes from the GUI TTY but can still operate the cli tty, post

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

and post the file contents you get from that.