Won't boot into desktop environment

Memelord8682 · 2025-12-02 07:37:38

I installed arch Linux onto my computer a few days ago now and it worked just fine untill 2 days now it started booting into a terminal only mode, I had installed kde plasma as a desktop environment And as I said it worked fine then suddenly didn't work, not sure what to do at all or what information from my system would help fix this so ask any questions and Ill awnser

seth · 2025-12-02 08:38:49

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System … _boot_into
If you didn't just change the default target, please post your complete system journal for the boot:

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

Memelord8682 · 2025-12-02 08:48:53

seth wrote:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System … _boot_into
If you didn't just change the default target, please post your complete system journal for the boot:
sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

After typing this I gave me
" curl: (6) could not resolve host: -
curl: (6) could not resolve host: 0x0.st "

seth · 2025-12-02 08:49:39

https://man.archlinux.org/man/curl.1 - you'll need a network connection…

Memelord8682 · 2025-12-02 09:03:35

Alright I thought the Internet connection would be easy to fix but it isn't detecting any wifi networks, one problem after another

seth · 2025-12-02 10:11:21

You'r probably booting an old kernel, compare "uname -a" and "pacman -Qs kernel"
Then check

cat /proc/cmdline

if there's =/boot/vmlinuz-* you're booting from the root partition, =/vmlinuz-* means you're booting from some boot partition.

In case of the latter you'll likely not be able to mount it for lacking the vfat module and will have to use the fallback image or in doubt chroot from the install iso.
Make sure to have the correct partition mounted into /boot (in case of booting from the root partition: none) and re-install the kernel to sync installed and booting kernel.

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#1 2025-12-02 07:37:38

Won't boot into desktop environment

#2 2025-12-02 08:38:49

Re: Won't boot into desktop environment

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