After installing arch linux on a new laptop (yoga slim 7i), I was able to run KDE smoothy and decided to download and apply all the new animations (boot screen, login screen, wallpaper, cursors,…) and after rebooting I encountered the screen. (I am a noob btw)
I have found no keyboard combination that would open tty, and the only indication that the keyboard is working is from the light on the Caps key.
Please help…I have tried everything…This happened to my old laptop and even after removing all the partitions I still couldn’t solve it…
kubuntu 24.04 shipped with some kind of issue that results in the behavior you describe.
turns out the splash screen seems to be at fault (or at least a factor)
so i assume you still get he grub menu.
type E at he grub screen and edit the line launching linux to remove the words “quiet splash” and then hit F10 to boot your edited code.
you should see a lot of text go buy and end up at a login prompt.
What do you see during the boot? Some grub information, some logo? Any text? Just black screen non stop? Which version of Arch?
Radek
yes, just delete the word quiet and see if that works.
it will come back again next time so nothing you do here is permanent.
Nope, same old black screen of death
I’d see the usual boot screen but after entering the password for my volume group i’d get the black screen even before the login page. I did sudo pacman syu before this, so I think the firmware was the latest one
Do you have some led which is showing hdd/ssd work? And when you have this black screen that diode blinking? Maybe just push ESC key, maybe Arch has boot splash screen (plymouth) what is broken and cover boot informations.
none to all the above, after boot the keyboard seems dead and I can’t execute anything to diagnose or fix this.
do you reckon a fresh linux installation on the computer, wiping the partition clean, would fix this?
it probably would … until you update or install whatever is causing this problem.
if you do reinstall (or if you get it working) i would recommend installing timeshift so you can roll back changes that cause an issue like this.
if you wanted to troubleshoot further, you will likely need to use a live USB and maybe look at logs or what you installed last and try to delete it.
Any chance it wouldn’t work? the problem would get a lot more complicated if I delete everything and the problem still persist.
I think the problem lies in the all the animations I downloaded, I’d even settle for a fresh installation and never touch that again.
i would try a live USB to go in and delete the files you think are causing this.
it’s worth a shot.
Ye reinstalling gave me a clean slate, it’s a hassle so I’ll just avoid the animations until I find out what caused it.
Will see if I can replicate this on another computer, then will get back to you with a solution.
How do you do the thing with the USB btw?
use the USB you used to install linux (or google how to install linux)
ventoy is good for this.
boot to a live linux USB and get to command prompt
mount the linux partition using
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
where sdb1 is the partition where your linux OS is located
then change directory to that mount point and you should see your linux OS
cd /mnt
from there just navigate to where you think the files are that are causing the issue and move them to a new file name which should break any connection it may have with your OS settings.
sudo mv [offending file name] [new file name]
or if you are sure, just delete them
sudo rm [offending file name]
It was the fallout boot splash loading screen all along
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I misclicked in the process and had to reinstall everything again, not proud to say I can download arch manually from heart because of how many time I’ve done this.
Also I put my timeshift files on the hard drive, so needless to say that was useless.
Thank you for your help, please avoid the fallout boot splash screen ad-on in KDE.
glad you figured it out.
but you SHOULD put your timeshift files on the HDD (separate from the SSD or nvme where you have the OS)… that’s best practice.
why would that be useless?
Since I use a laptop I only have ssd as my storage, so everything is on an 512G ssd drive. Will copy the timeshift to a usb before I do anything daring next time.
for next time,
you can use your life USB to restore