After update - Black screen before login box

Hello folks

Yesterday, as usual on my laptop, I did an system update, de-logged and performed under another TTY. all gone ok without problems.
At the reboot, the system has correctly booted and loaded until, I think, the logging box (I’m running xfce), to terminate on a black screen without any possibilities to switch to any tty.
I tried a different kernel, same way.

I think I will have to arch-root and downgrade some packages. About these 2 operations, I need some advises:

  • To mount a nvme disk, is there a correct syntax to write or it’s the same returned by the lsblk return? ( nvme0n1p2 in my case)

  • How to find correctly which packages to downgrade?

Thanks for yours helps

I read a message today that mesa has issues with nvidia cards. Try to downgrade that package first.

https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/mesa-caution-to-all-users

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Well “destroyed” two my my virtual machines. Seems to affect not only nvidia.

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There is a report that vulkan-virtio will “fix” the problem…

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Yes works out, when installing it before upgrading mesa. But if you already have updated mesa you can’t even get into tty.

I had to use a snapshot and install vulkan-virtio before doing a full system upgrade which included mesa.

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Many thanks for your helps and your reactivity, I was effectively in this case with mesa.
I’ve downgraded it and also installed vulkan-virtio, I can now enjoy running again my EOS :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:
So now, I’ve mesa and vulkan-virtio installed, both can stay installed together or mesa should be removed or safely updated? (maybe a stupid noob question… :thinking:)

vulkan-virtio usually is only necessary for using 3D acceleration inside of virtual machines, so the thing that got it running in your case was the downgrade, except you’re running a virtual machine.

mesa should stay, but be careful with upgrading it in the next few days.

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Advice very hepful, I downgraded mesa and installed vulkan-virtio, It has worked perfectly.

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