Black screen on Login

Hiya, having some issues with my EndeavourOS installation, can’t use eos-sendlog even with chroot as it says “cannot open display”

Whenever I try to log in with Wayland, my screens just turn off, and switching specifically to tty4 causes the system to kick me back to login. Trying with X11, I get a cursor on tty2, but nothing else, and every other tty just leaves me with a blinking terminal cursor.

I was supposed to have a timeshift back-up done automatically when I ran yay yesterday, but alas I cannot seem to get timeshift to find the backup even through chroot. The backup is on an external hard disk.

Any help is appreciated, and especially any help with sharing logs despite posting from phone is very appreciated!

Hi @xNefas ,
Can you login in ttyn? Does
sudo timeshift --restore
show spanshots?

Hi there

I can’t login into any tty as they all give me a blinking cursor, I can only chroot, and even then I can’t seem to find any timeshift snapshots, like, none at all. The snapshots are on an external hard disk, and it’s mounted so I don’t get why timeshift can’t see those snapshots.

Ctrl+Alt+F2 or F3, login and
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Simply run fdisk -l to see what your USB device is called. Then make a directory - mkdir /mnt/my_usb - and mount it there: mount /dev/sdXY /mnt/my_usb
unquote

Can’t do that, I can’t run any commands from this broken installation. Running fsck from a Live USB reported no errors, the system is “healthy” according to fsck.

Boot live system. (NO chroot)

yay -Sy timeshift
sudo timeshift-gtk

Select your external drive in the Wizard.
Restore.

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