**My boot screen is stuck on /dev/nvme0n1p5: clean, / files, / blocks after a crash **
My PC crashed today shortly after an update. I got a green screen (I get them every now and then because of some defect that my specific GPU model has) and rebooted my system. It always boots normally afterwards but now it’s stuck at this screen (pics below) and I have absolutely no idea how to fix this. I’d appreciate any help, I really don’t want to do a fresh install because I have important files.
I’m using KDE and AMD drivers. I believe that the drivers may have been corrupted during the update because i can’t “startx” in the TTY terminal. I’ve also tried updating my system in the TTY terminal too.
When you log in from TTY, you could edit /etc/default/grub and remove quiet from GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX line and update Grub. Reboot and see if you get some more boot messages and where in the process the booting gets stuck.
Edit:
Alternatively, in Grub boot menu, press e and remove quiet from boot parameters. Press Ctrl-x to boot.
libXau.so.6 is provided by the package libxau which is required by flatpak:
Name : libxau
Version : 1.0.9-4
Description : X11 authorisation library
Architecture : x86_64
URL : https://xorg.freedesktop.org/
Licenses : custom
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : glibc
Optional Deps : None
Required By : flatpak libgtop libxcb
Optional For : mtools
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 21.18 KiB
Packager : Andreas Radke <andyrtr@archlinux.org>
Build Date : Sat 21 May 2022 10:34:22 PM CEST
Install Date : Sun 22 May 2022 01:49:13 AM CEST
Install Reason : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script : No
Validated By : Signature
Sudo -Rsn libxau? If not then remove everything regarding that by searching for it’s files. I use Angrysearch for that but Catfish might work. Strip the lot, update and start again.
Sorry there should be a space between sudo and -Rsn. If not you could try logging out and logging back in as root,then doing it although I’m not sure this is a good idea, I would wait to hear others ideas about this.
To save your own files you will need to do a backup. To get a list of installed packages you can do pacman -Qe. That should dump a list in your home folder if I remember rightly. Perhaps @ricklinux can confirm this for me. A reinstall should be the last option though. You learn more if you can find a solution without doing that!