Computer boots to black screen after updating

[terribleATlinux]

Hello! I just updated my system, after two years (oops) I finally got it to update, with some help from reddit. Anyway, it’s stuck on a black screen now, after restarting.

I know what the problem is, I can login, I just don’t know what to put in to get my screen back. I have tried several trouble shooting ideas I found on my own, the only one that sort of worked was startx. But I have no idea what all the text it spit out means.

I had it set up with default login window before this happened, nothing fancy.

And to get it to update, I went in nano, #'d communities, updated my keyring, and then ran a update through the welcome app. It seemed to go well, the only issue was a dependency that wouldn’t load, which was better than before.

Hopefully this is a easy fix, I’m not great at this Linux stuff. I wasn’t the one who put this on my computer, lol.

Please help, I’m not having fun over here.

[Svartis]

Chroot into the system and downgrade mesa.

Further information sources:

https://discovery.endeavouros.com/system-rescue/arch-chroot/2022/12/

https://archlinux-downgrade.github.io/downgrade/downgrade.8#EXAMPLES

Be careful when asked if the package should be blacklisted for for future updates.

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https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/mesa-caution-to-all-users/71674/47

[hartwired]

This worked for me but only with 25.0.5 not with 25.1.0. also keep in mind to downgrade mesa and lib32-mesa.

[terribleATlinux]

Is there anyway you could write out the steps for me?
The links don’t really seem to have a lot of clear commands, and I don’t know if I trust AI summary I keep getting when I look it up.

[terribleATlinux]

I downgraded mesa and lib32-mesa, and it still isn’t working. I got a crunched up picture for like a split second, once, but it hasn’t happened again.

[keescase]

Welcome to the forum
Well this is the way I see it, if you haven’t done a update on the system for two years, you would be better of to do a fresh install. Do you know how to download a live ISO and how to create a USB stick for booting of the live ISO ?

[UncleSpellbinder]

@keescase

if you haven’t done a update on the system for two years, you would be better of to do a fresh install.

I completely agree. Far too much has happened to Arch/EOS over a 2 year time period to expect a smooth update.

[terribleATlinux]

I did just that actually, switched to Debian.