Hey thank you for this! I’ll try to get that up, although I’m having worse different issues now. I came across A Complete Idiot's Guide To Endeavour OS Maintenance / Update / Upgrade and realized I wasn’t doing full updates. So I tried to follow it.
I made it most the way through yay without issues, I had an error that some things failed to install at the end though. (I don’t have access to what those were, but i know one was some sqlite package)
Then I sorted through the pacnews/pacsaves, but I think I messed something big up. I started getting a user id doesn’t exist in passwd db error (i dont remember exact wording), and probably stupidly, I restarted the computer to try to get to a fresher state. Now when my computer turns on it goes to a black screen after grub and doesn’t do anything else. I do have a mouse cursor, and I can switch to a terminal and get a login prompt.
I can’t login though, and I think it’s because I don’t remember my username right. I don’t know if there’s a way to check this? Or if it’s broken related to the issue I had immediately prior to rebooting.
I should be able to boot to a previous point in the system as I have i think timeshift set up (i have something I just don’t remember which option I went with). But between work and having a bluetooth keyboard as my main keyboard I haven’t been able to try yet.
I’m not sure if i should:
A) Make a new post about getting back into my computer to get syslogs and then coming back here
B) Jump straight to restoring a previous snapshot
C) Something else?
I can try this, but the glitches don’t happen universally. It happens on multiple applications, but not on the desktop or my terminal emulator (kitty). Obviously no harm in trying once i’m back in, but I’m just not optimistic 