Something prevents my os to boot (arbitrarily)

General system Newbie
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When I boot the machine, I get a black screen with 2 lines of code which looks something like this:

...
reading files 1511321/56465131

Then nothing happens.
After that I open the command line with the shortcut, do something (something like sudo reboot, or in other case some pacman query) and then it boots normally until I shut down or reboot again. What’s the best way to understand why that happens?

PS I have not updated any program after the first update when I freshly install EOS the day before yesterday. I have only installed some basic programs that I had with my previous EOS. nvidia-smi command seems fine too. Any ideas?

Some info:

(base) [tigran@asus ~]$ hostnamectl
 Static hostname: asus
       Icon name: computer-laptop
         Chassis: laptop
      Machine ID: 605b483f9d2c4ea49675eeb514c570b6
         Boot ID: 9f13d04fc3ab4fcebbf4a99a1080a3be
Operating System: EndeavourOS                     
          Kernel: Linux 5.15.2-arch1-1
    Architecture: x86-64
 Hardware Vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
  Hardware Model: ROG Zephyrus G14 GA401IV_GA401IV

OS: EndeavourOS rolling rolling
Kernel: x86_64 Linux 5.15.2-arch1-1
Uptime: 12m
Packages: 1089
Shell: bash 5.1.8
Resolution: 2560x1080
DE: KDE 5.88.0 / Plasma 5.23.3
WM: KWin
GTK Theme: Breeze [GTK2/3]
Icon Theme: breeze-dark
Disk: 237G / 946G (27%)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS with Radeon Graphics @ 16x 3GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 with Max-Q Design
RAM: 2954MiB / 15478MiB
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Please read through the page linked to

and provide some more detailed info, valuable for anyone who is able to assist you.

Thanks and best of luck!

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Here is the boot log of the current session which happened to boot normally: https://clbin.com/bPWtP

Note: that sometimes it boots without issues, and sometimes it freezes on the black page that says:

Starting version ...
/dev/ ... blocks
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I thought it’s the time shift, but even after deleting time shift and removing the ssd it still doesn’t boot https://clbin.com/BGAMB

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404 for that link.

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https://clbin.com/CBHs5

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It’s apparently a failure related to SDDM:

Nov 16 15:29:32 asus sddm[544]: Failed to read display number from pipe
Nov 16 15:29:32 asus sddm[544]: Display server stopping...

There are some recent threads on the forum, plus

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image

The first command gives these results

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Those are warnings. What’s not working?

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Should I wait until all the links fail or is it eventually going to be able to find links that work?

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I can’t see what your computer is doing, so you’ll have to work out whether your network is working or not.

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The network works when I do ping

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What happens when you do pacman -Syyu

Edit: Have you had EndeavourOS installed and working on this laptop?

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pacman -Syyu does its job without errors. And yes, I have used EOS for around a week without issues before.

The computer booted again. What’s the best way to remove the nvidia proprietary drivers automatically and install again with EOS nvidia-installer?

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I’d install the linux-lts kernel (and headers) and see if that works better. There may be some issues with this early version of the 5.15 kernel.

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Do I have to remove anything before install, or is it plain install and reboot?

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I remember that dkms installed nvidia 475 and after I updated the packages, I got 495 and that’s where the problem probably appeared. What do you think?

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nvidia-installer-dkms -n will put you back to nouveau open source drivers after reboot.

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ricklinux Would you recommend to try that? Will that erase the current nvidia drivers completely?

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Yes it will and install open source nouveau. I’m not sure how you installed it originally? I know this laptop is kinda special and others have had troubles. I’m surprised you had it working.