Howdy, I updated my system today using yay, and the first point of confusion was when I booted into my system and it was completely black, something I realized was due to the discontinuation of x11. I attempted to switch to Wayland by logging out, at which point I tried logging out but hit ‘sleep’ i…

Welcome to the community @Jahndoh001 :waving_hand::smiley: The Plasma 6.8 update has tripped up a number of folk, with SDDM issues, Baloo issues and the total absence of X11. You’re not alone :wink: [image] Jahndoh001: Insure of what else to do, I restarted the system and got stuck on the mes…

Hello, thank you tremendously for responding! If I recall correctly, I did press the physical ‘restart’ button on my computer. I did suspect that the other issue could have been unrelated, the black screen was obviously an otherwise benign result of x11’s discontinuation, I just wanted to bring it u…

Yeah, I suspected that was a bad call. I can’t imagine it led to anything good. :confused: I’ll keep this is mind for the future. Edit: also, I did end up trying to let the start job run and that didn’t work. I also can’t figure out how to boot into emergency mode as that also brings up the start …

When the system is refusing to boot, booting into the Live ISO environment is your next step. From here, you can either backup your important data to an external drive and re-install, or you can try to fix the issue. Typically, fixing the issue in the Live ISO would require arch-chroot, which allo…

Hello, I have gotten around to trying the live ISO this morning, and have gotten the live usb up and running successfully. Although I have also started to worry this is an issue with the hard drive? I sure hope it isn’t because I know very little about hardware and am absolutely not prepared for tr…

[image] Jahndoh001: Although I have also started to worry this is an issue with the hard drive? Don’t panic. [image] Jahndoh001: “A start job is running for /dev/disk/by-uuid.” It really would be helpful if you could provide the information requested by @Bink Also, try to switch to a…

Howdy, thank you tremendously for the suggestions. Although it doesn’t seem like pressing curl+alt+f3 did anything? It’s still stuck on the start job message. As for chroot, I am still rather lost as to what I need to do for that. This is almost certainly a failing of my own incompetence, I ran the…

[image] Jahndoh001: mount: /dev/sda2/mnt/ can’t find in etc fstab There is a typo in that command, it should be sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt, there has to be a space after the sda2. Please check the instructions on arch-chroot again. When you’ve booted into the liveiso and run sudo lsblk -f wi…

Oh, sorry… yeah I think I did try it with the space earlier and then tried it without since it still threw up an error. An error that was caused because I did, in fact, have an meme drive. Not exactly my brightest moments. But I did successfully run the arch-chroot command. systemctl —failed doesn’…

Startup stuck on ‘a start job is running for /dev/disk/by-uuid.’

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thefrog October 21, 2026, 1:21pm 4

Always prevent yourself from doing this. Its best to use REISUB to learn more see this thread