Stuck at black screen when booting after update

General system Newbie
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After a recent update my laptop is stuck to a black screen.

I tried to follow this:

https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/faq-computer-doesn-t-boot-boots-to-a-black-screen-or-stops-at-a-message/6887

However when running this :

sudo reflector -a6 -f5 --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

I got simply failure for every mirror ( time out after 5 seconds), I ping google.com and get no error in term of package loss

I tried also following this:

https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/howto-resolve-an-unbootable-endeavouros-system-black-screen-login-failed-cant-boot-etc/72267

However still no luck even with chroot

I tried to look at different topic in the forum but running out of idea on what to do. when running yay -Syuu using TTS i got everything up to date

On a side note is it possible to access the files inside of the computer ( I should have an external disk with the main ones) and retrieve them in case I decide to flash a new EOS iso ?

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Hello @Playpen, welcome to the forum.
At least booting a live-iso should let you save your data. It’s always a good idea to seve data before getting in trouble at troubleshooting.

3

From this live-iso I suppose I would need to use chroot ?

Indeed for the backup I would use this experience as a way to do it more effectively

4

Should be able to open drive with dolphin and just copy files to external drive. Reading your posts it looks like you have no internet connection….

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I can ping google without any problem (all the package go through), I am trying with a higher value for --connection-timeout 60 --download-timeout 60. I hope it will resolve this issue

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Hi @Playpen ,

Not sure if the black screen is from an incomplete upgrade or something else, but a full upgrade is a good first step either way.

Fix the mirrorlist first, then chroot and upgrade:

From live ISO

lsblk
sudo mount /dev/ /mnt
sudo mount /dev/ /mnt/boot/efi

Fix mirrorlist

sudo nano /mnt/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Add the next line:

Server = https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/$repo/os/$arch

Chroot and upgrade

sudo arch-chroot /mnt
mkinitcpio -P
pacman -Syuu
exit

When done

sudo umount -R /mnt
reboot