Stuck on "Reached target Graphical Interface" after system update

Desktop Environments Plasma
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I did a system update and now I can’t even boot on my system. My issue is not only that, but that it keeps refreshing every second, so I can’t access the tty. Yes, I have tried Ctrl + Alt + F2 (which is the one that works on my computer) but I can only see that for a split second, then the screen refreshes again.

I already did arch-chroot and reinstalled the Nvidia drivers (Quadro P620 is my graphics card) without any success either.

I’ve tried everything else I read on this forum regarding this same issue without any success. Any help is appreciated.

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Have you tried waiting beyond the 90 second systemd grace time?

Sometimes after this time the error that blocks the system appears.

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I haven’t, thanks for the recommendation. I’m gonna give that a try now.

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Did try for 2 minutes without success

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Can we get these logs, please?

journalctl -b -0 | eos-sendlog
inxi -Ga | eos-sendlog

Paste the links here.

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I ran the first one and nothing came up.

The second one ran

inxi -G

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I assume you’re running KDE. Can you run the below command and show the output as well, please?

systemctl status kdm.service
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That is correct, I’m running KDE. I ran the command per your instructions but came back as:

“Running in chroot, ignoring command ‘status’”

It’s the only way I can access my system now, via the Live drive and arch-chroot

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Can’t you use the tty by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F3? I think this error stops you from seeing the GUI but you can access the tty/terminal.

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No, like I stated at the beginning of my post, the screen refreshes and I’m only able to see the tty for a fraction of a second.

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I just saw that your system is a hybrid. And you have nouveau as the driver for Nvidia which might cause similar issues.

Try this.

  • Reboot.
  • When you come to grub press E.
  • Add this modprobe.blacklist=nouveau to th end.
  • Now continue.
  • You should get to the GUI.
  • Once there remove the nouveau drivers. Run sudo pacman -Rc xf86-video-nouveau.
  • Now reboot.

Now install Nvidia drivers. You can use this.

Go to go thunder and rain coming in.

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Hello there, thanks for your support. However I’m still stuck, dunno if I’m doing something wrong but didn’t work.

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Tried running the code you sent from arch-chroot with error: target not found: xf86-video-nougeau

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Seems this is another error.

Can these be merged?

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Some time ago it happened to me, I had to reinstall nvidia drivers (in my case yay -S nvidia-470xx-dkms nvidia-470xx-utils nvidia-470xx-settings having a 660ti) and then I ran sudo dracut-rebuild

EDIT:
Didn’t notice that you can’t access terminal…

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It might be possible, I contacted the user to refer to this post instead.

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I attempted that yesterday from chroot, I ran

pacman -Qs nvidia

then deleted all nvidia stuff such as nvidia-dkms, nvidia-hook, nvidia-inst, nvidia-installer-common by running:

pacman -R [package]

then rebooted and did a fresh install of “nvidia-inst” without any success, so back to square one

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Hi, did you ever get this fixed? Saw your post in the other thread but that solution to this error didn’t work for me.

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Hi! Yes I got it solved. The issue I had was that my computer is Hybrid running Intel and NVidia, and I also had Optimus-Manager installed which was the root of all issues for me.

Use a Live ISO, then arch-chroot and run these commands:

pacman -R optimus-manager-q
pacman -R optimus-manager

Rebooted and voila!

Hopefully it works for you as well.

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Thanks lot. That worked for me.