I’ll let you take over so i can go do some testing on another ISO. 
im using xfce if that helps, and no i can’t access a tty with the blinking blank screen happening
what im curious about is, it shows my desktop cursor (it keeps blinking in and out of existence) while a there’s blank screen with a white underscore on the top left part of the screen
Then how did you run inxi output from a TTY in your previous post? 
Maybe a translation/language problem?
This is a sign of a probable video driver problem.
Do you use LightDM, or SDDM?
Have you setup auto-login to XFCE?
i mentioned in a reply that i used a snapshot to access the tty. sorry if that’s confusing
im not sure how i can answer this, but it’s the default install of xfce endeavor os. i’ve changed nothing there in terms of display manager
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Then do it again and get journal from the failed attempts.
journalctl -b -1 -p3
journalctl -b -1 -r # look for display manager messages
so a bit of an update, i attached an external keyboard while the blinking shenanigans are happening, did ctrl+alt+f3 and the tty prompt showed for a split second before returning to the blinking shenanigans again.
Reboot the PC, and at the EnOS boot menu, edit the default command line (not a snapshot), to add 3 (the number three) at the end of the line. Boot after you finish.
This will stop the boot process just before LightDM should start, meaning that you will end up to a TTY. From there you might want to do some troubleshooting.
For example,
- update your system packages (
sudo pacman -Syu) - Install SDDM and enable it to replace LightDM
sudo pacman -S sddm
sudo systemctl disable lightdm
sudo systemctl enable sddm
sudo systemctl start sddm
Post feedback from the above, and, please, explain whatever you do, so we won’t misunderstand.
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im currently backing up my home folder so that just in case a reinstall is needed (hopefully not) i can recover my files. though it’s taking quite awhile so i’ll update on the outputs later this day. sorry if it’s an inconvenience
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hold up, this is new. i spammed ctrl+alt+f3 on the blinking screen and now im in tty
this is not the snapshot rather the supposedly current update that’s not working
I got the same problem, too
Tried reinstalling 3 times but still got black screen after grub, or systemd boot
i guess im not alone here haha. is it the exact same as mine? system update → black screen of shenanigans
looks like the lock-file was left behind, which prevents the update to run.
try:
sudo rm /var/lib/pacman/db.lck
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i’ll try, the spamming tty technique is not consistent though and i’ve only managed to get it working once (see the attached photos) so im not sure how i’ll go from thereon
update: still can’t manage to get into tty consistently (haven’t been able to do so since i posted the pic). currently using an old snapshot before system update. until i (or we) can find something i think i’ll be using this in the meantime.
im going to try and look for a possible reason as to why this happens (hopefully). if anyone who has the same problem as me and has managed to fix it please share your findings, thank you very much