System goes as far as what used to be the display manager logon but the screen is blank with a blinking cursor. The update included a new kernel so I suspect that.
I have tried all the boot options and they all end up in the same place.
I am running Endeavouros under KVM on OpenSuse Tumbleweed. I have no idea how this can be fixed because it’s a VM. I may just dump it and maybe try a new install later although the one I have is heavily customized and I am reluctant to scrap it.
BTW running plain intel graphics so nvidia is not involved.
Mesa 1:25.1.1-1 was the culprit for me and many others.
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Dear all, This morning, after the usual system upgrade, I experienced a system hang during boot — right before the desktop environment was supposed to start. Using a live distro and chroot, I inspected the recent updates and noticed mesa among them: [2025-05-22T09:36:45+0200] [ALPM] upgraded mesa (1:25.0.5-1 -> 1:25.1.1-1) Here’s an excerpt from the boot log: gnome-session-binary\[...] WARNING: Application 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' failed to register before timeout gnome-session-binary\[…e class='quote' data-post="1" data-topic="71674">
It is looking like the new Mesa update is causing problems mostly with nVidia systems…refer to: So far there have been reports with nVidia systems (including hybrid systems) & Tigerlake Intel being affected. I would recommend upgrading with caution. So far, Gnome & KDE have been affected. Asking everyone to post: lspci | grep 'VGA' or inxi -G Or both. Thank You!
This problem has apparently been around for 2 days and the updates are still rolling out ?? I would expect at the first sign of trouble the offending software would have been pulled ! Maybe it’s not wise to run EndeavourOS in a VM because after you can’t boot you’re USC.
Just like on real hardware, you can arch-chroot or use snapshots to recover in case of issues.
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Fixed it here temporarily by switching to straight VGA for video. Was Virtio but it won’t run display manager using it. Hope someone at Endeavour is working on it.
If you downgrade mesa, reboot, install vulkan-virtio without anything else, reboot, an upgrade the system again, it will work - at least it did for my virtual installations.
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Perfact. Thank you.