Xmonad won't start after hard shut down

[Kresimir]

@Great_Cait

Hey everyone, a couple days ago I had to do a hard shut down (press and hold the power button) in order to rescue my computer after it ran out of RAM (and I assume swap as well) using Librewolf.

This does not solve your problem, but it will prevent a similar issue in the future:

[Tip] Enable Magic SysRq Key (REISUB)

The Linux kernel authors have provided a very nice feature of issuing low-level commands to the kernel directly, regardless of the state the system is in. This is called the “Magic SysRq Key”, because these commands are issued by pressing the SysRq key on the keyboard (if you can’t find it, typically, it shares the same physical key as the Print Screen key, but on some laptops it can be elsewhere). A common use is to reboot when the computer freezes and becomes unresponsive due to some software…