EDIT: I kinda solved it by installing Wayland (with Nvidia card, Ouch!) to replace Xorg. Not sure if this is gonna last though. Perhaps Manjaro is the one I’m gonna throw out FIRST if anything happens from now on.

What should be the first line of defense? Timeshift?

This happened after I installed AUR package masterpdfeditor and 2 applications from github (some hashing algorithm programs, I think they were “Dilithium” and “Latice-based-cryptography-main”, one of them was provided by NIST.)

If using GUI: I login, black screen for few seconds, then back at login screen.

If going to ctrl+alt+f2, login successful, then startx, see picture provided (higher quality).

I tried adding a new user, but result is the same.

I have a live usb to do the Timeshift. (I can also chroot if necessary… But I’m not extremely professional)

    • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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      5 months ago

      On most platforms, you’ll want to sudo systemctl start gdm if you installed Gnome.

      As for the login issue, that can be anything from a crash in Gnome itself to a program crashing and calling to a logout (or suffering from the famous kill(-1) bug).

      Try installing/finishing updates through the command line and rebooting, that usually fixes GUI problems like these in my experience.