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)

  • null@slrpnk.net
    91·
    9 months ago

    Or are they simply not holding back like in Arch?

    I’ll assume you mean Manjaro here – Arch doesn’t hold back packages.

    And yes, Manjaro holds back packages from the main Arch repos which can break compatibility with the AUR.

    EndeavourOS is pretty much literally a GUI installer for Arch.

    • dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      2·
      9 months ago

      I’ll assume you mean Manjaro here – Arch doesn’t hold back packages.

      ouch, yes, my bad

      I think I kinda solved it by installing Wayland. It seems to work, even on my proprietary nvidia drivers

    • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
      26·
      9 months ago

      Manjaro holds back packages from the main Arch repos which can break compatibility with the AUR.

      Except (1) that’s not a thing that really happens and (2) what happened to OP was done by themselves not by an AUR package.