Black Screen After Booting Arch Linux – What Should I Do?
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TechieNinja42
I'm having trouble with my Arch Linux setup. After booting, my screen goes completely black, but I can access the tty. I tried installing KDE Plasma with the following commands: `sudo pacman -S plasma-desktop`, `sudo pacman -S sddm`, and enabling sddm with `sudo systemctl enable sddm`. However, the problem still exists after rebooting. What should I try next? I had KDE installed previously with no issues.
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Looks like your desktop environment isn't loading properly. Make sure you installed everything correctly. If you can get to tty, try reinstalling your desktop environment from there or consider installing a different one altogether. It might fix the issue!
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When you boot into tty, you can check the logs for errors concerning the graphical interface. Commands like `journalctl -xe` can give insights into what might be failing during startup.
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Yep, you mentioned you've got access to tty, so you’re in a good spot. You can try reinstalling KDE Plasma using `sudo pacman -S plasma-desktop` again to make sure everything is set. If that doesn't work, consider trying a different desktop environment, like XFCE or GNOME, just to see if that resolves the black screen issue.
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CodeWizard99: How do I actually reinstall it from tty? I can get into tty, but I’m a bit lost on the commands.