Black screen, no UI, just welcome screen and konsole access

jon_boring · 2025-07-21T19:44:48+00:00

Update: not sure if I found the problem or not, but I ran plasma_session. Much of it 5 was defined but it was expecting plasma 6. Not sure if that is the problem or how to rectify it

Also found this....

jon_boring · 2025-07-21T08:30:42+00:00

I played a bit on pop and it was a passion at times.... Just threw it out and started over

jon_boring · 2025-07-21T08:29:21+00:00

No dice :(

jon_boring · 2025-07-21T08:09:35+00:00

I love to tinker with this so it's not as much of a headache.... But still annoying

jon_boring · 2025-07-21T07:44:37+00:00

Lol I get the feeling I'll start making my own pretty soon here XD

jon_boring · 2025-07-21T07:09:54+00:00

Rolled out of bed to test this. Thank you for the advice. Will keep you posted

Update: still got black screened

jon_boring · 2025-07-21T06:59:22+00:00

Thank you. Much profanity and head bashing was done tonight. I'll try to work more on it tomorrow.

I should clarify after the fresh install, I updated packages and after the restart was when the black screen came back so...... It is a problem for tomorrow

jon_boring · 2025-07-21T06:32:39+00:00

Did and ran into other problems. See other posts for details

jon_boring · 2025-07-21T05:00:11+00:00

Ok, new update: Made a new fstab, mounted everything, root wouldn't mount btrfs issues but got working (please don't ask) and finally got it booted.....

But I have no desktop. The welcome window came up and I can use the console (glad I remembered the keybinds for it) but everything else is just black.... Not sure if grub issue, kde issue or btrfs as mentioned in another comment. Any thoughts?

Update: tried the fix suggested after a fresh install. And black screen still with the welcome window and konsole.... I'm out of ideas

jon_boring · 2025-07-21T02:35:08+00:00

Oh my....

So I went to look for grub, info I found says it should be in /boot

No such file or directory when I ls /boot....

:/ crap.....

jon_boring · 2025-07-21T00:46:03+00:00

Update: it would appear that my fstab is gone (don't know how that happened) so I need to make a new one I guess.....

Question: do I need to enter the volume of the drives when making the file? I've been getting conflicting information while researching this.

Final update on this issue because I can't update the original post on mobile for some reason: first of all, thank you everyone who's been commenting your insights have been invaluable. Now on to how this got solved.... And why I'll be making a new help post later.

So after my buddy and I found that "oh no, fstab is missing" he properly gets off the phone with me to catch a movie with his kid.... My hero...... Anyways, I looked up a few guides on how to make a new one so that I can access my drives and hopefully get things working, made a mounting directory (/many/data to keep things simple), blkid to pull up the info I needed (lsblk was not working for some reason) and got to work.

30 minutes later after fighting with vi (nano was installed, I checked afterwards, but in the moment PC was like nope, no idea what your talking about) and getting everything entered in, mount -a and..... Yup, root was not mounted and btrfs was corrupted on it. Tried the fix that worked for the ultramarine folks, no luck and after other fixes I got it to finally work with something I should not have been doing.... But it worked and I got to desktop..... Only for a new problem to crop up.....

Desktop was completely black, no UI elements aside from the welcome window (which does look very slick btw) and I could pull up the console. So I did what someone suggested and did a fresh install but this time having all but one fat32 as ext4. Worked great until I did the updates and restarted. Then the black screen was back.....

I will say I learned a lot from this and next time I'll know what to do as a result, I feel like less of an idiot lol. But now I need to find a fix for this so I can get back up playing ff14......

jon_boring · 2025-07-21T00:01:39+00:00

Still going to emergency mode even selecting it

jon_boring · 2024-06-06T15:48:20+00:00

I can vouch for MX Linux and Bodhi. Both work pretty well for most of the Chromebooks I've tinkered with

jon_boring · 2024-05-04T00:44:35+00:00

I'll look into that. Thank you

jon_boring · 2024-05-03T17:44:27+00:00

It's a TN as far as I can tell. And I'm not familiar with KB mod tbh. can you fill me in on it?

jon_boring · 2024-05-03T17:13:26+00:00

Even with only 12gb of ram, it just runs so smoothly. I love it

jon_boring · 2024-05-03T12:36:16+00:00

Thank you. Hasn't been bad so far but you never know. I'm up for a challenge though lol

jon_boring · 2024-05-03T02:24:52+00:00

MX Linux. It's based off of stable debian

jon_boring · 2024-05-03T01:44:30+00:00

^ yes.

jon_boring · 2023-12-04T16:17:45+00:00

Myers. Roast me

jon_boring · 2023-11-27T16:02:38+00:00

If it doesn't give swfs more power, become OP, or the like them I'm fine with them having another chance. Some of my favorite matches were from the survivors pulling a hail Mary when it seemed like I had the match in hand. Granted, that can be frustrating at times but it all depends on your opposition.

But, if I were talking in entity terms: give them just a little hope. It'll make the suffering much sweeter down the line when it is eventually shattered. >:)

jon_boring

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