Black screen after compiling some dotfiles (yes i did not use a vm)(still need help lol)

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https://gitlab.com/luca.py/dotfiles

I compiled the above above dotfile and my screen went black. I have some back ups on an external drive that is a tarball xz. I also have an image that is more recent I would like to roll back to if possible. My distro is Arch linux I use btrfs this is my subvolume layout.

thank you.

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Maybe try

Uncompiling the dotfiles?

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I can only cope so hard

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compiling dotfiles 💀

Spoiler alert: things were NOT GOOD

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i deserve to get flamed

this is the last time i try and get hyperland working lol

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Uhh try undoing anything in that x11 folder

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that was*

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Just rice it yourself instead of relying on some installer smh

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i use x11 as my main i thought i was gonna be safe lol

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hyprland

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Yeah, no

Those configs aren't compatible with your display

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💀

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So try undoing that

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oh

okay

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Specifically the i915 one

And uhh prolly modesetting

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yeah Im gonna mount my stuff and try deleting that

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You have an idea where these files could be?

I tried looking in the .conf folder

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/etc/x11

Probably

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xinit and xorg.conf is that one

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Probably?

Try looking at that install script to see where it's actually located

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ah good idea

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yeah try looking there

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aight

wait

wouldn't I have to nano into that file?

there is nothing there

nvm lol

its under ../

🤔

i'm an idiot

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg/Keyboard_configuration

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https://man.archlinux.org/man/xorg.conf.d.5

https://askubuntu.com/questions/4662/where-is-the-x-org-config-file-how-do-i-configure-x-there

it looks like there is special way to access xorg

TIL

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Wut

Is there a config file under xorg.conf.d or not?

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ls xorg.conf.d/ yields nothing

ls -a yields . ..

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Try catting the i915.conf

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cat i915.conf/ from home directory im guessing?

mmh no such file or directory

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any other ideas? lol

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Bro no tf

In /etc/modprobe

Read that install script man

Why are you catting something that's not in your homedir

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Also let me guess, you probably did this on your homedir right

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i'm learning still lol, but I did go to where those files where located and did an ls when i got there with cd

my /var/log isnt mounted actually i should probably mount that subvolume 💀

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Yeah now try catting i915.conf

And not from the home dir

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I must be missing some basic shit here

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Do you use a display manager

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i only use x11 and kde

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Yeah and do you install a display manager

Well I guess yes

Try looking at the display manager's logs

When it fails to start

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aight

wait i use wayland

so xdg

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Why didn't you say so

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Wut

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i am stupid? 💀

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What did you thought xdg was?

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you know what idk man(not assuming your gender) I'm just guessing till something sticks

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haish

Bro just install sddm and get on with it

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pacman -Sy sddm after chroot into /mnt ?

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Don't sync your mirror for a single package

It'll break your system

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aight

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-Syu or just -S

never -Sy

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Also why're you in the live iso

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because the screen goes black when i boot and i cant only see my mouse

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theres a kernel parameter to boot to tty (i forgor it)

also ctrl alt f2 usually works

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Just switch to the tty

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with this

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you could also just disable sddm to make it go to tty

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it took me to the BIOS

if you guys shoot me some documentation that helps as well

I'm a DB guy not a super user

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What

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it should be after booting to the black screen thing

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ah okay

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like once the computer launched arch

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my bad

got it

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it actually works any time after youve booted

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oh i got it

my login came up

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Now look at your display manager's logs

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what the

why are you in zsh-newuser-install

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No fucking idea I’ve never seen this in my life

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its what you get if you install zsh and dont create the config (.zshrc)

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This is the main menu

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just do that last one

q

rn we're trying to fix the gui

you can config zsh later

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Okay 👍

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yea so thats basically just bash

anyway um

you were gonna get sddm right

so um

sudo pacman -S sddm

systemctl enable sddm

sddm-greeter

that should fix your problem

oh wait wait

actually it might not

one sec

@paper seal whats the output of file /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service

this is just checking what program you use for login

since its not working we can just disable it

imma just put out the steps here

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oh

um

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my Ethernet cable just failed 😢

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you sure its the cable?

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well im talking you still if you think its the access point

my desktop is attached to

imma just grab a different cable

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ok

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it doesnt seem to be the cable could throw the steps in here anyways?

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if its not the cable then its probably dhcp client

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type ip address

If you have an ip on the enp0s1 interface, that means you're connected

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you can just run ip a

same thing

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yeah I just don't wanna confuse him

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it could be named something else

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Okay you don't have internet

Uhh try connecting to the wifi

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what

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its right there though

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Oh yeah mb

Didn't see that lol

What's that virbr0 interface though

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@paper seal can you try pinging fsf.org

google.com works too ig

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fsf moment

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libvirt stuff

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its just faster to type

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Wait so he's in a vm?

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idk

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Bro are you in a vm

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oh

dns issue likely

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No

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This is weird

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well i dont wanna figure that out

but anyway

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Let me move to a different access point hang on

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sudo pacman -Rns sddm && sudo pacman -S sddm may work

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Force it

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?

How

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-f

I think

I don't use pacman

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replace Rns with Rddn

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Looks like it worked

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Now start it

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what did

removing sddm? sure

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u forgor the sddm after pacman -S

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cant, it was just uninstalled

btw what i sent is steps for once you have internet

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Oh this

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idk about if you dont

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Fuck

Lol

Welp

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fix your internet (again, prolly dns issue) then sudo pacman -S sddm && sudo systemctl start sddm && sddm-greeter will probably work

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Okay 👍

Im gonna work on the internet issues

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ok

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Do you think this will completely resolve my issue?

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i think it might

not will

its probably the first thing id try though

apart from reading errors which i dont wanna bother with

btw you should test that internet works on iso

if so then maybe youre missing some packages and should pacman -Syu base in a chroot

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Ill give it a try

Look like it works

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just go through the update just in case

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K

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it might be missing something anyway

imma go in 5 min

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Its done

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ok can you try rebooting now

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Im gonna try that command again in tty

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ok

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Rip it didn’t work thanks for trying tho

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you just got $\\LaTeX$'d received a thank you cookie!

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ok

well good luck to you

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@slow beacon it did not work lol screen is still black 💀

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Damn

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Yeah

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Still around?

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Black screen after compiling some dotfiles (yes i did not use a vm)(still need help lol)

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I tried using X configur

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,ti

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The current time for bored amogi is 06:24 PM (CDT) on Mon, 01/05/2023.

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that means it was 8:35 am when you sent that

i go to school

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Oh sorry

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just letting you know

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I only have time in the morning and at night i work lol

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@paper seal wait why not just reinstall sddm

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I could try that i fixed the internet issue today

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like i said you should be able to pacman -S sddm then systemctl enable sddm then sddm-greeter

iirc i said that

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I already tried this solution it didn’t work.

Would it be the same thing?

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wdym be the same thing

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Isnt it the same command as you just wrote down?

Basically a reinstall

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isnt what the same

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This is the same

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As this

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oh yeah

one sec

what exactly happened though

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I get home in home in an hour and half. I’ll show you what happened then

But basically it was still broke

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This is what happened

And screen was still black after restarting

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ok then

let me see

@paper seal do you have an nvidia graphics card

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No everything is and im pretty sure

The chip set in my laptop is amd

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oh

do you have the linux-firmware package installed & up to date

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Pretty sure but i can double check when i get home

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ok this sounds like a driver issue

also i need to know what your gpu is if it doesnt work

so you would get into terminal (iso or not, doesnt matter) and run lspci -k |egrep -i "vga|3d"

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Gpu is on the left hand sides

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its cut off

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oh

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Amd ati 3:00 lucienne

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ok then lsmod |grep amdgpu after booting in the thing

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Will do it in an hour lol

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Was there anything else i needed to do? Or can I reboot? 🤔

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Guess i need to install some stuff lol

https://www.makeuseof.com/application-failed-no-qt-platform-initialized-error-fix/

https://www.makeuseof.com/application-failed-no-qt-platform-initialized-error-fix/

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@paper seal at this point its prolly a waste of time not to switch

.aw gdm

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Arch Wiki: Gdm

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gdm

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try that

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doubt it; it didn't start because it wasn't started correctly id bet

if you really wanna check that it's broken, try sddm-greeter --test-mode

gtg

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so

i'll give it a try

you came back just in time lol

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Should i just go through all the steps in. The wiki ? Or is there a place you think i ought to start?

You know what I think im just gonna do a role back. I have an m.2 i was previously using, i can just role back using that

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ok