Manjaro stuck with blinking "_" after GRUB

[osomfinch]

Hi. I had Manjaro XFCE up until today's update. Afer I installed the update, system crashed. After reboot, I got stuck with a blinking "" after GRUB.
I decided not to tinker and installed Manjaro Cinnamon edition from a flash drive. It worked fine; I was able to log in into Manjaro. Didn't have time to run the updates so I turned off the laptop and when I returned later an turned on the laptop I got the blinking "" again.
I am able to press ctr-alt-f2 but don't know what to do from there.
Please help me fix the issue.

Thank you!

[xircon]

@zimudec

I updated manjaro-system and rebooted the computer.

The system did not start, and the cursor was blinking. What I did was the following:

1- ctrl + alt + F2 and log in.
2- sudo pacman -Syy.
2- At the end, sudo pacman -S archlinux-keyring.
3- At the end, sudo pacman-mirrors -g (Without this, the system does not find certain packages for the update).
4- At the end, sudo pacman -Syu.
5- At the end, reboot. It started perfectly.

Try this

[Annoyingduck]

Are you using Nvidia drivers by chance?

[osomfinch]

Tried everything and it didn't help. After reboot I get the same blinking thing. I guess I will have to reinstall the system once again.

[osomfinch]

No. Why? Did you want to blame everything on proprietary software?

[veb_yw]

Hi. I reinstalled Manjaro i3 17.0 and immediately did this. It worked. Just wanted to say the process will ask for confirmation to replace the mirrors, which I did. Many thanks!

I am a newbie by the way. Just installed Manjaro i3 a week ago!

[xircon]

Not a Manjaro newbie, but started using i3 last week..... Still finding my feet.