Cant boot into live environment, stuck at graphical interface

Issues & Assistance
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Hello there,

I need help running the live environment from a usb created with balena etcher.
I boot into the nvidia version of the live environment but the boot is always stuck at:

[ ok ] Reached graphical interface

I reckoned it has something to do with the graphics (duh) and tried starting plasma manually with X11 and with Wayland.

liveuser@CachyOS ~]$ startplasma-x11
$DISPLAY is not set or cannot connect to the X server
liveuser@CachyOS ~]$ startplasma-wayland
QIODevice: :readLine (QFile, "/home/liveuser/.config/kdedefaults/package"
e not open
/usr/bin/xrdb: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/xrdb: Can't open display ´´
/usr/bin/xsetroot: unable to open display ´´
QPixmap: QGuiapplication must be created before calling defaultDepthO.
QPixmap: QGuiapplication must be created before calling defaultDepthO.
org.kde.startup: "kdeinit5shutdown" QList() exited with code 255
startplasma-wayland: Shutting down...
startplasmacompositor: Shutting down...
startplasmacompositor: Done.
liveuser@CachyOS ~]$

I tried unplugging 1 of my monitors and switched them around to no avail.

My System Specs are:

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz   4.00 GHz
16,0 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
3440 x 1440 x 165Hz Screen via DP
1920 x 1080 x 60Hz Screen via Hdmi
Running from a Intenso Alu Line 64gb USB-Stick via USB3.0

I really want to try CachyOS and hope you can help me. If you need more information just tell me and i try to provide some.

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Do not use Etcher use Ventoy instead. For Arch based OS’s like CachyOS just install Ventoy from the terminal. For Windows download the executable from the link in the article.

https://itsfoss.com/use-ventoy/

3

Thanks for the reply.
the reason i used etcher is because i already tried using ventoy. This did not work. Thats why i looked up the CachyOS install guide where Etcher is the first recommendation on how to create a bootable stick. When using Ventoy i had the same issues as explained before.

I can try Ventoy again but i don’t expect a different result.

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If you still have an issue it’s most likely the ISO and not Ventoy itself. Garuda had to include a fix for their dev builds and official release and we can now once again use Ventoy.

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Yeah, I tried reinstalling ventoy and redownloading the iso. Still no difference.

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The thing is: if its a problem with the iso i cant be the only one with this problem.
Is there a way to get an older version of the iso? Maybe i can try if an older version works.

7

It would be nice if the devs weighed in instead of spending time wrongly banning someone and not banning the person they should have.

8

Try it with GRUB 2.

Other users have had success with this setting, but unfortunately not all of them.

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Also did not work.

But i worked around the problem:
I found an older iso and tried that with sucess. The live environment booted up fine and i was able to just install CachyOS normally!