Eteos
November 10, 2025, 10:34am
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Hi to everyone. Today after updating I delayed to reboot due to a phonecall. When returning to my keyboard I was confronted by the following screen
I tried to follow the instructions, but after pressing ctrl+alt+f1 the screen went black with a cursor blinking and I couldn’t type anything. I waited but nothing happened, so I hard rebooted. Unfortunately the procedure is stuck and I am unable to boot into Cachy. The cachy logo appears and then everything stops in this screen
Please HELP…
cscs
November 10, 2025, 10:42am
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This was an example - you were to use other F# keys to get a TTY.
(It is common for F1 to be reserved.)
Now .. Either or both of the following guides may help;
Introduction
When we have problems gaining access to our systems it is difficult to gather information, let alone fix any problems. Here we will cover common causes and solutions to ‘cachyos wont boot’.
TTY
If your desktop does not load properly then you might still be able to use most, if not all, functionality by dropping to a non-graphical TTY.
By default your system will have multiple TTYs, with each corresponding to an Fx key. Your desktop is assigned to one as well - most often F1.
Yo…
Introduction
CachyOS ISOs provide and enable plymouth by default.
From the ArchWiki :
Which is to say it is not a system-critical component.*
It also has a nasty habit of breaking boot under various circumstances.
In those cases, or simply to avoid the bloat, you can temporarily disable plymouth, permanently disable it, or remove it entirely.
* - Some systems use Plymouth to forward decryption prompts. This may be especially useful in cases where the language and input devices might differ.…
Eteos
November 10, 2025, 10:51am
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Thank you! I will try and see…
Eteos
November 10, 2025, 11:10am
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So following the first tutorial, pressing ctrl+alt+F2, I was asked to login which I did and got a terminal screen.
But… now what do I do to get the graphical environment? Sorry, but I have very small terminal experience.
cscs
November 10, 2025, 11:13am
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It was just to be the first step to doing something or other.
Like finishing updates, ex;
sudo pacman -Syu
Different DE/WM/DMs can be started differently.
Like Plasma has startplasma-wayland and startplasma-x11.
Eteos
November 10, 2025, 11:38am
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So I did a sudo pacman -Syu. It updated some packages. It now boots as usual. Everything seems to be working just fine!
Thank you, thank you and once again thank you!!!