04-06-2020, 03:57 PM
Hi,
I am new to the Pine community and I am not sure whether this is the right thread to post this problem, so please forgive if this is deemed to be the wrong place.
I recently flashed Manjaro kde plasma 20.02 using the factory image and installer. The install went smoothly and I enjoyed Manjaro very much (smoothest OS experience on PBP so far).
The other day I uninstalled a some package using pacman (I can't remember exactly which one) and the window manager and touchpad during the froze during the de-install but I could get into the tty console using CTRl+F2 and do an orderly shutdown.
Since than PBP will show the boot splash and boot into the TTY console. At the login I can no longer login as the user (with sudo privileges) under which the crash happened but I can still login as root. So FS seems to be intact.
I tried to reflash Manjaro from the same mSD card I used a couple of weeks ago but it will not boot. On power on the red LED is on, then turns green but screen remains dark, pressing ESC when green LED is on does not help. I even reflashed the mSD card, no change.
Rebooting to console, logging in as root and inserting the mSD, the OS recognizes the card as /dev/mmsbl1 but I cannot mount it (giving an error message that mount to /mnt/sd failed and that helper programs may be needed)
Question 1:
Is there a way to recover this installation minimally invasive from the console ?
Question 2:
If not, how can run the installer without having to open the laptop to perform hardware hacks (I am an average Linux user)
Thank you very much for any advice.
I am new to the Pine community and I am not sure whether this is the right thread to post this problem, so please forgive if this is deemed to be the wrong place.
I recently flashed Manjaro kde plasma 20.02 using the factory image and installer. The install went smoothly and I enjoyed Manjaro very much (smoothest OS experience on PBP so far).
The other day I uninstalled a some package using pacman (I can't remember exactly which one) and the window manager and touchpad during the froze during the de-install but I could get into the tty console using CTRl+F2 and do an orderly shutdown.
Since than PBP will show the boot splash and boot into the TTY console. At the login I can no longer login as the user (with sudo privileges) under which the crash happened but I can still login as root. So FS seems to be intact.
I tried to reflash Manjaro from the same mSD card I used a couple of weeks ago but it will not boot. On power on the red LED is on, then turns green but screen remains dark, pressing ESC when green LED is on does not help. I even reflashed the mSD card, no change.
Rebooting to console, logging in as root and inserting the mSD, the OS recognizes the card as /dev/mmsbl1 but I cannot mount it (giving an error message that mount to /mnt/sd failed and that helper programs may be needed)
Question 1:
Is there a way to recover this installation minimally invasive from the console ?
Question 2:
If not, how can run the installer without having to open the laptop to perform hardware hacks (I am an average Linux user)
Thank you very much for any advice.
