Manjaro bootup freezes on logo before Login

[tophneal]

I just get a black screen with the mouse cursor when I run <sudo systemctl restart sddm.service>

You could checking dmesg. Something simple like

Code:

dmesg | grep error

or

Code:

dmesg | grep sddm

to look for issues SDDM may be having when trying to load. If that doesn't yield much, you could also try journalctl.

Code:

journalctl -p3

will show you all the errors you've had. This will be tedious to sift through, but if the problem isn't actually SDDM (and SDDM is just being affected by another issue) this should help see that.