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As I said, I have Arch Linux with the HyDE dotfiles.

I did a sudo pacman -Syu today and after I rebooted the PC, it starts at the login screen (as always), but then, after I logged, I get stuck on a Black Screen.

Any help, pls?

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[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 4 points 3 days ago

Ctrl-alt-Fnumber until you get to a tty shell. Login, run journalctl - f. Ctrl-alt-Fnumber until you get back to login screen, and login. Go back to tty and see what errors got logged.

If you have ssh enabled you can also ssh in and run the journalctl cmd. You'll have to try different F number keys, I dont remember which ones get you a tty and which gets you the login. Start at F1 and move across, but wait a bit, sometimes it can take a while to spawn the TTY.