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EDIT: I kinda solved it by installing Wayland (with Nvidia card, Ouch!) to replace Xorg. Not sure if this is gonna last though. Perhaps Manjaro is the one I'm gonna throw out FIRST if anything happens from now on.

What should be the first line of defense? Timeshift?

This happened after I installed AUR package masterpdfeditor and 2 applications from github (some hashing algorithm programs, I think they were "Dilithium" and "Latice-based-cryptography-main", one of them was provided by NIST.)

If using GUI: I login, black screen for few seconds, then back at login screen.

If going to ctrl+alt+f2, login successful, then startx, see picture provided (higher quality).

I tried adding a new user, but result is the same.

I have a live usb to do the Timeshift. (I can also chroot if necessary... But I'm not extremely professional)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Master PDF Editor is on Flathub. If anything can be installed as a flatpak, I would try that first. If a program fits in a sandbox, consuming the files that I give it and drawing in its own little window, Flatpak has that down cold. If a program wants the ability to stick its hands into the guts of other programs and system services and shared libraries - that should happen at the distro level or not at all.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I'm not usually one to blame the distro but... as another comment here has stated, "Most stable manjaro experience". Try EndeavorOS, it's manjaro but not bad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

If nothing else, run weston. It's not an amazing wayland server, but it's something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Check your RAM for errors.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago

Most stable Manjaro experience

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

If you have it setup timeshift should work...

But please know that the AUR + Manjaro is not a supported or recommend combination. The AUR is intended to be used with the official Arch repos; Manjaro repos are often weeks or sometimes even up to a month behind. Even the Manjaro devs put a warning for this reason.
Not only that, the Manjaro base packages often aren't even built with the same flags as Arch base packages; which is probably what happened here.
Consider using EndeavorOS or archinstall , else this won't be the last time something like this happens.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

How did you go about installing the other two packages from git? Do you know what directory they were first cloned to? Did you build from source or run an executable like an appimage? Did any of these actions occur prior to the install of masterpdfeditor?

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