Black Screen of Death

[blueicetwice]

After several months, the newly installed Mint OS began to have issues.
Installed on a new NVME stick, it would begin the loading as usual, with
the Mint logo appearing, then it would stop and axe for the user's name and
login.
All attempts to login in the "TTy1" mode have failed. Is there another work-a-round ?

If there is, I have no clue as to how. Any helf would be kindly appreciated.
I do have the OS backed up on two HDDs, if need. I could clone to clone the devices.

This is more than likely a Grub issue. After spending more than 12 hours, I am out of ideas.

DEATH TO GRUB.

 

[Zepp]

what happens, what does the output say when you try to login with TTY?

I had an issue with Fedora Cinnamon failing to load and had to reinstall cinnamon-desktop from terminal to get it to login to the session.

not sure if this is your issue but you could try:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install --reinstall cinnamon
sudo apt install --reinstall mint-meta-cinnamon

 

[blueicetwice]

Hi Zepp: When I try to login it fails each and every time. Is there another trick to open Mint ?

I can not use your suggestions as I can not get pass the login screen.

 

[blueicetwice]

I loaded the live DVD and tried making the changes you suggested.
Nothing worked.
I am done blanking around and wasting my time, Zapp.

I will clone the sucker and hope it works !!