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 !!

 

[Zepp]

sorry I can't really help much more, I'm still a relative linux novice

Mint has a pretty large forum community you could ask around there

 

[blueicetwice]

I Foxcloned and on boot got a full listing of all drives.
However, when I tried to load the M2 stick, I got these errors.

Error: no such device
Error: file /boot/vmlinuz-6.9-x86_64 not found
Error: you need to load the kernel first
Error: wife seeing milkman
Press any key to continue..... :<((

Sixteen years of Linux and I am still a novice. Linux has plenty of
issues, which the proponents gloss over.

Zepp, I am a former member of the Mint forum, until I got
censored by one of their "mods."

 

[blueicetwice]

SOLVED:

Mint 22 was reinstalled. Better to spend time in dat process
than continues search and fail.

The dual boot also contained Manjaro, which did not show in the
boot load. My Refind, on a DVD, did present it, nevertheless,
GRUBBY never did, despite hours of attempts.

Finally, I found an article which addressed the issue with the most simple CL instruction.

It was dolt proof.

A massive amount of worthless articles, along with failed advice, made it to the Internet.

Manjaro broke on its own, without any tampering by the operator, nor
updates. Mint, was held hostage by the GRUB mafia. This is most disconcerting, to say the least. :<((

 

[Zepp]

SOLVED:
...

The dual boot also contained Manjaro, which did not show in the
boot load.
Manjaro broke on its own, without any tampering by the operator, nor
updates. Mint, was held hostage by the GRUB mafia. This is most disconcerting, to say the least. :<((

Manjaro has developed a bit of a rocky reputation in a lot of linux communities
and from everything I've read it seems deserved, but they still have their dedicated users/fans

Glad you got it fixed

 

[blueicetwice]

Zepp, I enjoy Danjaro, however, if I have another "major" issue
with it, I will try another disco. Thanks for letting me know of their
problems !