Last weekend I got a bunch of issues with my home partition, for example some files could not be read, and when I tried to read them I got errors in dmesg saying something like BTRFS critical (device sdb9): corrupt node, bad key. No idea why, but the system was overclocked, so maybe that had something to do with it. I copied what I could of the partition and tried running btrfs check --repair
on it, but that made things worse, deleting a ton of stuff. So I reformatted the partition, now as EXT4 (because screw BTRFS), copied the stuff back onto it, and restored some backups I had of the most important stuff. I managed to save most of the stuff, but not all of it.
However now I am unable to log in graphically. When I try log in, the display manager just freezes, and if I go to a terminal and back I just get a black screen with the cursor on it. I’ve also tried logging in as a different user, in a different display manager, into a different DE, but get the same result. (and yes, I changed fstab, it’s getting mounted properly)
I then tried updating the system, but that didn’t help. I did however get another problem, at the end of the update I got “could not prepare boot variable no space left on device”. Googling about it I found something about deleting /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/dump-*, but I have no such files. The other solution I found was to boot with efi_no_storage_paranoia, so I guess I should try that.
Motherboard: Asus Z97-A
CPU: Core-i7 4790k
GPU: RTX 2080 ti
Driver: Nvidia 410.78