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Hello everybody.
New member here...

I'm a long time Linux Mint user, and recently I decided to give Arch Linux a try.

Long story short, I installed Arch the old fashioned way, via command line in CLI, with both the linux and linux-lts kernels.

After the latest update from lts-5.18.83 to lts-5.18.84, I can no longer login with the LTS Kernel.
For the LTS boot, after the message post, the keyboard is dead, so I cannot even type anything, like to maybe login to the TTY and such...

Regular Linux Kernel, Kernel Linux 6.0.12-arch1-1 x86_64 logs in just fine, so I can still use the laptop and try to repair whatever is wrong with the LTS kernel.

I am using rEFInd as my bootloader, on an old Acer ROG G75JX laptop.

Here is my neofetch output:

Code:

                  -`                    archdoru@Asus-ROG-G75JX 

                  .o+`                  ----------------------- 

                `ooo/                  OS: Arch Linux x86_64 

                `+oooo:                  Host: G750JX 1.0 

              `+oooooo:                Kernel: 6.0.12-arch1-1 

              -+oooooo+:                Uptime: 8 mins 

            `/:-:++oooo+:              Packages: 1111 (pacman) 

            `/++++/+++++++:              Shell: bash 5.1.16 

          `/++++++++++++++:            Resolution: 1920x1080 

          `/+++ooooooooooooo/`          DE: MATE 1.26.0 

        ./ooosssso++osssssso+`          WM: Metacity (Marco) 

        .oossssso-````/ossssss+`        Theme: Arc-Dark [GTK2/3] 

      -osssssso.      :ssssssso.        Icons: oxygen-mint9-arch [GTK2/3] 

      :osssssss/        osssso+++.      Terminal: mate-terminal 

    /ossssssss/        +ssssooo/-      Terminal Font: Monospace Bold 16 

  `/ossssso+/:-        -:/+osssso+-    CPU: Intel i7-4700HQ (8) @ 3.400GHz 

  `+sso+:-`                `.-/+oso:    CPU Usage: 2% 

 `++:.                          `-/+/  GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M 

 .`                                `/  GPU Driver: NVIDIA 470.161.03 

                                        Memory: 1359MiB / 32020MiB

Things I have tried so far:
Rollback to the previous LTS version 5.18.83 - still will not boot the LTS kernel
re-update to LTS-5.18.84 did not work either
un-install, reboot and re-install LTS-5.18.84
re-install nvidia-470xx-dkms, and also re-install nvidia-470xx-utils still no joy... :(
re-install intel-ucode did nothing either.

Here's the boot post snapshot I took with my phone:

https://imgbox.com/82xILTrT

I also tried to re-install rEFInd as well as to edit my /boot/refind_linux.conf

Code:

        FROM:

"Boot with minimal options"  "ro root=UUID=ae544fdc-edcd-4040-b8e2-feef77c713d1 video1920x1080"

        TO:

"Boot ArchLinux"  "root=UUID=ae544fdc-edcd-4040-b8e2-feef77c713d1 video1920x1080 rw"

Yet the LTS kernel will not boot. Like I said already, the latest Linux kernel boots OK.

Please help. Thanks.