Updated installation after 2 months, black screen after reboot, can access TTY but not sure what to do from here
As above, I've been away from my desktop for a few months while travelling and came back to update it today. I downloaded Linux core 7.2, everything seemed to update fine and prompted for a restart. I restarted things, but once they booted up and got past the initial boot menu, nothing else happens, it just is stuck on a black screen. I can open and log in to the TTY, and have tried sudo pacman -Syyu to see if anything needed to finish updating, and checked the mirrors to see if anything needed work there, but all is reported as stable with nothing to do. What would you recommend trying from here? This is potentially an NVIDIA driver issue, but again, I'm not sure how to update that from TTY, I've never had to use it before. Assistance would be much appreciated!
Final Verdict: the issue was caused by a mismatch between the core linux version and driver version. Using the TTY to download the updated open driver fixed the issue after another reboot. Thanks everyone for the suggestions and advice!