Tried to change to X11 in SDDM and now laptop doesn't boot

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I changed to X11 following these instructions:

https://forum.garudalinux.org/t/wayland-is-stuttery-how-to-x11-on-boot/

However, after I restart I get the following error:

[FAILED] Failed to mount /sysroot
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for Initrd Root File System
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for Mountpoints Configured in the Real Root

EDIT: I’ve reinstalled KDE garuda, and I don’t want to touch again something related to X11, but something seems wrong with the option on SDDM to always start with X11.

UPDATE: strangely, if I close the open session and open a session of X11 it works as expected. However I’m afraid of trying again to setup X11 session from the start with SDDM and ruin again my installation.

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Which bootloader do you use , refind ? Systemd boot , grub ?

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Its the bootlader used by default when installing Garuda in a disk, i.e., grub (at least it seems grub, as far as I can tell you, as booting the laptop it appears the grub menu).

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Seems it is mismatching the initrd, initramfs and kernel files. Perhaps your grub.cfg was getting messy ?

Perhaps you wanna try the lts kernel to see if this is a kernel related issue which I suspect not.

Run:
sudo pacman -S linux-lts linux-lts-headers
And reboot. See if it fixes it.

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Thank you for the tips. The installation was clean. However in this moment I need a working laptop so I can’t experiment at this moment, maybe in the future I will try to do it.

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Ok. I tried again to setup X11 in SDDM after updating the system and taking an snapshot, and it worked! I don’t know what could happen the first time to broke the system, anyway it works now so I can close this question.

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