Hi.
I had these same problems, or at least seemingly the exact same symptoms.
I think posting in this thread is the right call because my hardware, and therefore the install itself?, are different, so it may be useful for troubleshooting for others.
Differences are
Hardware
MoBo: MSI MAG X870E tomahawk wifi.
CPU: AMD 9950X3D
GPU1: Radeon RX 9070XT
GPU2: Radeon Integrated
OS: OMLx ROME 2
It was a fresh install of
OpenMandrivaLx.rolling-snapshot.20250615.4119-plasma6x11.znver1.iso
(I think it was build 4119, I wrote it on the usb but it’s a little smudged and I have since overwritten the usb with build 4292
It installed and booted fine. Then the first thing I did was
sudo dnf distro-sync --refresh --allowerasing
I then got the exact same behaviour as described above, both the booting to tty, restarting sddm bringing back the gui, and the (as yet unresolved) updates giving the
Failed to resolve the transaction:
Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: systemd
errors.
I noticed at this point that neofetch was reporting the OS as
OpenMandriva Lx 25.11 (ROME) Rolling x86-64
I thought x86-64 was the intell version only, so thinking I may have burned the wrong iso last time (was sort of rushed at the time), I re-downloaded the latest version of the correct zen version ISO
OpenMandrivaLx.rolling-snapshot.20251109.4292-plasma6x11.znver1
I check the download against both the md5 and sha256 checksums and both matched.
I reinstalled again using ventoy, and a second time using a directly burned USB (using BalenaEtcher)
Both times have produced the same behaviours.
- The system boots to log-in screen fine
- After log-in it sits on tty1 with nothing but a blinking cursor
- I can switch to tty2, 3 etc
- tty2 shows what I assumeis the OMLx Live environment since the “Install OpenMandriva” shortcut is there.
- Running the installer from there requests my password, then the installer pops up a warning “There are no partitions to install on.”
- Neofetch is still reporting the OS as Rolling x86-64
So I am now thoroughly confused.
I am still thinking this could be directly related to the issues reported in this thread, so I will put this post in here just on the off chance it helps at all.
If the mods think it would be best in it’s own support thread, let me know.