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Arch installation did exactly what I told it to do, which was pretty stupid. [Edit: Solved] (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by superkret@feddit.de to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml

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So this is completely on me:

I installed Arch
I installed the plasma desktop without any additional programs
I installed sddm and told it to launch plasma desktop
I rebooted

And it did what I told it to do perfectly:

I'm now within plasma desktop.
I have no terminal emulator installed, so no way of accessing a command line from within the GUI.
Whenever I reboot, I get put back into plasma desktop.
I tried to switch to a different tty with Ctrl+Alt+F-keys but that key combo seems to be used for additional desktop sessions instead (shows me the sddm login again).
I tried creating a shell script that launches pacman and installs a terminal, but I can't, since I don't have a text editor installed.

Help!

[Edit: Solved. I was able to go to a different tty after disabling function keys]

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[–] superkret@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Thanks, checked that already. Yeah, booting from USB is a good solution. But now, I'm determined to fix this from within ;)

[–] Ooops@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

That's basically the one universal solution... And after chrooting, you are "inside" your system cough

[–] BaalInvoker@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 1 year ago

Then chroot from usb and install a terminal