Hello, I just installed this distro. Everything from partitioning to assinging a new user seemed straightforward. Only, when I reboot I find that it wont accept me into the XFCE desktop using my login. I set my username to be a variation of my actual name. As in

Real name: Siavash
Username: siawacsh

After three attempts it throws me into the terminal. Here it will accept my username and password. I double checked to make sure I do NOT have caps on.

Does that mean there is some configuration to complete before I can use the system. I read some very high praise of this distro as an out of the box OS.

Would appreciate your feedback.

siawacsh

I'm going out on a limb here, but could it be that the keyboard settings when attempting to log into your XFCE session are incorrect? They may revert back to default ones in the terminal afterwards...

Does it accept you as root? If so, you should be able to troubleshoot from there. You could create another user account, and try to log in with that.

User tools from console:

Also:

Your issues confirms my experiences. I am convinced Manjaro .8.5.2 is very buggy. I was initially persuaded by glowing reviews based around 0.8.4. It's a shame that is not archived as a stable download.
I have been struggling with 8.5.2 for a whole week. I installed XFCE last Sunday. After an uneventful installation, I reboot to find that the desktop would not accept my login. After two attempts it kicked me off into a terminal. The terminal did accept my login with user prompt.

siawacsh@siawacsh$

I tried to follow some of the trouble shooting provided by the techies here. Like check my psswd file, which showed up username. Unfortunately, since I am very rusty with linux terminal commands, the solutions provided by the techies here, such as to check my passwd file which showed I am listed as a user. I checked whether the login problem was relate4d to faulty keboard in a text editor.
The other solutions such as output of dmesg or error logs, just were not helpful or practical since there was no way I knew how to output the output files to an external drive in order to copy over to a working OS. I am rusty on terminal cammands. Nor did I have time research it.

The only other thing I can think of might have been my graphic driver. But that is pure speculation.
I tried to see if Openbox had similar problems. This time the OS installed and allowed me to login to the desktop. However, on second boot it broke my dual boot loader. Fortunately, I had backed up all my data.

However due to time constraints, it'S taken all my spare time, almost a week to rebuild my dual boot system.
So much for Manjaro...