Grey screen after update. Can't sign in.
I've managed to boot into my desktop two times by spamming buttons. Sometimes after 10 minutes, part of the sign in user dialogue shows. And if I'm lucky i can hit return on it before it randomly disappears again. (I don't have a password set). Its exceptionally broken. I can hit ctrl alt f2. But not sure where to go from there? Can i bootup the gnome desktop without the login ui from the terminal?
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Can you get to the a tty by pressing ctrl alt <number between 2-7>? (you should see a text login prompt)
I will try. 👍
Nothing seems to happen there.
do you know if your running bazzite or bazzite nvidia?
Nvidia.
Bazzite gnome nvidia stable
I have switched from wayland (default) to x11 which has worked well enough for a month +. Don't know if that is any useful information.
dont quote me on this but i think they may have removed x11 in the update to f40
but you should still be able to get to the tty
Oh. Does it also come with the 555 driver or something?
Ah
you could try blacklisting the nvidia module in the kernel command line from grub (if your using grub)
10 minutes later xD
i have no idea
its odd
Strange. Yeeeh. I'll Google around a bit and learn a little about what tty is.
tty in most cases is just the textonly terminal
but it does have its own definition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TTY
TTY
TTY may refer to:
Ah. And it's different from the ctrl alt f2 one?
no
but there are more then one so if f2 doesnt work you can try f3,f4 etc.
Ah. F2 did work.
sorry i mistyped earlier
if you've got the login screen can you login or does it not work.
if you need to get back from a diferent tty i think the login is most likely on tty1 (ctrl+alt+f1)
I got in from there. But it's hit and miss. Right now I'm in.
This time it booted without gnome extensions on. So I plan on trying to disable all and see if that fixes it. But i bet those have nothing to do with the login screen. Just strange again.
But if i could boot in from the tty that would be awesome.
you can run
Superuser do (Do as another user defaults to root)
one of systemd's command line interfaces
subcommand disables a service
the gnome login screen service
then reboot
Ooooh
so that just nukes the entire login?
and sends you streight to desktop?
no
it sends you to the tty
😄 But how would I boot up desktop from there then?
you can login on the tty and then run gnome-session i think to get a desktop
I actually tried running "gnome-session" from the tty before, which did nothing. But I'll give it a shot
but if your testing this will remove the login screen so you dont need to wait for it if thats the delay
I see. I am able to enter tty right away. even when the login screen is not fully loaded.
But. Disabled it sounds like fun regardless. Restarting now 😄 (I'll be on my mobile)
Appriciate your help a lot btw, ty 🙂
Nothing happens after that
you can try startx
That got me in!
Thank you!! 🍺
if you want to just use the computer and not have to deal with the tty you can try gdm auto login
https://help.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/stable/login-automatic.html.en
you will need to re enable gdm for that tho so if thats slow it may not be a viable solution
but there are other ways to do autologin so just look it up if gdm doesnt work