Wont boot after updating from 40 to 41
After performing a system update my OS won't boot anymore. It stucks after GRUB selection. Are there any fixes for that?
How do i manually remove the version 41 to retry the update, maybe there was an error in the process i didn't notice
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I FIXED THE PROBLEM 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥
Fedoara 41 dont support X11 anymore. My Gnome runs on x11. So i did this:
Choose version 41 in Grub and start it normally.
When booted, press CTRL + ALT + F3...
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* When you in grub select the second option in your list (OSTREE 1) that should be your image before you did the update.
* Then it would be good to turn off automatic updates with the terminal command
ujust toggle-updates.
* rpm-ostree rollback will swap OSTREE 1 and OSTREE 0 around in the boot options so then you don't have to manaully select version 40 to boot
* Manually do an ujust update when you feeling adventurousI’m having the same issue as the OP and I’ve tried reinstalling the update numerous times. Is there anything else we can try to make this work and boot with 41?
This is where I get stuck, after GRUB selection
41 worked for me until a day or two ago; now its just a black screen after SDDM/login ... wish i could be of some help; looking for an answer for this myself
PS I had to rollback to 40, which works for now
Yes I rolled back to 40 too
Welp, this isn’t solved for me 🫠
its more a workaround, but it fixes my system. I guess you have to switch to the broken version without gui and perform updates till it works again 😄
Enter grub
move to version 41
press e to edit boot
move to line which starts with linux and press END add a whitespace and the number 3
CTRL+x or F10 to boot
update
maybe this solves your problem https://youtu.be/gE1ff72g2Gk?si=iGiHCozXPQ-RsxdG
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Thanks mate, I’ll give it a go once I get home
If you are in commandline mode you can start your gui with /usr/bin/startx (if you use x11) or use the command given in the video.
I could start x11 but it lags and crashes, so i guess an update will fix this. Better stick to version 40 till problem is solved 😂
Just a note with the video. You'd probably want to downgrade to the last Fedora 40 release. So it would be something like
bazzite-rollback-helper rebase stable-40.20241020.0 when you feeling adventurous then you can jump back to stable with bazzite-rollback-helper rebase stableThis is giving me so much head ache that I might as well just delete this drive and install 41 fresh.
did it help?
Haven’t been able to try it yet
Solution
I FIXED THE PROBLEM 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥
Fedoara 41 dont support X11 anymore. My Gnome runs on x11. So i did this:
Choose version 41 in Grub and start it normally.
When booted, press CTRL + ALT + F3
do the login
sudo nano /etc/gdm/custom.conf
set WaylandEnabled to True
reboot and try again version 41
Nice
Gotta give it a shot
Good Luck 😄
I hope it doesn’t break discord streaming again. That’s the only reason I was using X11
Didn’t work for me mate 🥲
Wayland is set to true
i wrote you a pm
RE: bazzite 41 black screen boot issue - not sure if this is the correct thread to post this, but appending 'noapic' to boot params solved bazzite 41 booting into a black screen for me. (if reading that makes no sense: press 'e' on highlighted 41 build in grub menu, find the line of text that starts with 'linux'; add 'noapic' to the end of said line; don't use 'quotes')
Thanks, I’ll try that tomorrow
unclesams problem is that he cant switch from x11 back to wayland. we tried the obvious custom.conf modification with WaylandEnable=true but after reboot the system still picks x11
aha. i was wondering if i have the same problem myself w bazzite 41; was going to try and add it manually today
BUT - RE: the bazzite 41 black screen issue i referenced yesterday - despite being totally unrelated to unclesam's issue - i think i spoke too soon; bc while i was able to access the desktop, the gaming performance was unplayable, which turned out to be irrelevant for the time being as the 'noapic' option only worked the one time
anyway i still have the same problem as unclesam, but the complete opposite; cuz when i have managed to boot into b41 i havent been able to switch back to x11 - so i havent been able to confirm if wayland has anything do with my problem...
From what I understand you can't go back to X11 because it isn't supported in 41 anymore, only Wayland. I'm stuck with X11 right now
I recommend to create a new Thread since this is marked as fixed and i think people will likely read an unfixed thread.
@unclesam.pt your problem is clearly the impossible switch from x11 to walyand. I think there is hope to fix, without reinstalling the whole system
@swayze_mane i could start gui while booting with blackscreen, we will not talk about the performance xD (it crashed after a time). Make sure you are running wayland instead of x11. Try to get an Error Log this will help to solve the problem
UPDATE: dont wanna jinx it, but i'm now successfully reaching the desktop after rolling back to the first bazzite 41 release (which was working for me initially) and running
rpm-ostree reset from grub
i'm certain i've tried this already, but alas i am noob so one can only guess what other shenanigans i was inadvertently up to when it was unsuccessful🤣