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kipsora

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Registered: 2020-07-03

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[SOLVED] GNOME/GDM Black Screen on 3.36.3-1

Hi. I have just got Arch Linux with GNOME/GDM installed. But when I booted PC, only black screen is shown with nothing (that is, I cannot see the login interface and it is just a black screen with no cursor and no mouse).

It seems that the problem is not something new. I googled several answers and they asked to uncomment "WayLandEnable=false" and "systemctl restart gdm" but in my case the results are all the same.

I tried to use sddm for gnome and it works. So I think the culprit could probably be the GDM. I am wondering if there is anything I can do or it's time to switch to KDE .

I've been using NVIDIA 2080 Ti and 3900X. Attached below is the results from "journalctl -p 4" for reference. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/W97Wd9VtMm/

Last edited by kipsora (2020-07-04 04:30:21)

kipsora

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Registered: 2020-07-03

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] GNOME/GDM Black Screen on 3.36.3-1

I found that installing AUR package pulseaudio-bluetooth-a2dp-gdm-fix before the first time of entering GDM causes this problem. So uninstalling the package and then reinstalling it after login into the GUI could resolve this.

The PKGBUILD of that package is here. I suspect the incorrect permission is the cause. I am gonna to report this to that package and close this thread.

Last edited by kipsora (2020-07-04 04:29:58)