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#1 2021-05-15 01:53:17

Eigenman
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Gnome black screen w/ blinking cursor

I'm having an issue I've seen various places where I get a black screen with a blinking underscore in the top left corner when booting. Even with my gdm.service active, it won't boot to Gnome. Other times, it will randomly boot to Gnome after i've started and stopped gdm.service enough times from TTY.

1) I've added my legacy driver radeon to the KMS modules = () section already which hasn't worked.

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#2 2021-05-15 02:25:22

Eigenman
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Re: Gnome black screen w/ blinking cursor

I resolved my issue by uncommenting 

#WaylandEnable=false

in 

/etc/gdm/custom.conf

from the GDM troubleshooting guide https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GDM#GD … ite_cursor

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#3 2021-05-15 07:57:00

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Re: Gnome black screen w/ blinking cursor

Sanity check, can you please post the xorg log, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General ?

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#4 2021-05-15 15:52:50

Eigenman
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Re: Gnome black screen w/ blinking cursor

seth wrote:

Sanity check, can you please post the xorg log, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#General ?

I'm a supreme newb and still don't really understand how to read these log files yet, so I hope this is what you mean.

[    11.248] (--) Log file renamed from "/var/log/Xorg.pid-376.log" to "/var/log/Xorg.0.log"
[    11.250] (WW) Failed to open protocol names file lib/xorg/protocol.txt
[    11.251] 
X.Org X Server 1.20.10
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
[    11.251] Build Operating System: Linux Arch Linux
[    11.251] Current Operating System: Linux pc1 5.10.27-1-lts #1 SMP Tue, 30 Mar 2021 13:22:29 +0000 x86_64
[    11.251] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux-lts root=UUID=3347ff0c-8c77-48e1-a16d-4b57dff06f20 rw loglevel=3 quiet
[    11.251] Build Date: 14 December 2020  12:10:29PM
[    11.251]  
[    11.251] Current version of pixman: 0.40.0
[    11.251] 	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
[    11.251] Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[    11.252] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Apr 10 14:03:47 2021
[    11.254] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[    11.255] (==) No Layout section.  Using the first Screen section.
[    11.255] (==) No screen section available. Using defaults.
[    11.255] (**) |-->Screen "Default Screen Section" (0)
[    11.255] (**) |   |-->Monitor "<default monitor>"
[    11.256] (==) No monitor specified for screen "Default Screen Section".
	Using a default monitor configuration.
[    11.256] (==) Automatically adding devices
[    11.256] (==) Automatically enabling devices
[    11.256] (==) Automatically adding GPU devices
[    11.256] (==) Automatically binding GPU devices
[    11.256] (==) Max clients allowed: 256, resource mask: 0x1fffff
[    11.259] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/misc" does not exist.
[    11.259] 	Entry deleted from font path.
[    11.259] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/TTF" does not exist.
[    11.259] 	Entry deleted from font path.
[    11.259] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/OTF" does not exist.
[    11.259] 	Entry deleted from font path.
[    11.259] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/Type1" does not exist.
[    11.259] 	Entry deleted from font path.
[    11.259] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi" does not exist.
[    11.259] 	Entry deleted from font path.
[    11.259] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi" does not exist.
[    11.259] 	Entry deleted from font path.
[    11.259] (==) FontPath set to:
	
[    11.259] (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
[    11.259] (II) The server relies on udev to provide the list of input devices.
	If no devices become available, reconfigure udev or disable AutoAddDevices.
[    11.259] (II) Module ABI versions:
[    11.259] 	X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
[    11.259] 	X.Org Video Driver: 24.1
[    11.259] 	X.Org XInput driver : 24.1
[    11.260] 	X.Org Server Extension : 10.0
[    11.262] (++) using VT number 1

[    11.268] (II) systemd-logind: took control of session /org/freedesktop/login1/session/_33
[    11.284] (--) PCI:*(0@0:1:0) 1002:9853:17aa:3800 rev 0, Mem @ 0xe0000000/268435456, 0xf0800000/8388608, 0xf0500000/262144, I/O @ 0x00004000/256, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072
[    11.285] (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
[    11.285] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
[    11.301] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
[    11.309] (II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    11.309] 	compiled for 1.20.10, module version = 1.0.0
[    11.319] 	ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 10.0
[    11.319] (==) Matched ati as autoconfigured driver 0
[    11.319] (==) Matched modesetting as autoconfigured driver 1
[    11.319] (==) Matched fbdev as autoconfigured driver 2
[    11.319] (==) Matched vesa as autoconfigured driver 3
[    11.319] (==) Assigned the driver to the xf86ConfigLayout
[    11.319] (II) LoadModule: "ati"
[    11.320] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module ati
[    11.320] (EE) Failed to load module "ati" (module does not exist, 0)
[    11.320] (II) LoadModule: "modesetting"
[    11.320] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/modesetting_drv.so
[    11.323] (II) Module modesetting: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    11.323] 	compiled for 1.20.10, module version = 1.20.10
[    11.323] 	Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[    11.323] 	ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 24.1
[    11.323] (II) LoadModule: "fbdev"
[    11.324] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module fbdev
[    11.324] (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
[    11.324] (II) LoadModule: "vesa"
[    11.324] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module vesa
[    11.324] (EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist, 0)
[    11.324] (II) modesetting: Driver for Modesetting Kernel Drivers: kms
[    11.325] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
[    11.325] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for modesetting
[    11.325] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
[    11.325] (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section.
[    11.325] (II) UnloadModule: "modesetting"
[    11.325] (EE) Device(s) detected, but none match those in the config file.
[    11.325] (EE) 
Fatal server error:
[    11.325] (EE) no screens found(EE) 
[    11.325] (EE) 
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support 
	 at http://wiki.x.org
 for help. 
[    11.325] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[    11.325] (EE) 
[    11.492] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.

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#5 2021-05-15 15:58:09

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Re: Gnome black screen w/ blinking cursor

[    11.252] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Apr 10 14:03:47 2021

That log is dated, GDM stores it in the system journal.

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