black screen after boot [solved]

lith/heli · 2021-10-20 15:04:57

after booting from grub i get a black screen and doesnt go to the gnome login screen.
i can still press ctrl alt f3 to get to the terminal screen

i think this has to do with drivers because i installed a new driver for my nvidia graphics card and now this happened

Last edited by lith/heli (2021-10-20 21:04:53)

Trilby · 2021-10-20 15:09:53

lith/heli wrote:

i think this has to do with drivers because i installed a new driver for my nvidia graphics card and now this happened

Ok, then tell us about that. Which driver did you install? Do you mean you just updated to a newly released version, or did you actually change drivers? What did you change from? Did you try reverting this change?

You should also post a journal from a boot that results in this black screen.

Last edited by Trilby (2021-10-20 15:10:33)

lith/heli · 2021-10-20 15:12:38

i installed the nvidia beta driver, then i noticed that in Minecraft it wasnt actually using my card but intergrated graphics so i uninstalled all the beta stuff and reinstalled the normal Nvidia drivers and then boom black screen

where do i get this journal?

lith/heli · 2021-10-20 15:24:39

okay i got the journal here it is
https://transfer.sh/toKr7M/journalctl.txt

Trilby · 2021-10-20 16:24:58

That journal covers many different boot ups, but yet also seems somehow filtered (each boot's journal is very very short / incomplete). What command was used to generate that? Please use the following, which will also post it to a file sharing site that will not require others download it to view it:

sudo journalctl -b 1 | |& curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io

This will return a ix.io link that you can post here to share the journal.

Last edited by Trilby (2021-10-20 16:25:38)

lith/heli · 2021-10-20 16:28:18

i used "journalctl > journalctl.txt" then uploaded it to that site by looking at a command online
and here it is http://ix.io/3Ckk

Last edited by lith/heli (2021-10-20 16:29:03)

Megalex · 2021-10-20 17:12:41

Had this problem after installing Nvidia drivers.

Had to delete the file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf

lith/heli · 2021-10-20 17:20:01

didnt work

Khere · 2021-10-20 18:35:48

Maybe the error happen because gnome try to start while the graphic device is not ready.
Enabling KMS could solve your issue : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel … _KMS_start
If it doesn't work by using the tty post the output of

sudo systemctl start gdm

lith/heli · 2021-10-20 20:07:28

i added the nvidia kms settings rebuild my mkinitpcio and rebooted sadly nothing happened

and when i do "sudo systemctl restart gdm" it gives no output just blank and a new line to start typing again

seth · 2021-10-20 20:13:54

lith/heli wrote:

i used "journalctl > journalctl.txt" then uploaded it to that site by looking at a command online
and here it is http://ix.io/3Ckk

Why does it say "Oct 15"?
…
Boot, move to a console (ctrl+alt+f3), run

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io

and post the url you get.

Edit: typo'd journalctl.

Last edited by seth (2021-10-20 20:15:54)

lith/heli · 2021-10-20 20:24:58

i already did that command thats the link in the message youre replying too but here it is again.
http://ix.io/3Clx

idk why it says october 15th might be a misconfiguration

edit: i typod the command 1 second
edit 2: updated the link

Last edited by lith/heli (2021-10-20 20:27:34)

seth · 2021-10-20 20:40:00

It's not a misconfiguration but a different boot and the new journal has the current date but no trace of the nvidia driver whatsoever.
The kernel nvidia module isn't there but since nouveau isn't loaded either, it's probably still blacklisted.

pacman -Qs nvidia

lith/heli · 2021-10-20 20:43:07

here is the output of the command
https://imgur.com/a/2qnrMQ4

seth · 2021-10-20 20:56:47

Don't post images of text, you now know how to paste it directly.

Why do you have bumblebee installed? This doesn't look like an optimus system?

pacman -Qikk nvidia

Also see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA#Early_loading - esp. the part about adding the modules to the initramfs.

lith/heli · 2021-10-20 21:04:29

oh that was the problem!! i thought bumblebee was part of the nvidia prime render thing, i removed it and its dependencies and it works now!

also im sorry i didnt know the same command worked for this ill remember it

thanks allot for helping me

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