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Mane25

(F34) Hanging after boot

Hi all; I'm having a problem today after applying yesterday's updates. Everything seems to boot fine with no errors but after "starting GNOME display manager" the screen goes blank with just the underscore cursor in the corner. It doesn't progress from there. If I press the power button it will shut down normally.

My setup is fairly vanilla, no funny stuff like nvidia drivers. Its an install I've had since F31. Any tips for troubleshooting/recovering would be much appreciated.

UPDATE: I decided to nuke and reinstall since I have backups. Was fine on first boot but I immediately did a dnf upgrade and have the same problem after rebooting.

I didn’t pay much attention as to what was being upgraded yesterday (apart from noticing that there were a lot!), evidently some update pushed on or just before 2021-05-15 has broken GDM for me. I’m not sure how to proceed.

Posted May 16, 2021, 9:08 AM UTC · edited

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danielfgom•

Do you have a backup and and live usb? If so, nuke and pave. (Wipe it and.re-install)

If not, let's hope someone with way more knowledge than me replies here....

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Mane25OP•

Yeah, that's always the other option but I'm hoping to not have to.

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screwyouimnotme•

I'm having the same problem. It seems like some recent update has busted wayland in general. I was able to switch terminals via ctrl-alt-f2 and login that way, but I couldn't launch either gdm or gnome manually; they both stall and have to be killed via ctrl-c.

I've gotten around this by installing lightdm. I still can't launch gnome on wayland, but gnome on x still works, so the system is usable.

I've also had weird issues with Software lately, which may or may not be related. In particular, it's repeatedly telling me that there's an update for Freedesktop Platform 20.08.11, but the update never finishes installing. Additionally, dnf update tells me I'm up to date. Something has gone very wrong somewhere.

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screwyouimnotme•

I did a little more investigating and found this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1960937

It seems like a problem with the radeon driver, and switching to amdgpu supposedly fixed it.

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Interesting-Union-69•

Those two issues are'nt related...

I'm on a T480s and also have that hanging "Freedesktop Platform 20.08.11" update.

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screwyouimnotme•

Yeah, I figured when I found the bug in my other comment. The busted update still makes me a little concerned, but it hasn't had any obvious negative effects (besides not working) so I haven't looked into it any further. Hopefully it'll clear up with time.

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