After I had done an absolutely massive update, my Fedora installation has finally kicked the bucket. I’m typing this on my phone, but I took a video of the issue. I did a bunch of web searching, but w/o any concrete error, I can’t find the root cause. Most likely a graphics driver update must’ve done it in. Weird, because it had absolutely no issues on Wayland and it’s AMD. Sucks though, as I was really enjoying this distro.
I installed a Brother printer driver via a janky Bash script. I know, I know
GRUB flickers for a bit and then is fine. When rebooting from Ubuntu it didn’t flicker at all. I tried to launch the Gnome shell from the tty and it core dumped. There was also something about IBus aborting. I’m worried that the update carpet bombed my entire installation. I wonder if there is some sort of system repair tool that can replace system files.
GDM isn’t flickering but just closing and opening. (You can’t really see it in the video, but GDM shows the fancy animation everytime.) I followed this guide I managed to get to the tty again. Then following the solution to this issue on the Unix & Linux Stack Exchange, I entered sudo systemctl start gdm and managed to get as far as a gray screen w/ the top bar in Gnome. But then that was just too much for my system and it crashed. Interacting w/ anything other than the login selector in the center of the screen in GDM crashes it as well. One of the first times it crashed it spat out some error about general protection fault. I’m thinking a graphics driver update cooked Gnome, still weird considering AMD is supposed to not cause issues.
