Hi there!
So today, out of nowhere, my primary computer started giving me a black screen after logging in. Not sure how that happened - the computer worked fine the entire day, then I went away for an hour and then it just refused to work. I get to the login screen normally, I am able to write my password in and it reacts to wrong passwords how it should. However, when it should give me my user desktop, I just get a black screen.
After a mental breakdown, I searched for help and didn’t find much (apologies if I overlooked something), so at least I gathered some data and tried some things, that could perhaps be useful. I am running Fedora Linux (5.19.16-200.fc.x_86_64) 36
on Gnome XORG (EDIT: tried Gnome and Gnome Classic as well - no change). All there is to know about my PC is here: Intel Core i7 6700 @ 3700.89 MHz - CPU-Z VALIDATOR , I use dualboot with Windows 10, which works just fine.
I got to a TTY with CTRL+ALT+F6, and while it mostly worked like it should, I was met with this line when I logged in:
Last login: Mon Oct 24 18:49:15 on tty2
-- onegen: /home/onegen: change directory failed: Permission denied
Logging in with home = "/".
-bash-5.2$
I was able to execute cd ~/
, which worked as expected, and I could read and write files in my home dir, all without any chmod-s or sudo-s. After I pressed CTRL+ALT+F1, it brought me back to the login screen, and after entering my password, I was met with a screen saying “Oh no! Something has gone wrong.”, forcing me to log out - this screen was frozen, and I couldn’t click or press anything, and had to do a hard restart.
I reinstalled GPU drivers, since I read that it’s a common cause. I used sudo dnf remove kernel-headers* *nvidia
and sudo dnf install kernel-headers akmod-nvidia
. No effect. sudo dnf update
did nothing as well. EDIT: I then just straight-up removed the nVidia drivers - no change.
That’s pretty much it, I’d be very happy for any help I can get. Please…I am really desperate and feeling hopeless right now…
Last thing, here are a bunch of command outputs I saw some people asked for on related questions:
dnf list installed \*nvidia*
Installed Packages
akmod-nvidia.x86_64 3:520.56.06-1.fc36 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
kmod-nvidia-5.19.16-200.fc36.x86_64.x86_64 3:520.56.06-1.fc36 @@commandline
nvidia-gpu-firmware.noarch 20221012-141.fc36 @updates
nvidia-settings.x86_64 3:520.56.06-1.fc36 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64 3:520.56.06-1.fc36 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-cuda-libs.x86_64 3:520.56.06-1.fc36 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-kmodsrc.x86_64 3:520.56.06-1.fc36 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686 3:520.56.06-1.fc36 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64 3:520.56.06-1.fc36 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-power.x86_64 3:520.56.06-1.fc36 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
inxi -Fzx
System:
Kernel: 5.19.16-200.fc36.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 2.37-36.fc36
Console: tty 6 Distro: Fedora release 36 (Thirty Six)
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: Z270X-Ultra Gaming v: N/A serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Gigabyte model: Z270X-Ultra Gaming-CF v: x.x serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: American Megatrends v: F8 date: 10/27/2017
CPU:
Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-6700 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Skylake-S rev: 3 cache:
L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 8 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 3544 high: 3993 min/max: 800/4000 cores: 1: 3400 2: 3400 3: 3400 4: 3400
5: 3966 6: 3993 7: 3400 8: 3400 bogomips: 54398
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050] vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: nvidia v: 520.56.06
arch: Pascal bus-ID: 01:00.0
Display: server: X.org v: 1.20.14 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.3 driver: X: loaded: nvidia
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch tty: 128x48
resolution: 1920x1080
Message: GL data unavailable in console. Try -G --display
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 200 Series PCH HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 1-4:2 bus-ID: 00:1f.3
Device-2: NVIDIA GP107GL High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1
Device-3: Trust GXT 258 Microphone type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.19.16-200.fc36.x86_64 running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.59 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: Gigabyte driver: e1000e v: kernel port: N/A
bus-ID: 00:1f.6
IF: enp0s31f6 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
bus-ID: 1-12:4
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 2.69 TiB used: 161.47 GiB (5.9%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 870 QVO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WD1003FZEX-00K3CA0 size: 931.51 GiB
ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: SanDisk model: EMTEC X150 960GB size: 894.25 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 85.95 GiB used: 41.11 GiB (47.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 96 MiB used: 43.1 MiB (44.9%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda2
ID-3: /home size: 136.45 GiB used: 120.31 GiB (88.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda8
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 4.66 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/sda7
ID-2: swap-2 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 38.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 31 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 35%
Info:
Processes: 311 Uptime: 4m Memory: 15.58 GiB used: 1.94 GiB (12.5%) Init: systemd
target: graphical (5) Compilers: gcc: 12.2.1 Packages: 18 note: see --rpm Shell: Bash v: 5.2.2
inxi: 3.3.21
dmesg | grep -iE 'secure|nvidia'
[ 0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,gpt6)/boot/vmlinuz-5.19.16-200.fc36.x86_64 root=UUID=82e09d3d-a866-4df9-88f8-02ffb1a311f4 ro resume=UUID=3ea78bd0-4a83-493e-a02d-92643a2236ea rhgb quiet initcall_blacklist=simpledrm_platform_driver_init rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau nvidia-drm.modeset=1
[ 0.000000] secureboot: Secure boot disabled
[ 0.007021] secureboot: Secure boot disabled
[ 0.082886] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,gpt6)/boot/vmlinuz-5.19.16-200.fc36.x86_64 root=UUID=82e09d3d-a866-4df9-88f8-02ffb1a311f4 ro resume=UUID=3ea78bd0-4a83-493e-a02d-92643a2236ea rhgb quiet initcall_blacklist=simpledrm_platform_driver_init rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau nvidia-drm.modeset=1
[ 5.697691] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input20
[ 5.697927] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=7 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input21
[ 5.697984] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=8 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input22
[ 5.698033] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=9 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input23
[ 5.698086] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=10 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input24
[ 5.698136] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=11 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input25
[ 7.172186] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[ 7.172198] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[ 7.188950] nvidia: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
[ 7.258970] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 235
[ 7.259828] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: vgaarb: changed VGA decodes: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem
[ 7.473911] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 520.56.06 Thu Oct 6 21:38:55 UTC 2022
[ 7.562046] nvidia_uvm: module uses symbols nvUvmInterfaceDisableAccessCntr from proprietary module nvidia, inheriting taint.
[ 7.588156] nvidia-uvm: Loaded the UVM driver, major device number 511.
[ 7.639382] nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms 520.56.06 Thu Oct 6 21:22:53 UTC 2022
[ 7.645140] [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Loading driver
[ 8.540245] [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 20160202 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0