Hello.
Today, I installed Fedora 44 after experiencing many headaches with the last distro I was using. Everything was going completely fine; I installed Fedora, booted into it, moved over my backed up files, and installed all the apps I use. After I installed everything I wanted, I attempted to open system settings, but to no avail. It simply would not open. I guessed that a restart might fix the issue, so I restarted my computer and bam. Black screen. I’ve been completely stumped on how to fix this for a few hours now. I would greatly appreciate any help on how to fix this.
KDE or GNOME? Run inxi and see. Then try reinstalling.
Reinstall rarely fixes things in the linux world.
It fixed it for me!
I’m using KDE.
Then yes reinstall. It worked when I updated my system pratialling (why!) and got the same.
Do you have an nvidia gpu?
If so you will likely need to install the nvidia drivers from rpmfusion.
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My computer that was partial update. Intel.
I have an AMD gpu. AMD 6700 XT, I believe.
That is a failed install then. Not what the OP is seeing.
Update: I tried removing ‘quiet’ from the grub boot menu entry thingamajig. From what I was able to see, there weren’t any errors or warnings. The system booted as usual, then one of those motherboard manufacturer splash screens pops up, disappears, then some more text gets printed out, and then it just hangs on a single unmoving underscore. Bewildering.
When you see that _ it usually mean a few possibilities.
The login manger is failing is possible.
You can usually press ESC and see the last few log messages.
Does that work?
You can usually type Ctrl-Alt-F3 and get a login prompt to allow you to investigate what has happened.
Can you post the output of inxi -Fzxx after installing inxi, sudo dnf install inxi. The inxi output will tell us about that software and hardware you are running.
@superawesomeguy You can do this in a Live USB (the package will not survive a reboot). Current recommendation is to use inxi -ezxx. The output will show you the BIOS version. Recent Linux kernels often require changes to BIOS. Use https://linux-hardware.org to see what versions work for other Linux users who have recent kernels.
Pressing ESC or Ctrl + Alt + F3 does nothing when I’m at the underscore.
Try booting with the previous kernel you have installed from the grub menu.
Does that allow you to login?
The grub menu only has 3 options, one being Fedora Linux (6.19.10-300.fc44.x86_64) 44
Fedora Linux (0-rescue-26061a071d3a4128b4c8d822371adbf2) 44
and UEFI Firmware settings. Booting with either Fedora Linux options still causes the unmoving underscore to appear.
I think this is a new install that has not been updated from the looks of it.
If you boot from the live USB installer you can do a test of the System Settings.
Do the system setting open for you?
System settings opens just fine on the livecd Fedora.
Terminal output should be posted as web-discoverable pre-formatted text (use the </> button). You should be able to do that from the Live USB environment. Since Linux support is largely user to user and many issues are shared across distros you want to make it easy for others with similar hardware and issues to discover this topic.