Every fedora kde install is broken and results in a black screen of death

[ibadullah (ibadullah syed)]

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I am on my tab, my laptop literally has no operating system and when i try installing fedora, it does work, but soon it goes to a black screen in which if i do anything everything shuts down. I tried to reinstall fedora and whatnot but it didnt work even when i etch a new iso image my system says it is broken and curropted or smt

I desperatly need help asap pls. Thisnis my first time using

[ibadullah (ibadullah syed)]

I camtNT TYPE on my tab properly I wanted to say this is my first time trying out d.fedora and if this doesn’t work I’ll have to switch to opensuse tumbleweed. Also pls read the link I attached for some background as I discovered the problem

[computersavvy (Jeff V)]

It is not likely that the media is damaged – and this is a known issue.

It appears that for many on newer systems, especially when creating the usb device on windows, the simple act of mounting the usb device after creation does some change on the device that causes it to fail the media check when first booting, but does not alter the files so it is perfectly fine to install from that device.

Simply use the ‘Start Fedora’ option instead of the ‘Check media’ option.

This refers.

Install media sometimes fail media check at 4.8%

Problem After creating a USB installation medium and trying to boot it, the included “media check” started during boot might report an error at 4.8% and announce that the media is corrupt and shouldn’t be used, even though the media might be technically just fine. [media-check-fail] Generally, when seeing this image, you can be fairly sure that the image is really corrupt and you should verify the checksum of the downloaded image (if you downloaded it manually) and try to create the USB mediu…

As far as the black screen issue that you linked you could try the 3rd option on the initial boot menu of the installer (Troubleshooting) and perform the installation using basic graphics mode which allows installation on almost all systems (even those using nvidia GPUs) without issue.

[ibadullah (ibadullah syed)]

@computersavvy

It appears that for many on newer systems,

Non of my systems are new tho

@computersavvy

especially when creating the usb device on windows, the simple act of mounting the usb device after creation does some change on the device that causes it to fail the media check when first booting, but does not alter the files so it is perfectly fine to install from that device.

Hmmm, I when the error occurred initially, the usb hadn’t come in contact with any microslopian technologia. So it’s probably not that

@computersavvy

Simply use the ‘Start Fedora’ option instead of the ‘Check media’ option.

I did both. The black screen of doom strikes after a short slumber if I start the fedora live environment and install.
and when I check media it also stops at 4.8 with the exact error you linked.
But from my experience the os was struck by the black screen of doom in 2 separate installs so I think it’s fair to assume it is broken.

I really want someone to go to the website and try it because when I do, whatever system I get gets black screen of doomed in just a few hours.

[gnwiii (George N. White III)]

The installer does work for many users and it is not only Windows that sometimes changes metadata on USB drives. When reporting an issue you need to provide enough detail to allow others with similar hardware to reproduce the issue, see: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/inxi-the-help-to-help-your-selves/180413. You can try an installer respin from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/live-respins/ in case your black screen issue was fixed by an update. You should make sure you have all vendor firmware updates as new kernels often require firmware changes.

[theprogram (MatH)]

I think you should install Open Suse.

But first there is a chance you can get your photos back.

Boot into a Live USB desktop. Any Linux will do.

Then mount your hard drive and get those photos!

Best of luck.

[ibadullah (ibadullah syed)]

Thx for the help but I checked, the partition is gone, I am very gratefully I backed my data but I should have backed it all to my next cloud more regularly

[ibadullah (ibadullah syed)]

Sorry man, I can’t type on my tab for some reason, when I do the web page is zooming in and moving when I type. Really buggy also since I did some dumb projects tryna run plasma mobile on it, I can’t reset it until my PC is ready tho

I just properly installed the new latest and it finally worked so problem solved finally, maybe the old one was broken. Thx for helping me. Ima drive it a few days to make sure it doesn’t black screen again

[gnwiii (George N. White III)]

Glad you have Fedora working.

I don’t keep computers in my home, only “out-buildings”, so use a tablet to monitor systems and run updates. There is termius for command-line dnf5: https://www.termius.com/documentation/sync-to-mobile or https://cockpit-project.org/ for packagekit. Before retiring I spent decades using unix or linux for “mission-critical” time-sensitive tasks (mostly batch processing from command-line). I learned to have alternatives for times when GUI’s or network interfaces fail, namely a minimal portable computer or more recently, tablet, and USB ethernet and/or wifi dongles with good linux support.