Fedora 43 plasma black screen + gnome not opening any softwares

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Hey I upgraded to 43 now when I log to plasma the screen is just black. It lets me log into gnome but in the gnome any of the softwares is not opening.

I tried bunch of stuff with no working solution

Any help would be nice, thanks.

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Did you mean ‘upgraded’?
Your tags have both KDE and Workstation. Those are 2 very different DEs and probably not both installed, so which are you using?

Details on what you have tried and what the hardware is would be very beneficial to us when we try to answer your question.
The hardware would mostly be shown with posting the output of inxi -Fzxx as preformatted text for us (highlight the pasted text then click the </> button.)

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Yes I am using KDE and I got it working by deleting all the nvdia drivers. By using command

sudo dnf remove \*nvidia\* --exclude nvidia-gpu-firmware

I reinstalled nvidia drivers and got the same issues. Deleted again and working fine, guess I don’t need those drivers lol.

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In your first post you mentioned both Gnome and plasma, and now you mention KDE.
Which is actually true? or are you having similar issues with 2 different DE installs.?

If it works after removing those drivers then it would appear

  1. You failed to try removing ‘rhgb’ from the kernel command line which has been mentioned several times in different threads related to KDE and nvidia as a workaround for the black screen issue. There is also a common issue thread related. Fedora 43 KDE sometimes boots to a black screen
  2. You may have rebooted immediately after installing the nvidia driver so it might have been corrupted and not properly built. It can be rebuilt and signed by running sudo akmods --rebuild --force
  3. You may be seeing issues caused by secure boot and either an unsigned nvidia module or failure to enroll the key into bios as shown at rpmfusion.
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I am new to this stuff and I thought plasma is same as kde plasma. Just mentioned gnome because it was half working and thought that would be some what useful information. I am so sorry and will not be annoying the community anymore. Thanks and good bye.

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It is not an annoyance, but may be confusing. For accurate trouble shooting and suggestions the details do matter.

My comments were not meant to be irritating, but to encourage getting more clear detail for the ability to provide better assistance.

Depending upon which nvidia GPU is installed and what you are doing on the desktop it is quite possible that the default nouveau driver may meet your needs.

If, however, you are playing games or performing other graphics intensive tasks then the nvidia driver may become necessary. The nouveau driver does not enable hardware acceleration on the GPU: That is only done when using the nvidia driver. When using nouveau heavy graphics activities are shifted to the cpu which then can slow down the entire machine.