Fedora 44 Plasma Desktop Blackscreen after Passphrase entry

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Hey guys,

I’m a total newb and this is my first time using Linux/Fedora. I installed Fedora 44 Plasma Desktop using the Fedora Media Writer. The installation and initial setup seemed fine. I set a passphrase and restarted the PC.

After rebooting, I entered the passphrase incorrectly a few times and got sent into the emergency/safe mode warning screen. I couldn’t type any commands there, so I had to restart the PC using the power button (yeah… I know, not ideal). This happened a couple of times (I know, I know pls dont judge…) before I finally entered the correct passphrase.

Now, after entering the correct passphrase, I don’t get a login screen. The screen stays completely black, but the mouse cursor is visible and movable.

My specs:

AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT 8-Core Processor
32 GB DDR4 RAM
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

I migrated from Windows 11 Pro.

Because of the mistakes I made during boot/passphrase entry, I wanted to reinstall Fedora, but right now I can’t even get to the desktop properly.

Any help would be appreciated!

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Boot as normal, let it get to a black screen, press Ctrl-Alt-F3 and you should get to a pseudo terminal where you can log in, and peruse the journalctl output for errors about amdgpu.

If this is not the case, then reboot and:

Get to Grub, press e, remove quiet and rhgb from the kernel parameter line and add nomodeset.

Press Ctrl-X or F10 to boot.

The machine SHOULD come up in a basic graphical mode with a pretty grim resolution.

Assuming this works, then you can have a look in the output from journalctl, and post relevant parts of it here for help. Searching for amdgpu will probably throw up whatever the root cause is.

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It’s exactly like you said. It booted afer removing quiet and rhgb and adding nomodeset.

After that, it showed a line like amdgpu 0000 :2d : 00.0 : probe with driver amdgpu failed with error -22 . It asked for the passphrase and I could then log in.

Mai 24 18:52:54 fedora kernel: amdgpu: Virtual CRAT table created for CPU
Mai 24 18:52:54 fedora kernel: amdgpu: Topology: Add CPU node
Mai 24 18:52:54 fedora kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: enabling device (0006 -> 0007)
Mai 24 18:52:54 fedora kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: initializing kernel modesetting (IP DISCOVERY 0x1>
Mai 24 18:52:54 fedora kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: register mmio base: 0xFCB00000
Mai 24 18:52:54 fedora kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: register mmio size: 524288
Mai 24 18:52:54 fedora kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: detected ip block number 0 <common_v1_0_0> (soc24>
Mai 24 18:52:54 fedora kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: detected ip block number 1 <gmc_v12_0_0> (gmc_v12>
Mai 24 18:52:54 fedora kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: detected ip block number 2 <ih_v7_0_0> (ih_v7_0)
Mai 24 18:52:54 fedora kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: detected ip block number 3 <psp_v14_0_0> (psp)
Mai 24 18:52:54 fedora kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: detected ip block number 4 <smu_v14_0_0> (smu)
Mai 24 18:52:54 fedora kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: detected ip block number 5 <dce_v1_0_0> (dm)
Mai 24 18:52:54 fedora kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: detected ip block number 6 <gfx_v12_0_0> (gfx_v12>
Mai 24 18:52:54 fedora kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: detected ip block number 7 <sdma_v7_0_0> (sdma_v7>
Mai 24 18:52:54 fedora kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: detected ip block number 8 <vcn_v5_0_0> (vcn_v5_0>
Mai 24 18:52:54 fedora kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: detected ip block number 9 <jpeg_v5_0_0> (jpeg_v5>
Mai 24 18:52:54 fedora kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: detected ip block number 10 <mes_v12_0_0> (mes_v1>
Mai 24 18:52:54 fedora kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: Fetched VBIOS from VFCT
Mai 24 18:52:54 fedora kernel: amdgpu: ATOM BIOS: 115-G295BP00-100
Mai 24 18:52:54 fedora kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: vgaarb: deactivate vga console
Mai 24 18:52:54 fedora kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: Trusted Memory Zone (TMZ) feature not supported
Mai 24 18:52:54 fedora kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: MEM ECC is not presented.
Mai 24 18:52:54 fedora kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: SRAM ECC is not presented.
Mai 24 18:52:54 fedora kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: vm size is 262144 GB, 4 levels, block size is 9-b>
Mai 24 18:52:54 fedora kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: VRAM: 16304M 0x0000008000000000 - 0x00000083FAFFF>
Mai 24 18:52:54 fedora kernel: amdgpu 0000:2d:00.0: amdgpu: GART: 512M 0x0000000000000000 - 0x000000001FFFFFFF
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I deinstalled and reinstalled the whole thing this time with Secure Boot disabled. Still same Problem. But this time the Cursor Sometimes gets big for a few seconds

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You an look here to see if you see a similar sounding bug that someone else reported:

I did a quick search for “probe with driver amdgpu failed with error -22” but didn’t find anything.

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I saw some odd errors when playing games with my AMD card and the fix was to remove and reseat the card.

Maybe worthy trying.

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Ty for your reply, I Just did that unfortunetly there is No Change

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Seems Like I’m Out of luck for now. But ty for your reply.

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I think i will Just switch back to windows.

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For info, the error code -22 is defined to be EINVAL - Invalid value.

Evidently, some parameter which is being passed to the amdgpu driver is incorrect or invalid.

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Ty for your time and the info. But I rly dont know what to do with it.
I think Linux Just isnt for me.