Fedora KDE Plasma Boot issue on Intel integrated graphics

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Software:

  • Fedora Linux 44 KDE Plasma Edition
  • In GRUB I had:
    Fedora Linux (6.19.10-300.fc44.x86_64) 44 (KDE Plasma Edition)
    Fedora Linux (0-rescue-…) (I don’t really remember)
    UEFI Firmware Settings

In the live environment, everything worked fine, as well as after the first boot. After the OS started, I downloaded programs (VSCode, Steam, Terraria etc.), updated something, and then rebooted. After the reboot, I was stuck on this screen:

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(The little spinny thing froze)

I tried ctrl+alt+f1, f2, f3 and f4, but none of them worked (maybe because enabled fn-lock in the bios), but ctrl+alt+delete worked, so I entered GRUB, where I selected the 1st option (normal Fedora KDE), which gave me a blank, black screen. Editing the GRUB kernel parameters got me into the text terminal, so I don’t think my problem was connected to the OS itself.

After a few tries, I installed a fresh Fedora image, but the same happened. Sometimes the hp/fedora screen sometimes the black screen.

Tthe system appeared to be using the default framebuffer instead of the Intel graphics driver as a graphical driver, so firstly I forced it to boot with the i915 driver, which didn’t work, so I tried forcing xe, which didn’t work either.

Then I thought that the update might caused the failures, so I got a new install, but didn’t update it. It also went to the hp/fedora screen after a reboot.

On neither the HP/Fedora screen nor on the black screen did the REISUB sequence worked. (I tried both holding down, and just pressing PrintScreen)

This is my first linux distro, (I used windows 11 before) so I mainly used ChatGPT to figure out what to do. I don’t know if that was a good ieda.

Hardware:

  • HP laptop from the Hungarian education system
    (HP Pro x360 Fortis)
  • Intel N100 CPU
  • Intel UHD integrated graphics
  • 4 GB RAM
  • 120 GB SSD

Because it is an edu. laptop, I can’t take it apart, nor change parts of it unfortunately.

If you have any idea why this is occurring, then please tell me, because my computer is essentially unusable in this state.

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The timeline is a little messy, this is what hapened:
live env. works → fresh install → first boot works → install/update things → reboot → failure → live env. still works → new fresh install → first boot still works → update → reboot → failure → fresh install → doesn’t update → reboot → faliure

3

try pressing ESC to see the boot up log messages.
What do you see?

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I tried, but it went so fast, that I couldn’t get anything

5

If you can get to the text screen try using sudo dmesg to get all the boot messages and peruse that long list to see what error may be listed.

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ChatGPT gave me these commands and it seems like it solved my problem.

sudo dnf upgrade --refresh
sudo dnf reinstall kernel-core kernel-modules linux-firmware
sudo reboot

I don’t know why though

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Do you have any akmods packages installed?