I’ve been troubleshooting a minor issue on my fresh Fedora 41 install. When logging in I am taken to the GNOME desktop, but one or more of my 3 monitors appears to be frozen. I say minor issue because I am able to work around it by locking with super+L, then re-entering my password. After that, everything works as normal.
I’ve seen several similar issues posted here, but most seem to be complete/unrecoverable lockups of GNOME, not the partial/temporary lockup I’m seeing.
I’ve tried several things with no luck:
Disable all extensions
Disable all startup applications
Disable Secure Boot
Any help is much appreciated. Please let me know if I can provide any additional info or troubleshooting steps.
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I believe the issue I’m having is slightly different, as one or two of my monitors usually look and behave totally normally. But I’m usually seeing one or two monitors totally frozen right after login, at least until I do super+L and re-authenticate.
I did take a page out of your post and try updating the BIOS (it was about 2 years behind), but sadly that did not resolve the issue. I did have fun resetting the CMOS and re-enrolling my Secure Boot keys though, since my machine wouldn’t boot after the update :D
I think I may have a lead: I’m noticing that this only seems to happen in the evening if I log on when Night Light is enabled (I have it scheduled from Sunset to Sunrise). I haven’t captured any logs that point directly to this, but still checking.
Feeling more confident that this is related to Night Light. I can semi-reliably trigger the lock-up by toggling in and out of Night Light, and this only seems to happen on sign-in after sunset (when Night Light automatically comes on). Thankfully, I can always work around it by locking the computer with super+L, waiting for all monitors to go black, then signing back in.
When the lock-up happens, I always see this in the journal:
Feb 09 18:56:58 lane-pc kernel: [drm:nv_drm_atomic_commit [nvidia_drm]] *ERROR* [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Flip event timeout on head 2
Feb 09 18:57:01 lane-pc kernel: [drm:nv_drm_atomic_commit [nvidia_drm]] *ERROR* [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Flip event timeout on head 2
Quick update here. This does not appear to be exclusively triggered by night light, as I’ve now had this happen multiple times when night light was turned off. In fact, the issues seems to have gotten worse after recent updates. The lock/unlock trick is becoming hit at miss as well. It was 100% reliable, but after recent updates I get near full system lock-ups on login. Num/capslock still seem responsive, but I cannot get the system to reboot gracefully or switch terminal using REISUB or ctrl+alt+f1-8.
Has anyone else encountered this issue? Any suggestions on what I might look into next?
On Ubuntu 24.10 (UEFI) GNOME 47 Xorg today I can recover from the frozen background easy with Win + L; consistent recovery, battery and AC, no headphones; had it happen about 6 times but I’m mostly ok with the fast recovery (I usually needed to hotplug headphones before the lockscreen shortcut would work)
I’m not sure if Ubuntu would let me do SD /boot NVMe root easy like Fedora, but I haven’t had it happen under Legacy boot.
(I usually needed to hotplug headphones before the lockscreen shortcut would work)