Fedora borked, no GUI after login (Nvidia GTX 1050)
I've got Fedora 28 installed as the only OS on an HP laptop:
- i7 770HQ
- 16GB RAM
- 128GB SSD
- 1TB HDD
- Nvidia GTX 1050
I installed Bumblebee according to the fedora tutorial (https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US...bee/index.html) and everything was doing fine (about 4 months now)...until now. I was behind on updates a bit, about 98 updates listed in DNF. I rebooted, and after entering my password at the login GUI, I saw only a black screen and my mouse pointer, which was responsive. I opened a tty (CTRL + ALT + F2) and logged in as my user and tried to execute startx but it told me something along the lines of "only console users can do this." I don't know what that means, so I logged out and back in as root and was able to do startx successfully. I saw there were nvidia, kernel, and cinnamon (my DE) updates, so I installed them with reboots between each, then everything else. This did not solve the problem (I tested after each reboot and after installing everything else), and I only get a black screen after logging in through the login GUI.
Is there a fix for it?
When I was installing Fedora 28, I put /home on a separate partition, so if the only fix is a reinstall, I should be able to keep everything in /home at least.
fedora nvidia cinnamon bumblebee optimus
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I've got Fedora 28 installed as the only OS on an HP laptop:
- i7 770HQ
- 16GB RAM
- 128GB SSD
- 1TB HDD
- Nvidia GTX 1050
I installed Bumblebee according to the fedora tutorial (https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US...bee/index.html) and everything was doing fine (about 4 months now)...until now. I was behind on updates a bit, about 98 updates listed in DNF. I rebooted, and after entering my password at the login GUI, I saw only a black screen and my mouse pointer, which was responsive. I opened a tty (CTRL + ALT + F2) and logged in as my user and tried to execute startx but it told me something along the lines of "only console users can do this." I don't know what that means, so I logged out and back in as root and was able to do startx successfully. I saw there were nvidia, kernel, and cinnamon (my DE) updates, so I installed them with reboots between each, then everything else. This did not solve the problem (I tested after each reboot and after installing everything else), and I only get a black screen after logging in through the login GUI.
Is there a fix for it?
When I was installing Fedora 28, I put /home on a separate partition, so if the only fix is a reinstall, I should be able to keep everything in /home at least.
fedora nvidia cinnamon bumblebee optimus
edited 6 hours ago
Rui F Ribeiro
39.5k1479133
asked 7 hours ago
UngeheuerUngeheuer
1386
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How is there already a downvote? And why?
– Ungeheuer
7 hours ago
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I've got Fedora 28 installed as the only OS on an HP laptop:
- i7 770HQ
- 16GB RAM
- 128GB SSD
- 1TB HDD
- Nvidia GTX 1050
I installed Bumblebee according to the fedora tutorial (https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US...bee/index.html) and everything was doing fine (about 4 months now)...until now. I was behind on updates a bit, about 98 updates listed in DNF. I rebooted, and after entering my password at the login GUI, I saw only a black screen and my mouse pointer, which was responsive. I opened a tty (CTRL + ALT + F2) and logged in as my user and tried to execute startx but it told me something along the lines of "only console users can do this." I don't know what that means, so I logged out and back in as root and was able to do startx successfully. I saw there were nvidia, kernel, and cinnamon (my DE) updates, so I installed them with reboots between each, then everything else. This did not solve the problem (I tested after each reboot and after installing everything else), and I only get a black screen after logging in through the login GUI.
Is there a fix for it?
When I was installing Fedora 28, I put /home on a separate partition, so if the only fix is a reinstall, I should be able to keep everything in /home at least.
fedora nvidia cinnamon bumblebee optimus
edited 6 hours ago
Rui F Ribeiro
39.5k1479133
asked 7 hours ago
UngeheuerUngeheuer
1386
I've got Fedora 28 installed as the only OS on an HP laptop:
- i7 770HQ
- 16GB RAM
- 128GB SSD
- 1TB HDD
- Nvidia GTX 1050
I installed Bumblebee according to the fedora tutorial (https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US...bee/index.html) and everything was doing fine (about 4 months now)...until now. I was behind on updates a bit, about 98 updates listed in DNF. I rebooted, and after entering my password at the login GUI, I saw only a black screen and my mouse pointer, which was responsive. I opened a tty (CTRL + ALT + F2) and logged in as my user and tried to execute startx but it told me something along the lines of "only console users can do this." I don't know what that means, so I logged out and back in as root and was able to do startx successfully. I saw there were nvidia, kernel, and cinnamon (my DE) updates, so I installed them with reboots between each, then everything else. This did not solve the problem (I tested after each reboot and after installing everything else), and I only get a black screen after logging in through the login GUI.
Is there a fix for it?
When I was installing Fedora 28, I put /home on a separate partition, so if the only fix is a reinstall, I should be able to keep everything in /home at least.
fedora nvidia cinnamon bumblebee optimus
fedora nvidia cinnamon bumblebee optimus
edited 6 hours ago
Rui F Ribeiro
39.5k1479133
asked 7 hours ago
UngeheuerUngeheuer
1386
edited 6 hours ago
Rui F Ribeiro
39.5k1479133
asked 7 hours ago
UngeheuerUngeheuer
1386
edited 6 hours ago
Rui F Ribeiro
39.5k1479133
edited 6 hours ago
Rui F Ribeiro
39.5k1479133
edited 6 hours ago
Rui F Ribeiro
39.5k1479133
39.5k1479133
asked 7 hours ago
UngeheuerUngeheuer
1386
asked 7 hours ago
UngeheuerUngeheuer
1386
asked 7 hours ago
UngeheuerUngeheuer
1386
1386
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How is there already a downvote? And why?
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