Black screen with latest update.

Archdevil

I did a re-install a month or so ago. Budgie. Nvidia 1050. I kept the graphics setting like they were. This week after some updates I ended up with a black screen, with a cursor and a few icons on the taskbar, that didn't do anything when pressed.
I did a re-install yesterday, and after some updates ended up with a black screen with just the cursor when I booted up this morning. Again: No tampering with settings.

What is going on and what can I do about it?
The re-install a month ago I had to do after Solus stopped working (other update?) and I am beginning to question the stability of Solus. Time for a new distro?

AlphaElwedritsch

Archdevil and I am beginning to question the stability of Solus.

There is no reason to question the stability of Solus if the majority of users do not notice any instability

Archdevil Time for a new distro?

Nobody can stop you.
It's always the same question: how quickly do you give up? How interested are you in finding the error? ....

Staudey

Archdevil Nvidia 1050. I kept the graphics setting like they were.

Does that mean you did or didn't install the proprietary NVIDIA drivers? If you did, what method did you use to do so?

I did a re-install yesterday, and after some updates

So did you install ALL updates, or just some?

Archdevil

I would like to see someone give advise here on this forum. But I don't have lots of time as I need my main computer to work... And my experience with the distro the last few months just hasn't been so great. I ran it a few years without issues, but lately I keep having problems.

Archdevil

Staudey I didn't install any nvidia drivers, as they gave me issues at first after installing the KDE version a month ago.

At this moment I have it running again.
I installed the nvidia driver from commandline:
sudo eopkg it nvidia-470-glx-driver-current

Still curious why it went black all over sudden.

brent

Archdevil Still curious why it went black all over sudden.

reboot reboot reboot especially toggling back and forth between nvidia and nouveau.

Staudey

Archdevil sudo eopkg it nvidia-470-glx-driver-current

That's not the correct driver for your card. I mean, it works, but it's way old and only there to support previous GPU generations (also it's already unsupported by NVIDIA and will be removed as soon as it no longer works correctly with new kernels). Not sure why you chose that one in particular. I recommended just using the "Hardware Drivers" utility to choose the correct one.

edit: Additionally I've recently also had an issue with the 470 driver not booting that I haven't figured out yet, so it's doubly troublesome.