Hi y'all.

My installation is broken since the last round of updates which I installed on Saturday.
I ran eopkg up and after rebooting, the Gnome session freezes right after login.

The top panel with the status indicators etc. shows up but is unresponsive, keyboard entries are ignored and mouse actions as well. Also, the wallpaper isn't displayed but stays dark grey instead.

I haven't changed anything except for running eopkg up. The OS is a vanilla installation that I'm only using for building the 3rd party packages of the JetBrains IDEs. So, there's just the default set of applications, my GPG and SSH configs, the build tools, VS Code as my editor and Firefox as my browser.

The OS is running on my old gaming pc, which uses an old Nvidia GTX 970.

I can login via TTY and pull a journalctl log, but I need to know with which command (filtering, etc).

Help is highly appreciated, I'd like to get the machine up and running again before the end of the week without a reinstall, so I can update our 3rd party repo with the newest versions of the JetBrains IDEs before christmas.

  • Do you have the proprietary NVIDIA driver packages installed? From your descriptions it sounds like you don't, but just to make sure.

ahahn94 changed the title to Gnome freezes immediately after login .

Do you have the proprietary NVIDIA driver packages installed? From your descriptions it sounds like you don't, but just to make sure.

    Staudey I thought that I had, because I was able to run a bigger than 1080p resolution.

    After some fiddling around, I was able to boot into Solus using nomodeset. I used DoFlicky to install the correct nvidia driver (incl. 32 bit) and now everything is up and running again. Thank you 😃

    I had tried to install the nvidia driver via eopkg from the TTY, but that only broke my boot config, so that's why I had to try with nomodeset in the first place.
    Lessons learned: there's a history option in eopkg that can roll back package installations, and nomodeset is your friend if you're working on a machine with nvidia GPU.

      ahahn94 Thank you 😃

      Well, I didn't really do anything, but you're welcome 😄

      Happy to hear that your issue is fixed!