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Updating my laptop (Budgie), there were no indications of a problem, but after rebooting, I could no longer use my GUI. The computer starts normally, displaying the logon screen, then the monitor clears, and as it normally does, starts by displaying an empty bottom panel. But before anything populates the panel, the screen goes totally black and stays that way.

I can start a tty, and a check of the installation showed that nfs-utils was broken, so I fixed that by fetching that one file with eopkg it nfs-utils --reinstall and rebooted, but that made no apparent difference. I'm going to try doing a restore (for the first time) using restic, but I'll wait a while to find out if anyone else has a better solution. I'm sure that most of the upgrades were fine, and there may be a more targeted way to solve this.

I've also run eopkg rdb, followed by another update, but no packages had been changed, so nothing was updated. A call to uname -r shows 5.6.18-155.current.

My MATE computer that runs the TV installed far fewer updates, and it had no issues at all. Holding off on updating the rest of our Budgie computers for now.

    WetGeek Same happened to me just now. Update went normal. After reboot I could login but after briefly showing the desktop it goes blank. There seems to be something wrong with that last update.

      DataDrake Intel?

      Yes, for the CPU (i7) and integrated graphics. GPU is NVIDIA GK106GLM (Quadro K2100M).

        DataDrake Can I see someone's dmesg from a failed boot please?

        Sorry, discuss wouldn't allow more than 64k. I'll see if I can attach the file another way.

        Heh, now I get "Uploading of this type is not allowed" while trying to upload dmesg.txt.

        Any other ideas?

            Staudey Save it on hastebin

            Done. But I've never used hastebin before, and the only link I can see is just hastebin.com. Is there some other way to identify what I just pasted to there?

                Another suggestion for testing if it is Intel SRBDS mitigation related, boot your system then spam the spacebar until you see the kernels listed. Press e and you'll see a input at the bottom of your screen. Type srbds=off then press Enter.

                  JoshStrobl you'll see a input at the bottom of your screen

                  Done. Not sure what you meant by "input at the bottom" but what I saw there was initrd. I didn't know whether I should enter srbds=off before or after that content, so I tried it both ways.

                  Neither attempt apparently did anything. Reboot and login the same as before, then the bottom panel displayed and the screen went blank.

                    DataDrake Please remove virtualbox-guest-common. You don't need it

                    YES! Rebooted and logged in normally. A long time ago, I tried to run a Win10VM on that machine, but not since.

                    EDIT: I'll make sure that it isn't on any of the other Budgie computers here, before attempting the updates.