brent I already updated my system before installing the nvidia drivers, and I did eopkg clean, returning only one issue - a missing image from one font package.

      Staudey Linux solus 5.15.43-215.current #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun May 29 09:34:51 UTC 2022 x86_64 GNU/Linux

      I am using no non-standard kernel parameters, and the first thing I did after the reinstall was a full system update (after of course connecting to wifi).

        brent I understand, I did do check, I mistyped it into the message I sent and I realised when I had sent the second message. I am unable to edit any messages except for the last one.

            DragonEggBedrockBreaking gotcha. pretty good mini-tutorial about troubleshooting with systemctlcommands (https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-list-linux-services-systemctl-easier-troubleshooting/) on the chance a service is disabled that should be enabled. It happens. At least you'd see the status of your display manager which would be my next guess. and if you did discover something off, maybe reset the panel.
            I'm at the bottom of my brain.
            Occams would say its an nvidia problem but I wish I knew more.

                brent I’ve reinstalled my system yet again, and it is working and functional now. I haven’t yet installed nvidia drivers, so I am running from my integrated GPU, and it’s running okay. ig my games will run a little worse, until I figure out how to fix this issue! Thanks for the help 🙂

                  5 days later

                  Are you using SDDM (for Plasma), GDM (for Gnome and Budgie), or LightDM (MATE) as your login manager? If you're not sure then you are probably using the default SDDM for Plasma, the default GDM for Gnome/Budgie, or the default LightDM for MATE.

                  From the flashing cursor hit CTRL + ALT + F3 to get to a different TTY, login, and then type in the relevant command to restart the login manager:
                  SDDM:

                  sudo systemctl restart sddm

                  GDM:

                  sudo systemctl restart gdm

                  LightDM:

                  sudo systemctl restart lightdm

                  If this brings up the login manager and you are able to login please comment back, I may have some dev packages for you to test that may resolve the issue and cause the login manager to not fail on startup (and have to be restarted).

                    ReillyBrogan Since I posted this issue, every week I’ve been trying to solve this by just installing Nvidia drivers (hoping they’ve been fixed), ending up with an unrecoverable system, then needing to reinstall my OS afterwards (I always back up my data on an external drive beforehand of course). Yesterday I hadn’t seen your comment and I again, like every weekend, installed Nvidia drivers and ended up with a broken system. I couldn’t be bothered to re-install it yesterday, so I postponed until today.

                    I decided today to look at the forums and noticed your comment. When I re-installed before with Nvidia drivers, I used to install the OS, reboot, update the system, then install Nvidia drivers. When I install the Nvidia drivers on the weekend, I always do a full system update before. Today, however, when I was re-installing my system, I forgot to update and immediately downloaded Nvidia drivers. My system then booted perfectly fine. I then did a system update, rebooted, and my system works fine.

                    I am unable to test your recommendation (I know that I am using lightdm on Budgie btw), since my system works fine now with Nvidia drivers. It seems all that I needed to do was to install the drivers before updating. If my system breaks later on, I’ll let you know.

                        It seems I was very wrong. I now remember why I used to install Nvidia drivers after an update. Nvidia drivers are not properly installed the way I did it, and they need to be installed again. I only just realised this, and once I noticed and remembered this, I installed Nvidia drivers. They do not work. I also, as usual, am unable to go into a tty with the keyboard.

                        However, when I go into clr boot manager at boot, I am able to switch kernels. When I switch from kernel 5.15 to 5.13, I am able to get into a tty. Restarting lightdm doesn’t fix the issue, however this at least allows me to recover my system by uninstalling Nvidia drivers and then restarting lightdm.

                        9 days later

                        DragonEggBedrockBreaking This may be fixed by a systemd update actually. Can you run the following in a bash shell in order to install some test packages?

                        installed=($(eopkg li | grep systemd | awk '{print  $1 "|"}'))
to_install="sudo eopkg it "
for i in "systemd" "systemd-32bit" "systemd-32bit-dbginfo" "systemd-32bit-devel" "systemd-dbginfo" "systemd-devel" ; do
  if [[ " ${installed[*]} " =~ " ${i}| " ]]; then
    to_install="$to_install https://solus.reillybrogan.com:8443/systemd-250/$i-250.7-105-1-x86_64.eopkg"
  fi
done
eval $to_install

                            ReillyBrogan I am not able to using keyboard shortcuts. I can access a command line by appending init=/bin/bash to the clr boot manager arguments, then from there I can uninstall nvidia drivers. Systemctl restart lightdm fails.

                              @DragonEggBedrockBreaking I prepared some patched packages that may help. Can you please fully update your system, and then before rebooting run the following?

                              to_install="sudo eopkg it "
installed=($(eopkg li | grep linux-current | awk '{print  $1 "|"}'))
for i in "linux-current" "linux-current-headers" "linux-current-dbginfo"  ; do
  if [[ " ${installed[*]} " =~ " ${i}| " ]]; then
    to_install="$to_install https://solus.reillybrogan.com:8443/kernel-5.15.50-patched/$i-5.15.50-217-1-x86_64.eopkg"
  fi
done
installed=($(eopkg li | grep nvidia-glx-driver | awk '{print  $1 "|"}'))
for i in "nvidia-glx-driver-32bit" "nvidia-glx-driver-common" "nvidia-glx-driver-current" "nvidia-glx-driver-modaliases" ; do
  if [[ " ${installed[*]} " =~ " ${i}| " ]]; then
    to_install="$to_install https://solus.reillybrogan.com:8443/kernel-5.15.50-patched/$i-515.57-431-1-x86_64.eopkg"
  fi
done
eval $to_install

                              This will install my patched linux-current packages as well as replacement versions of the nvidia-glx-driver packages built against that kernel. I didn't rebuild any other kernel modules so if you have anything like virtualbox-current installed expect that to stop working. Note also that I didn't build a LTS package for the Nvidia driver, so if you use LTS that might be an issue too.

                              If that doesn't work I have another idea we can try.

                                After you "fix" the system by reverting it to previous packages can you retrieve the boot logs of the previous boot and upload them here? You should be able to access them with sudo journalctl -b1 --no-pager (the number after -b means how many boots ago where 0 is the current boot and 1 is the previous one. You may need to adjust till you find the right value which should have the correct kernel version listed in the first few lines).

                                  WetGeek Yes. I’ve reinstalled solus at least a dozen times since making this post. I’ve also had to reinstall other distributions countless times, ranging from easier options like mint and fedora, to more time consuming options like arch and void.