@EbonJaeger @ReillyBrogan

  • current kernel
  • Budgie edition
  • Intel HD 530, i915 driver
  • secure boot disabled

Can get to a different tty from the login screen, so here's my journalctl -rb dump pastebin from one of the failed Budgie session boots:

My budgie panel applets:

  • keyboard language indicator/switcher
  • keyboard lock keys indicator
  • budgie menu
  • icon task list
  • systray, network, volume (sorry, don’t remember if these are separate or not)
  • notifications
  • clock
  • raven trigger

Not sure if worth mentioning but I also just noticed that when my panel pops in before the desktop gets completely frozen by the memory leak/cpu load caused by budgie-panel, the icon task list applet has been the only applet that's consistently missing from the panel at that stage every single time so far.

Also what else I've tried to do to, unfortunately, no effect:

  • rolling the update back (eopkg throws a system error: Repo item libatk-32bit not found)
  • reinstalling budgie-desktop
  • reinstalling mesalib
  • booting in with a previous kernel

Thank you so much for looking into this!

I was asking about what steps in @EbonJaeger 's post fixed the gnome-mahjongg issue when I realized that it was in answer to a much earlier problem. So I tried to delete my post, but cannot find a way to do that. Is this a new flarum feature? Immutable posts?

    WetGeek

    Referring to this page of the help center, I mounted my system from a live usb of ZorinOs which I happened to have at hand, and chrooted my Solus system.

    Then I followed the first three steps under "Repairing Packages"

    1. sudo eopkg rebuild-db
    2. sudo eopkg up
    3. sudo eopkg check | grep Broken | awk '{print $4}' | xargs sudo eopkg it --reinstall If you see output that starts with "Usage", this means the system has no broken packages.

    Then I ran sudo eopkg it --reinstall systemd and rebooted.

    That seems to have done the trick.

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        inkbug

        Sorry to inform, my budgie vanila-no-longer-vanilla got corrupted again.
        The instructions in the quoted post didn't help me.

        It happens after some installations (not a single thing) but reverting step by step (or trying to) didn't work for me. also not the instructions above regarding reinstalling systemd.

        I tried what's in there, regarding rerolls, reinstall desktop, reinstall systemd to no avail.

        I did not try other stuff as being a newbie it was already difficult enough (and can't remember well so adhering to pages) and I did more and more errors. Personally I have some difficulties in this term especially so couldn't do much reliably.

        Took some screenshots of desktop view at various stages, and will try to edit out some details and post.
        Tried to copy some logs along with those screens (though I am ashamed of some errors) before I install something.

        can right click and go to system settings.
        TTY works. chroot and network works. reroll and reinstall possible, beside for the one listed as upgrade (#1 for me)
        can't revert the big upgrade (1st since vanilla install)
        libatk missing from repo.

        The details of my system and the nature of the error are on upper posts.
        P.S. at this point I can finally vote I have some errors which I could not solve by myself. Giving up for now.
        Another thing I recalled: screenshot shows X11 being used on the corrupt installation.
        Booting from another kernel on the corrupted system (current) did not change its state.

        What I didn't try: reinstalling mesalib, something regarding journal.
        There were no broken packages.

            inkbug Then I followed the first three steps under "Repairing Packages"

            Thanks for your reply. Indeed, these are steps to solve a booting problem. That's a much earlier issue than the mouse problem I had confirmed I was having with the gnome-mahjongg solitaire game. @EbonJaeger had written that he has fixed it in the unstable repository, so it's no longer an issue.

            That's why I wrote to tell you I was trying to respond to a message you wrote about an earlier problem somebody else had. I confused that reference with @Ebonjaeger's more recent message, which didn't contain any "steps" in it.

            But when I realized that you and I were referring to two different messages from @EbonJaeger, and tried to delete my post (so I wouldn't add to the confusion) I wasn't able to delete it. I'm not having a boot problem at all. Just a mouse problem in that specific game that's already been fixed in the unstable repository.

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              On a second thougt, if I feel fit for it later, I'll try "Users who are still experiencing issue with Budgie and are using Intel graphics, does sudo eopkg it mesalib --reinstall help at all?" suggestion (can't quote well) or will see if can bring details regarding journal which at this point I can't.

              The issue is I can't see the instructions from TTY so it will have to be by chrooting again so it's not "natural" for me.

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                EbonJaeger
                Regarding method of getting (existing) logs. I had a way. It's not a recommendation, it's for those who may install anyway unless one else who fits to recommend, recommends it.

                I think I could copy some logs while using a USB live with storage and also decided to take some logs to storage on the session while I was chrooting. Maybe such could be done from an OS on other disk as well, regardless of chrooting maybe too. Somehow. I don't know regarding permissions.
                But it was easier for me and maybe it is easier than remembering the command but I did that only as a last resort since I'm going to install something else on the system soon anyway.

                (my backup is OS agnostic as far as I know, so I am not afraid, though it takes some work and apps etc are not backed up in the way I chose, it can still bring back an OS like solus of any flavour/mint/mx, maybe zorin maybe even spiral etc, to function nicely in not so long time after an installation.)

                    Since the latest update Unicode input does not work anymore. I am using a keyboard that sends unicode with special characters and till last update it worked perfect for years. Also direct Unicode input by Ctrl+Shift+u prints u but after entering unicode hex and pressing enter no characer shows, all gets deleted. So I guess there is a problem in IBUS or IBUS configuration. IBUS daemon and related stuff are up and running as far as I could check. Could it be also a GTK problem? I don't know too much about the workings. Help would be appreciated.

                      Budgie users with panel issues/Uh Oh screen

                      I think we've been able to narrow down the issue to the keyboard layout applet and IBus. Still doing further investigating to find a fix.

                      Workaround

                      For now, you can work around this by resetting the panel settings back to defaults, thus removing the applet from the panel. Run this command from a TTY:
                      dconf reset -f /com/solus-project/budgie-panel/

                      See the post by Reilly below.

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                        EbonJaeger
                        I have my OS back (didn't try restart yet...)
                        Just installing element (and other software...) takes time so saying.

                        While I thought it didn't work, it did.
                        It took times, the command (or the other) from chroot took place after a while on login to desktop and solved it.

                        I don't know will exit from keyboard applet just in case.

                        P.S.
                        As EbonJaeger says, remove the language indicator from the panel itself on this stage 🙂
                        Worked (done that next restart) 🙂

                        It may take time/be a bit quirky (sound temp issue?), but it helped me and other one and I hope for others too! You said it's a workaround, so thank you very much, and good luck 🙂 I have sound working too, yes.

                          Thank you very much, EbonJaeger and rest of the team - the workaround is indeed working for me.

                          Just want to note that the dconf command didn't really reset my panel untill I added a trailing slash at the end of it ( .../budgie-panel/).

                          So if anyone's panel is still acting up after entering the command in tty the same way as mine did, feel free to try this one with the trailing slash at the end:

                          dconf reset -f /com/solus-project/budgie-panel/

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                              dassuan
                              forgot system data:

                              secure boot not enabled
                              budgie 10.7.2
                              Linux 6.3.12-244.current
                              processor: 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12650H × 16
                              grafics: Intel® Graphics (ADL GT2)
                              ram: 32,0 GiB
                              Keyboard layout: german

                                There was a micro-sync just now. gnome-mahjongg should be working now. I added a couple of ibus patches, hopefully that resolves the issues reported there.

                                  An Acer Swift with 4GB memory, working flawlessly on Solus Budgie for years, is now k.o. after the last upgrade.
                                  "Out of memory: Killed process 5180 (budgie-panel) total-vm:3929520kB, anon-rss:2865420kB, file-rss 0kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:1000 pgtables:5848kB oom_score_adj:0"
                                  Only a white screen is left with the hint (analogously): "Sorry, there's a problem. Log tf off and try again"

                                  Whenever I hear the word "OOM-killer" I get mad. It's driving me crazy on Sailfish, and it's bricking my laptop now. How can I debug this from CLI?

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                                    I did try some thing, and recommend the TTY (with the / as noted by RegularJoger. Thanks.) not the chroot solution
                                    If you can remember it or having it in the shortcut or written etc. No worries, it's fine again for me in that regard.

                                    The iBus update wasn't fixing the issue, but as I recovered the OS, the keyboard indicator and caps lock indicator were not in panel and also not in budgie, as I think should. So this time, using the solution with the added / on the TTY, I didn't need to remove those after unlike previous one (which was with 2 chroot commands, with waiting after login, and without the added / and before patch)