Open TraceyC77 opened 9 months ago
Duplicate of #1107
Sorry, the symptoms are not exactly the same, reopening
I've just installed GNOME 4.5 ISO in VirtualBox and I get to the desktop after logging in. I wonder what the difference is. I'm not sure how to do it in KVM but in VirtualBox I always enable 3D Acceleration on the GPU and give it the max (128MB IIRC) of Video Memory, this might be the difference.
I can (sadly) reproduce this in virt-manager. I hit it on the third try. Asking the virt-manager gui to switch to a different tty and then back to the original tty appears to fix it for me.
I wonder if we should be documenting this as a known issue in the release notes?
Summary
When booting GNOME in a test VM (EFI), it shows a black screen with an X cursor after login
Steps to reproduce
Expected result
The GNOME desktop displays
Actual result
Black screen with X cursor
Environment
Repo
Shannon (stable)
Desktop Environment
GNOME
System details
Kernel: 6.6.15-272.current arch: x86_64 X11 with Xwayland
Other comments
I'm pretty sure the VM worked normally right after installing GNOME. Today was the first time I noticed it getting the black screen after login via the GUI
Fun fact: After gathering information from the tty, I switched back to the graphical desktop session (Ctrl+Alt+F3). I was presented with the lock screen. After logging into that, I was able to access the graphical GNOME session.
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to launch the default Gnome terminal or tilix terminal, both produced a spinny cursor and then nothing happened. I was able to launch other applications (Firefox, Libre Calc, Rhymthbox etc). Except gedit. I was able to launch konsole. I can launch tilix from konsole (not from the Gnome shell) I cannot launch gnome-terminal from konsole
Attached are screenshots of the journalctl messages from this boot, from just before I switched to a tty