Black screen when starting No Man's Sky after update to Ubuntu 21.04

[CatKiller]

I mean, your initial probem was just your mouse speed, but

You mentioned a bug report to Steam but I tried but gave up:

the place to make a bug report about it would be here.

[MAFoElffen]

Sure... Go to https://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/?k=downloads and downlod the Ubuntu/Debain Package. After it downloads, open the file manager, navigate to the download directory... Right click on the file and open wth the software manager, which will then install it.

Then you have to run the tests from a terminal session in the form ot:

phoronix-test-suite run <test_name>

The 3 included tests that would test for Vulkan Ray Tracing are:

mafoelffen@ovirt-mgnt-01:~$ phoronix-test-suite list-available-tests | grep -i "vulkan"
pts/geexlab-rt              GeeXLab Vulkan Ray-Tracing Demo        Graphics  
pts/rtiv                         Ray Tracing In Vulkan                               Graphics  
pts/waifu2x-ncnn        Waifu2x-NCNN Vulkan                               Graphics

So an example command to run the first would be:

phoronix-test-suite run geexlab-rt

No. I mean to get back to basic config of 21.04... LOL "No Man's Land" from "No Man's Sky" = Freudian slip with this adventure...

[MAFoElffen]

I mean, your initial probem was just your mouse speed, but...

When I cam e into this he had a blank screen when he went to start up his game "No Man's Sky"...

[CatKiller]

When I cam e into this he had a blank screen when he went to start up his game "No Man's Sky"...

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread....6#post14048766

I am unable to run No Man's Sky game. The symptoms are very very slow mouse movement making the game unplayable.

OP had this issue and decided to upgrade their kernel. They were shown how to do so on 20.04, but decided to upgrade to 21.04 instead. AFAIK they've never had the game working on 21.04.

[MAFoElffen]

Oh... Okay...

[makem2]

I mean, your initial probem was just your mouse speed, but

the place to make a bug report about it would be here.

Thank you, in fact I did report to sfmbugs@valvesoftware.com but having read about smf, I think this is wrong.

I will use the page to which you point.

[makem2]

Sure... Go to https://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/?k=downloads and downlod the Ubuntu/Debain Package. After it downloads, open the file manager, navigate to the download directory... Right click on the file and open wth the software manager, which will then install it.

Then you have to run the tests from a terminal session in the form ot:

phoronix-test-suite run <test_name>

The 3 included tests that would test for Vulkan Ray Tracing are:

mafoelffen@ovirt-mgnt-01:~$ phoronix-test-suite list-available-tests | grep -i "vulkan"
pts/geexlab-rt              GeeXLab Vulkan Ray-Tracing Demo        Graphics  
pts/rtiv                         Ray Tracing In Vulkan                               Graphics  
pts/waifu2x-ncnn        Waifu2x-NCNN Vulkan                               Graphics

So an example command to run the first would be:

phoronix-test-suite run geexlab-rt

No. I mean to get back to basic config of 21.04... LOL "No Man's Land" from "No Man's Sky" = Freudian slip with this adventure...

GeeXLab Vulkan Ray-Tracing Demo 2021.2.18.0:
    pts/geexlab-rt-1.0.1 [Resolution: 1920 x 1080]
    Test 1 of 1
    Estimated Trial Run Count:    3                     
    Estimated Time To Completion: 2 Minutes [11:50 BST] 
        Started Run 1 @ 11:49:40
        The test run did not produce a result.
        Started Run 2 @ 11:49:45
        The test run did not produce a result.
        Started Run 3 @ 11:49:49
        The test run did not produce a result.

     CPU Temperature: 36.00 C   CPU Usage (Summary): 0.25  %  
        Memory Usage: 1828  MB   System Temperature: 27.8  C  
        System Uptime 17    M

Test pts/rtiv (part output below) just goes round in circles: "[PROBLEM] pts/rtiv-1.0.1 is not installed".

        Installing Test @ 11:56:59
            The installer exited with a non-zero exit status.
            ERROR: Missing Command: cmake
            LOG: ~/.phoronix-test-suite/installed-tests/pts/rtiv-1.0.1/install-failed.log


    [PROBLEM] pts/rtiv-1.0.1 is not installed. 
    Would you like to stop and install these tests now (Y/n): y
    Evaluating External Test Dependencies ..................................
    Evaluating System Dependencies .........................................

The following dependencies are needed and will be installed: 

- build-essential
- autoconf
- meson
- cmake
- cmake-data
- git-core
- xorg-dev
- mesa-utils
- vulkan-tools
- unzip
- apt-file

This process may take several minutes.
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
build-essential is already the newest version (12.8ubuntu3).
build-essential set to manually installed.
unzip is already the newest version (6.0-26ubuntu1).
unzip set to manually installed.
mesa-utils is already the newest version (8.4.0-1build1).
mesa-utils set to manually installed.
vulkan-tools is already the newest version (1.2.162.0+dfsg1-1).
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
 libdrm-dev : Depends: libdrm2 (= 2.4.105-3~21.04.1) but 2.4.107+git2107170500.87a68f~oibaf~f is to be installed
              Depends: libdrm-intel1 (= 2.4.105-3~21.04.1) but 2.4.107+git2107170500.87a68f~oibaf~f is to be installed
              Depends: libdrm-radeon1 (= 2.4.105-3~21.04.1) but 2.4.107+git2107170500.87a68f~oibaf~f is to be installed
              Depends: libdrm-nouveau2 (= 2.4.105-3~21.04.1) but 2.4.107+git2107170500.87a68f~oibaf~f is to be installed
              Depends: libdrm-amdgpu1 (= 2.4.105-3~21.04.1) but 2.4.107+git2107170500.87a68f~oibaf~f is to be installed

There are dependencies still missing from the system:
- C/C++ Compiler Toolchain
- CMake
- Git
- Meson Build System
- X.Org Development

1: Ignore missing dependencies and proceed with installation.
2: Skip installing the tests with missing dependencies.
3: Re-attempt to install the missing dependencies.
4: Quit the current Phoronix Test Suite process.
Missing dependencies action: 3

The following dependencies are needed and will be installed: 

- build-essential
- autoconf
- meson
- cmake
- cmake-data
- git-core
- xorg-dev

This process may take several minutes.
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
build-essential is already the newest version (12.8ubuntu3).
build-essential set to manually installed.
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
 libdrm-dev : Depends: libdrm2 (= 2.4.105-3~21.04.1) but 2.4.107+git2107170500.87a68f~oibaf~f is to be installed
              Depends: libdrm-intel1 (= 2.4.105-3~21.04.1) but 2.4.107+git2107170500.87a68f~oibaf~f is to be installed
              Depends: libdrm-radeon1 (= 2.4.105-3~21.04.1) but 2.4.107+git2107170500.87a68f~oibaf~f is to be installed
              Depends: libdrm-nouveau2 (= 2.4.105-3~21.04.1) but 2.4.107+git2107170500.87a68f~oibaf~f is to be installed
              Depends: libdrm-amdgpu1 (= 2.4.105-3~21.04.1) but 2.4.107+git2107170500.87a68f~oibaf~f is to be installed
    To Install:    pts/rtiv-1.0.1

    Determining File Requirements ..........................................
    Searching Download Caches ..............................................

    1 Test To Install
        3500MB Of Disk Space Is Needed
        4 Seconds Estimated Install Time

    pts/rtiv-1.0.1:
        Test Installation 1 of 1
        2 Files Needed [218 MB / 1 Minute]
        File Found: RayTracingInVulkan-r6.tar.gz                   [19.26MB]
        File Found: vulkansdk-linux-x86_64-1.2.162.1.tar.gz          [199MB]
        Approximate Install Size: 3500 MB
        Estimated Install Time: 4 Seconds
        Installing Test @ 11:57:17
            The installer exited with a non-zero exit status.
            ERROR: Missing Command: cmake
            LOG: ~/.phoronix-test-suite/installed-tests/pts/rtiv-1.0.1/install-failed.log


    [PROBLEM] pts/rtiv-1.0.1 is not installed. 
    Would you like to stop and install these tests now (Y/n):

phoronix-test-suite run pts/waifu2x-ncnn

    [PROBLEM] pts/waifu2x-ncnn-1.0.0 is not installed. 
    Would you like to stop and install these tests now (Y/n):

I think it is time to stop.

I will keep 21.04, see what happens when I do get some dedicated GPU and take it from there. However I am sorely tempted to go back to 20.04 and start afresh, knowing how to upgrade the kernel.

Thank you for all your help, it has been very enlightening but it seems I am flogging a dead horse at the moment.

Thank you too @CatKiller, yes, I did make a wrong decision through lack of knowledge, but I have learned.

[makem2]

Well the horse is dead. I decided to revert to a fresh install of 20.04 as I had a separate /home and backups of everything anyway.

However (there is always a 'however' I find), the install was using kernel 5.8.0.63.71 so I decided to install 5.13.4 being one below the latest. It installed with errors and left me with 5.8.0.63.71. Fine, maybe it was too big a jump?

So I tried 5.11.0 and this worked fine and is where I currently am.

I then went for 5.13.4 again and this also failed leaving me at 5.11.0

5.8.0 to 5.11.0 is 3 jumps and it worked. 5.11.0 to 5.13.4 is two jumps and it did not.

I tried a smaller jump, 5.11.0 to 5.12.10 but again this failed with the same error:

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-headers-5.12.10-051210-generic: linux-headers-5.12.10-051210-generic depends on libc6 (>= 2.33); however Version of lib6:amd64 on system is 2.31-0ubuntu9.2

So, it is time to ask for help once again and risk admonishment. But I am a trier and hate being beaten especially when it could have been avoided maybe if I had updated the kernel before 21.04. I take the risk

I am unable to find how to correct this by updating libc6.

[CatKiller]

Thank you too @CatKiller, yes, I did make a wrong decision through lack of knowledge, but I have learned.

That's how we all learn; no biggie.

[CatKiller]

I am unable to find how to correct this by updating libc6.

Oh, I did hear something about this. libc is so fundamental to a system that you don't want to be messing with it. Having newer kernels that can't be built on the latest LTS is at least against the spirit of policy. I don't know for sure that they'll fix it, but I hope they do. Until they do you can use the latest before that change, and it will definitely be sorted out when the 21.10 kernel is working its way through the HWE channel.