Black screen with only cursor

[Peturrr]

Interesting, when I select a previous kernel, I boot normally into Gnome.... So is it some kernel issue or so? I am now reinstalling my Nvidia driver for this kernel (6.8.0-31) to see if it then also boots.

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Hmm, that fails immediately after boot, with the same black screen. So it might be a Nvidia Driver vs Gnome incompatibility or so. I'll make a bug report, since there is not much else I can figure out.

[Peturrr]

I added a bug report, following the instructions by @jbicha

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...l/+bug/2077530

Please add your own experience to that bugreport if you are also suffering from this.

[mdrda]

Yeah, same experience. When removing Nvidia drivers, all good. Tested with the latest new open drivers. nvidia-driver-560-open (560.28.03-0ubuntu0~gpu24.10.1) .
Same thing. Black screen with a mouse cursor. Doesn't look like a kernel or driver issue.

One interesting fact: if I connect to the running session via RDP client from a different machine (RDP server provided by Gnome desktop sharing) , I'm getting the same black screen. Looks like there is just a single flaw in there - Gnome is just not rendering things on the canvas Quite important flaw though

[mdrda]

Fixed after today's upgrade. All good.

[IanW]

Kubuntu has it now.

UPDATE - Fixed by removing the proprietary Nvidia drivers