Not booting after general package update

[Yochanan]

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@lellopisello

i7 11th gen, 3070

It has nothing to do with the Desktop Environment you chose. You most likely need to add ibt=off to your kernel parameters.

Kernel 6.0 on Alder Lake 12th generation

I have the same CPU with an RTX 3060. Do not use 5.15, it is missing many fixes and improvements for Alder Lake CPUs. 5.19 is EOL. Adding ibt=off to your kernel parameters is required for >=5.18: nvidia may not boot on Linux 5.18 (or later) on systems with Intel CPUs due to FS#74886/FS#74891. Until this is fixed, a workaround is disabling the Indirect Branch Tracking CPU security feature by setting the ibt=off kernel parameter from the bootloader. This security feature is responsible for mi…