I also have trouble starting GNOME. After the upgrade, boot hangs on the message “Failed to start GNOME Display Manager”.
First thing I tried was downgrading the nvidia driver, as I saw that many people seem to have issues with the new version:
mhwd --remove pci video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime
mhwd --install pci video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-470xx-prime
However, I still get the same error message on reboot.
But, when I then log into root shell and start gdm manually using…
systemctl restart gdm
… it works just fine. However, on the next reboot, I get the same error message, and I have to log into root console and start manually again. Does anyone have an idea what could be going on here and / or how I could go on to fix it?
Here’s some info that may help:
GDM seems to crash with a segfault:
[ 10.171780] gdm[929]: segfault at 0 ip 000055fdbcde494c sp 00007ffe3fe12370 error 4 in gdm[55fdbcdd2000+2f000]
/var/log/gdm is empty
In case my graphics hardware matters:
# inxi -G
Graphics: Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 630 driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile] driver: nvidia v: 470.86
Device-3: Acer BisonCam NB Pro type: USB driver: uvcvideo
Display: server: X.org 1.21.1.1 driver: loaded: modesetting,nvidia
resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo>
OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 470.86
And here’s what’s installed:
# uname -a
Linux Rechner 5.10.79-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Nov 12 20:26:09 UTC 2021 x86_64 GNU/Linux
# mhwd -li
> Installed PCI configs:
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NAME VERSION FREEDRIVER TYPE
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video-modesetting 2020.01.13 true PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-470xx-prime 2021.11.04 false PCI