I seem to have the exact same issue as another user but I can’t post the link. the thread was closed after he made his comment.
after login it’s just an empty grey screen and I can move my mouse but not click on any of the elements at the top. if I try to open tty the screen just freezes but I can ctrl+alt+f1 and my mouse will start moving again. I have tried typing commands while the screen is frozen in case it’s just hidden but nothing seems to make anything happen
update: I can get into a tty by using ctrl+alt+f2 and waiting for my screen to go to sleep. when it wakes up I’m in the terminal
update 2: sudo systemctl restart gdm lets me login and everything works fine. but I still don’t know what the problem is
to give us more information so we can see what’s really going on.
inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width would be the minimum required information for us to be able to help you. (Personally Identifiable Information like serial numbers and MAC addresses will be filtered out by the above command)Same issue as above. I hadn’t figured the ctrl+alt+f1 trick yet. But I had figured out the grey screen is actually active, and if I hit enter, my password, then enter again, GDM would log me in.
Then the damnedest thing happens. Gnome loads but with no top panel. But if I hit Meta/Win, I can see my dash. The fix I found was hitting my hardware button to sleep/unsleep… then the full UI loads.
It’s not an old install, maybe 6 months. But I’m a bad user who didn’t update for like 2 months, and this happened after that update.
Here’s the output of the requested command:
Kernel: 5.15.53-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.15-x86_64
root=UUID=f4059786-27f2-4c49-a098-babc7ad9e06a rw quiet splash apparmor=1
security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: GNOME v: 42.3.1 tk: GTK v: 3.24.34 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM
v: 42.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: MAG Z690 TOMAHAWK WIFI DDR4 (MS-7D32)
v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: 1.10
date: 12/17/2021
Battery:
Message: No system battery data found. Is one present?
Memory:
RAM: total: 31.21 GiB used: 2.12 GiB (6.8%)
RAM Report:
permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: model: 12th Gen Intel Core i7-12700KF bits: 64 type: MST AMCP
arch: Alder Lake gen: core 12 built: 2021 process: Intel 7 (10nm ESF)
family: 6 model-id: 0x97 (151) stepping: 2 microcode: 0x1F
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 12 mt: 8 tpc: 2 st: 4 threads: 20 smt: enabled
cache: L1: 1024 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB, 8x48 KiB; i-8x32 KiB, 4x64 KiB
L2: 12 MiB desc: 8x1.2 MiB, 1x2 MiB L3: 25 MiB desc: 1x25 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 647 high: 800 min/max: 800/6500:5000:6300:3900 scaling:
driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 600 2: 600 3: 601 4: 661
5: 680 6: 600 7: 600 8: 600 9: 600 10: 600 11: 600 12: 600 13: 601 14: 601
15: 600 16: 600 17: 800 18: 800 19: 800 20: 800 bogomips: 144440
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat
arch_capabilities arch_lbr arch_perfmon art avx avx2 avx_vnni bmi1 bmi2 bts
cat_l2 cdp_l2 clflush clflushopt clwb cmov constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault
cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts ept ept_ad erms est f16c flexpriority
flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fsrm fxsr gfni ht hwp hwp_act_window hwp_epp
hwp_notify hwp_pkg_req ibpb ibrs ibrs_enhanced ida intel_pt invpcid
invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe movdir64b
movdiri msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx ospke pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm
pdpe1gb pebs pge pku pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pts rdpid rdrand rdseed
rdt_a rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep serialize sha_ni smap smep
split_lock_detect ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm
tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer tsc_known_freq umip vaes
vme vmx vnmi vpclmulqdq vpid waitpkg x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt
xsaves xtopology xtpr
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 status: Vulnerable: eIBRS with unprivileged eBPF
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GA104 [GeForce RTX 3070 Ti] vendor: eVga.com.
driver: nvidia v: 515.57 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 515.xx+
status: current (as of 2022-06) arch: Ampere process: TSMC n7 (7nm)
built: 2020-22 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4
speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2482 class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.org v: 1.21.1.3 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.2
compositor: gnome-shell driver: X: loaded: nvidia gpu: nvidia display-ID: :1
screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x1080 s-size: <missing: xdpyinfo>
Monitor-1: DP-2 pos: right res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 82
size: 598x336mm (23.54x13.23") diag: 686mm (27.01") modes: N/A
Monitor-2: HDMI-0 pos: primary,left res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 82
size: 598x336mm (23.54x13.23") diag: 686mm (27.01") modes: N/A
Message: Unable to show GL data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-S HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 1-5:3 v: kernel chip-ID: 0db0:b202
alternate: snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl class-ID: 0300 bus-ID: 00:1f.3
chip-ID: 8086:7ad0 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA GA104 High Definition Audio vendor: eVga.com.
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16
link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228b
class-ID: 0403
Device-3: Micro Star USB Audio type: USB
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.53-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.21 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.54 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-S PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:7af0 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
Device-2: Intel Ethernet I225-V vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: igc
v: kernel pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: N/A bus-ID: 06:00.0
chip-ID: 8086:15f3 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp6s0 state: down mac: <filter>
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
bus-ID: 1-14:8 chip-ID: 8087:0026 class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 2.29 TiB used: 1.21 TiB (52.8%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Mushkin model: MKNSSDPE1TB-D8
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 42AAT7GD temp: 32.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 maj-min: 259:5 vendor: Western Digital
model: WDS512G1X0C-00ENX0 size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
rev: B35500WD temp: 44.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate
model: BarraCuda 120 SSD ZA1000CM10003 size: 931.51 GiB block-size:
physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter>
rev: E014
Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 58.59 GiB size: 57.37 GiB (97.92%) used: 29.08 GiB (50.7%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme1n1p2 maj-min: 259:7 label: N/A
uuid: f4059786-27f2-4c49-a098-babc7ad9e06a
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 300 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme1n1p1 maj-min: 259:6 label: N/A
uuid: 34F3-1E3A
ID-3: /home raw-size: 378.99 GiB size: 371.97 GiB (98.15%)
used: 346.16 GiB (93.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme1n1p4 maj-min: 259:9
label: N/A uuid: 2465a4a5-d5f6-4245-9d67-5da97b18003b
ID-4: /mnt/sanctuary raw-size: 931.51 GiB size: 915.82 GiB (98.31%)
used: 859.35 GiB (93.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0
label: Sanctuary uuid: a5e11ff0-3794-43f8-bab2-2aa62e2a17d1
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 39.06 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
priority: -2 dev: /dev/nvme1n1p3 maj-min: 259:8 label: N/A
uuid: 1374c303-df85-4714-a574-29ab3894b551
Unmounted:
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 size: 100 MiB fs: vfat label: N/A
uuid: 16D1-E442
ID-2: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 size: 16 MiB fs: <superuser required>
label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-3: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 size: 930.85 GiB fs: ntfs label: N/A
uuid: 8C7ED7357ED716B4
ID-4: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4 size: 561 MiB fs: ntfs label: N/A
uuid: 4630CDF230CDE8CF
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 16 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-2:2 info: Micro Star MYSTIC LIGHT type: HID
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
power: 500mA chip-ID: 1462:7d32 class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
Device-2: 1-5:3 info: Micro Star USB Audio type: Audio,HID
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid interfaces: 8 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 0db0:b202 class-ID: 0300
Device-3: 1-7:4 info: Elecom TrackBall Mouse M-XPT1MR Wireless
type: Keyboard,Mouse,HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 056e:0129 class-ID: 0300
serial: <filter>
Device-4: 1-8:5 info: Wooting WootingTwoHE type: Keyboard,HID
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 7 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
power: 400mA chip-ID: 31e3:1220 class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
Hub-2: 1-12:6 info: Genesys Logic Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
power: 100mA chip-ID: 05e3:0608 class-ID: 0900
Hub-3: 1-13:7 info: Genesys Logic Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
power: 100mA chip-ID: 05e3:0608 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-14:8 info: Intel AX201 Bluetooth type: Bluetooth driver: btusb
interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 8087:0026
class-ID: e001
Hub-4: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 9 rev: 3.1 speed: 20 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 27.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 42 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 0%
Info:
Processes: 547 Uptime: 5m wakeups: 3 Init: systemd v: 251 default: graphical
tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.1.0 Packages: 1499 pacman: 1490 lib: 438
flatpak: 9 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.19
I encountered the same thing. I switched to using LightDM and my problems with GDM went away.
I’m not going to bother troubleshooting it anymore. I’ll return to GDM when Wayland is truly desktop ready. I give it another year or two.