I have been using SUSE Leap 15.1 for some time. All of a sudden, when I log in, I see my desktop background with no taskbar or icons for a few seconds, then the screen goes black. I have a cursor that responds to the mouse, but that is all. This happens both on bootup and screen unlock.
What is causing this and how do I get back to normal?
With no information about your hardware or the DE you use it’s very hard to make a useful guess. What you could try is logging in on a vtty (e.g. Ctrl-Alt-F2) and, assuming it works, deleting the entire content of .cache/ in your homedir before trying again to login normally. If it doesn’t help, but you can login, you can capture some information to paste here or upload that we can use to diagnose and make suggestions. Output from
inxi -bxx
you can redirect to a file and then paste the file content here. You may need to install inxi first
sudo zypper in inxi
or get the latest inxi version directly from its author. The susepaste command can be used for larger data collection, such as /var/log/Xorg.0.log if it exists, or ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log if it exists…
I get this on Kernel updates and nVidia G05 drivers. (Didn’t happen on the G03 drivers).
If you are using these try CTRL-ALT-F1 then login as root.
- Fire up YAST -> Software Management
- Search for nVidia
- Reinstall nVidia entries.
- Once done reboot and see what happens.