X server not starting anymore

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After I upgraded my tumbleweed yesterday (Mar 3, kernel 6.2.1), the graphical login prompt never appears, only console login is possible. Last known working version was about 1 week ago (Feb 27, kernel 6.1.2).

sddm log output:

Mar 04 08:42:24 soot sddm[3770]: Initializing…
Mar 04 08:42:24 soot sddm[3770]: Starting…
Mar 04 08:42:24 soot sddm[3770]: Logind interface found

Then it hangs. There is no attempt to start the Xorg server. During previous boots, sddm would continue to log

Feb 27 16:39:01 soot sddm[3933]: Adding new display on vt 7 …
Feb 27 16:39:01 soot sddm[3933]: Loading theme configuration from “”
Feb 27 16:39:01 soot sddm[3933]: Display server starting…
Feb 27 16:39:01 soot sddm[3933]: Running: /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp -auth /run/s>

Any idea what could be causing sddm to hang at this point?

(While at first glance this sounds similar to Display not found/no graphical mode at startup since kernel 6.1.7 in Tumbleweed - #2 by arvidjaar in my case the X server isn’t even trying to start.)

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Do you have secure boot enabled? If so, please see this thread (near the bottom)

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Thanks. That was not it, but it got me looking in the right direction.

The problem was that the legacy nvidia driver I’m using is apparently not source- compatible with kernel 6.2. So it failed to build after the kernel upgrade, which I failed to notice. Got it working with some hacking, but I hope nvidia will update their driver soon.