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Fresh newbie with a boot problem (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello,

Finally built a new rig, and wanted to ditch Windows.

Got KDE neon up and running, booted into it, got my browser mostly back to how I like it, ran an update for my video card. I didn't notice the screen blackout and come back like it normally would for a video update, but I don't think that has anything to do with my current issue. I tried to restart to make sure it was running, and the update part of discover showed up and said I had a couple hundred updates to get, no big surprise there, since it is a fresh install.

Then it hung on fetching updates, and while I could browse my list of programs, I couldn't do anything else. So I did a hard shut down and powered back up.

It sticks on some kennel warnings and won't go any further.

Obviously I can't really do anything from there that I know of.

I also can't even get it to boot with the install media. That just sticks on a black screen. I can tell the monitor is actually showing black, as it doesn't give the "NO SIGNAL" warning. I have no idea what to do from here since I can't get it to react to anything, much less know how to fix anything if I could get in.

As for what the warnings say, there are 6 or so lines saying the same thing: problem blacklisting hash (-13), and one more that says nvme2: failed to set APST feature (2)

I haven't put anything on nvme2 yet, I haven't even formatted it yet, just the primary drive (nvme0). So I'm not sure what could possibly be wrong with it yet.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always figured I'd have to try several to figure out what I wanted without knowing the difference between any of them.

Ubuntu was too obvious a choice, so I skipped it like I used to skip top 40 radio stations.

So I just kinda looked around at some less popular ones that still had guts of a popular choice. KDE sounds better than GNOME to me, and a friend of mine who took the plunge already is using Kubuntu and like it. So I landed here for my first rodeo. I've I dive in I figured I'd start absorbing more knowledge, since it's far easier to want to learn more once you have at least one familiar starting point and know some lingo, and once you're actively using it and have more of a personal stake in it. I got the installer prepped a couple weeks ago and only found out a few days ago that rolling release distros were a thing. I knew Ubuntu had a regular and LTS version from when I messed with a live CD version about 20 years ago, but didn't see that option with this one, so at the time I thought it only had a regular version.

Picked up the used GPU from him a few days ago and he mentioned rolling release then, which is how I learned they existed. Didn't realize this was one until you said that.

Given that new info, I'm more than open to trying fedora because of that.

But I hope that answers your question.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sorry if I confused you there it is ubuntu LTS in the base but the KDE desktop is rolling that's the only difference so semi-rolling would be the proper word.And I said fedora since it is updated more frequently than ubuntu LTS.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That makes more sense in how I looked at it in the first place. I prefer a more stable one, so it makes sense that I saw it because of being based on an LTS. I didn't realize the KDE part was updated more often. That's not terrible.

Unfortunately I think I'm gonna have to get a new board anyway, so it's gonna be moot for a while. One channel of RAM seems to be borked. There is a tiny amount of hair in one door and I don't think that's causing it, but I'm gonna go out next time I get a chance to get a can of compressed air, since mine was apparently gone.

But it's more likely a bent pin or bad board at this point. Very frustrating.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For the nvidia card it may be terrible. I have one it would always black screen after every update.KDE is pretty much halted for now since they are getting ready for plasma 6. There are not much resources for KDE neon compared to other main ones.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right. And based on your earlier comment when I get a working board I will probably just try fedora next.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you want a different desktop there are fedora spins just like ubuntu spins.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still like the idea of plasma, so that's my intention atm.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Fedora KDE is there as an option in fedora spins.