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Help to troubleshoot...Freeze before desktop (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.world

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Hi guys! I have KDE Neon 6.2.3 running on my Surface Pro 7+, and up until now it's been running rather smoothly, for years. But today I seem to be unable to fully boot anymore on normal mode. Linux will get stuck on the KDE spinning gear, with the gear frozen. And it becomes unresponsive, to open alternative consoles with control+alt+Fx, or even control+alt+del. The only thing that works is a force shutdown by holding the power button.

I tried with a previous kernel, with the same results (current is linux-image-6.10.10-surface-1, I have a generic 6.8.0-49, but it also freezes). I can boot in safe mode. It opens a different login screen, and after a failed attempt of opening lxde, it fails back to my usual KDE session, in safe graphics mode.

What can I test? How can I see what failed at boot?

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[–] anamethatisnt@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Sweet, then you know what's going on and solved it!

You might wanna try out if your distro is compatible with cockpit:
https://cockpit-project.org/
https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit

It gives you a webUI that you can use to check out logs and services (among other things) and makes it a lot easier to troubleshoot computer troubles where the machine starts but your GUI doesn't.