Are you running a proprietary video driver? It might be worthwhile to disable it in case it became incompatible perhaps after a kernel upgrade.
Did you perform a graphical login prior?
Yes to both. What should i do
First, you might try booting an older kernel to see if that runs for you. Your bootloader such as grub might help you pick an old one.
The older kernels are actually combinations of kernel + initial ramdisk that contains the version of your graphics drivers that were being used at that time. It could be a way to test the hypothesis.
* zoom in on the error message
Yep, of course it's Nvidia.
Every time I have seen a funky black screen with text against my will Nvidia was involved.
It's good to see that the same problems from Knoppix in 1998 still persist into 2024.
It's become my standard procedure to do a full backup before a major version upgrade of Linux nowadays as a result
Xserver has failed to start.
Gotta love xorg
Knoppix
now there's a name I haven't heard in ages...
Looks like it wants to remove the cause but not the symptom.
That's the novideo graphics card for you
It's a known and fixed problem. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1062932
That was on the kernel 6.1.0-18, I had it too, fixed several days ago, but in OP picture the kernel is 6.1.0-17, that one wasn't affected.
Nvidia card?
Yup
Boot to command line. You have to install the nvidia drivers. Don’t turn on the gui until you get it working. Crazy I had the same issue several years ago
That explains it
Good luck
MommysBabygiwl ?? On the third line. Is this canon to debian lore or did OP change it to that?
that's the hostname
Ah i see ty
Nice! That looks like a fun one.
Ikr. So fun
Did you solve it? Recently there was a problem with graphics thing and downgrading mess from 1.24 to 1.23 helped me. It was in arch with AMD graphics, but some people said Nvidia ones also had the problem.
Edit: mesa not mess
Yes. Apt-cache is mounted on /home which allowed me to update fully
I had same problem on Arch based distros, it's Nvidia problem. Try booting with LTS kernel.
if your updates included a new kernel try installing the kernel headers for the new kernel.
then if it's still not working reinstall the nvidia driver.
i used to daily drive debian with proprietary nvidia drivers and it would break with every kernel upgrade
from memory, so almost certainly incorrect, the fix was simply something like
sudo apt install linux-headers-`uname -r` && sudo rebootI would be looking for ways to revert that update. Either using a pre-existing timeshift shapshot or maybe apt's built in reversion capability. (Which I'm not familiar with, sorry.) Hopefully someone with real skills will chime in, good luck.
You may want to go back to driver 525... im not running debian at the moment, nor do i use mvidia graphics, but this page seems to say that 525 is the newest supported version as of feb 2
Oh no! It was only supposed to happen to Arch.
You bought an Nvidia graphics card.
Yeah. Why would anyone expect one of the most popular video cards in the world to work in Linux. Those idiots.
Just to be clear. I understand why a proprietary card may not work. It isn't Linux's responsibility to make it work. However, what isn't acceptable is for the automated update system of an OS to break a working system. Proprietary driver or not. The update system should have thrown up some very strong warnings that proceeding would break the system.
I know, shame on me. Its like i wasnt on linux when i bought this computer
Pretty much sums up every thing
