Black sceen with cursor instead of login window - sddm crashing due to graphics driver bug

[TraceyC77]

After updating my laptop to KDE Plasma 6.5.1 I had a crash in sddm, preventing me from logging in. It resulted in a black sceen with a cursor. The backtrace indicates a GPU driver problem.
(handleContextCreationFailure is always GPU related from what I’m told)

I had found this forum thread, with a similar backtrace, but that was in an older driver and that bug should be fixed. Also, I hadn’t seen this before today.

Black screen with cursor after sleep

Also getting this issue. This is the only bug report I’ve been able to find on Google with the same symptoms as myself, including the approximate timeframe. Currently have a 4060 GPU but same thing happened with a 3060, and I also have two monitors. System is up to date as of yesterday. Running X11; Wayland has too many issues for me to switch to ATM. In my experience 9 times out of 10 the black screen is permanent (even waiting for a couple of hours), and the only hope to get passed it is to s…

NVIDIA driver version 570.190

I tried the beta driver (580.95.05), as well as the developer driver (580.94.03). Those caused a crash as well with the same backtrace.

I’m attaching the nvidia-bug-report.log.gz as well as the backtrace (from 570.190). Let me know if there’s anything else that might help. I’m happy to provide more information.

nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (515.1 KB)

sddm_crash.txt (5.0 KB)

[amrits]

Hi @TraceyC77

Thank you for sharing logs, are you seeing this issue after booting up the system or after suspend/resume operation.

[TraceyC77]

Thanks for the reply. I was seeing this after booting the system. I haven’t seen this crash in a couple of weeks. Currently on:

NVIDIA binary driver 570.190
kernel 6.16.12