I recently did a PC build and all has gone fine except for having some major issues booting up. I’ve been going through stackoverflow and any resources I can find to get it sorted but I’m still having the issues.
I’ve outlined the steps and issues below and would really appreciate any help. My operating system is Ubuntu 22.04, I have an Intel i5 12600k CPU, Nvidia RTX 3060 GPU.
If I turn on the system and let it boot up without opening up the Grub menu, I’ll be greeted with the following screen and will be stuck there until I turn the system off.
So to try find the issue, I rebooted, this time opening the grub menu and going to Advance Options for Ubuntu → recovery mode. From here I access the root shell prompt and checked the status of gdm3. It turned out it was ‘inactive and dead’.
I then turned it on from the prompt and ensured it was on before continuing boot
I expected it would boot normally now, but instead I’m greeted with a similar page to the first. There’s just a white cursor flashing. But I can open the tty from there and successfully login, just no GUI. I rechecked gdm3 was still on in tty and it was.
I’m not sure what is going on. I tried installing various packages, using different display managers, installing different nvidia drivers, but nothing.
I can boot up with ‘nomodeset’ though, so that’s something. But I’m under the impression that if I set nomodeset to be on as default, that will interfere with the functioning of my GPU. Is that correct?
Any help would be appreciated. I didn’t accept third party packages when initially setting up, but I did do a “sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras ‘’ in case there was something I was missing from that. It was a minimal install I did when setting up. Ask as many questions as you want. I really need to get this sorted. Nvidia-smi shows my GPU and the installed driver. I have secure boot disabled.
Is there a way I could access logs?