Upgraded from freebsd 14.1 to 14.2 Gnome fails

tony33

tony33

So, I just last week upgraded Freebsd 14.1 to 14.2. I restarted the computer and followed the installation instructions.

Finished the installation and then shutdown the computer. 3 days ago used the computer and everything worked fine and I was working on my sshd setting up a key.

Now today I boot the computer and now I get a oops screen that something went wrong with gnome. I have the latest production version. gnome42.

I reinstalled the package gnome-desktop. It still doesn't work. I checked the messages logs and it doesn't show any errors related to gnome or gdm.

I am at a lost as to what the issue is. I can still use Ctrl alt and F1 to load up the terminal and the computer works fine without the desktop GUI. I just prefer to use gnome for the desktop GUI.

What should I look at to narrow down the possible issues?
 
tony33 said:
What should I look at to narrow down the possible issues?
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Unfortunately your system may be effectively bricked (?) until the package management system becomes fixed.
There's been much package rebuilding over the past week, but it seems not quite solved.
There's plenty of messages and fine grained details elsewhere in the forum.
HTH
 
tony33 said:
What should I look at to narrow down the possible issues?
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It sounds like Xorg is not working properly. From that, the logical place to look would be GPU drivers.

In FreeBSD, GPU drivers are a prerequisite for a working Xorg. So, make sure the GPU drivers match the FreeBSD version. This means that the GPU drivers need to come from the repo for 14.2-RELEASE, not from the repo for 14.1-RELEASE. If the packages for your GPU are difficult to install using the pkg install command, try compiling them from ports if you know how to do that.

Once basic Xorg works, then any DE will work fine.

So, to repeat: The first thing to check here is that the GPU drivers work correctly. Meaning, that amdgpu, i915, or correct nvidia driver - they should be from the correct repo, and visible via kldstat.

bgroper : No, the system is definitely not bricked - OP can use the command line. THAT does not require a GPU driver.
 
fff2024g said:
please hold some time. the gnome packages was built in time. most people got the same problem.
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So, it's the gnome system that the code needs to be fixed?

I can run startx and get a very plain gui old school look and that runs fine. However, I am using terminal for now.
I just want to know .. if it's on the programmers end and I just need to wait until they fix it.
Thanks for letting me know. That why I can go back to working on getting my sshd to work with my keys. Which is what I was doing
but out of nowhere the gnome system caused issues and I know I didn't touch anything. I then went from working on getting my keys to work to now
trying to figure out why gnome doesn't work anymore.
 
tony33 said:
You could try to use the command hit Ctrl Alt and f1 and then login and then type command
Code: 
startx
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Once startx works, and you can actually see the basic Xorg/TWM on your screen, that's when you know it's time to configure a login manager like SDDM or XDM. But first things first, is startx working for you?
 
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