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My 20.04 install is suddently not booting into gnome. It just boots to the dreaded black screen with a blinking cursor. I can ctrl-alt-F* my way into a virtual console, but that's it.


journalctl -xe produces the following:


Jan 17 15:01:32 Desktop dbus-daemon[1477]: [session uid=1000 pid=1477] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.secrets' requested by ':1.9' (uid=1000 pid=1528 comm="/usr/libexec/goa-daemon " label="unconfined")
Jan 17 15:01:32 Desktop gnome-keyring-daemon[1566]: couldn't access control socket: /run/user/1000/keyring/control: No such file or directory
Jan 17 15:01:32 Desktop gnome-keyring-d[1566]: couldn't access control socket: /run/user/1000/keyring/control: No such file or directory
Jan 17 15:01:32 Desktop dbus-daemon[1477]: [session uid=1000 pid=1477] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.secrets'
Jan 17 15:01:32 Desktop dbus-daemon[1477]: [session uid=1000 pid=1477] Activating service name='org.gnome.keyring.SystemPrompter' requested by ':1.15' (uid=1000 pid=1566 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --start --foreground" label="unconfined")
Jan 17 15:01:32 Desktop org.gnome.keyring.SystemPrompter[1573]: Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
Jan 17 15:01:32 Desktop gcr-prompter[1573]: cannot open display:
Jan 17 15:01:32 Desktop dbus-daemon[1477]: [session uid=1000 pid=1477] Activated service 'org.gnome.keyring.SystemPrompter' failed: Process org.gnome.keyring.SystemPrompter exited with status 1
Jan 17 15:01:32 Desktop gnome-keyring-daemon[1566]: couldn't create system prompt: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process org.gnome.keyring.SystemPrompter exited with status 1
Jan 17 15:01:32 Desktop gnome-keyring-d[1566]: couldn't create system prompt: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process org.gnome.keyring.SystemPrompter exited with status 1
Jan 17 15:01:32 Desktop goa-daemon[1528]: secret_password_lookup_sync() returned NULL
Jan 17 15:01:32 Desktop goa-daemon[1528]: /org/gnome/OnlineAccounts/Accounts/account_1598527013_0: Setting AttentionNeeded to TRUE because EnsureCredentials() failed with: No credentials found in the keyring (goa-error-quark, 4)
Jan 17 15:01:42 Desktop systemd[1465]: tracker-extract.service: Succeeded.
-- Subject: Unit succeeded
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://www.ubuntu.com/support
--
-- The unit UNIT has successfully entered the 'dead' state.
Jan 17 15:01:56 Desktop pulseaudio[1471]: GetManagedObjects() failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
Jan 17 15:01:56 Desktop dbus-daemon[607]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.bluez': timed out (service_start_timeout=25000ms)
Jan 17 15:02:04 Desktop tracker-store[1554]: OK
Jan 17 15:02:04 Desktop systemd[1465]: tracker-store.service: Succeeded.
-- Subject: Unit succeeded
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://www.ubuntu.com/support
--
-- The unit UNIT has successfully entered the 'dead' state.

I've found some ideas for resolving this in the Arch boards, but that's it. Any ideas are appreciated.


Thanks!


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This is also happening to me. I was trying to resolve unwanted printers constantly loading. After stopping the services related to that issue, I rebooted and got the dreaded black screen.


After 4 hours of searching and trying a lot of things, including the above boot repair, I ended up looking at my video drivers. At the command prompt, I entered



sudo apt remove nvidia-340



I rebooted after this and it booted to my desktop environment.


Not sure if this will help you or not, but it did work for me.


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