What logs to check? I tried `journalctl -xe` and I don't see anything.
Brian
Well, you don't give us much to go on, but my first thought was dmesg, which I guess translates to journalctl -k. You will also see other messages if you look at the user side with --user. I think the gui runs on the user side, not the system side.
If you aren't seeing anything, I would check to see how you are configed and if you are trying to start a gui and/or run startx, or similar, manually and see what happens.
I assume you are running X and not Wayland. I don't know anything about Wayland and I understand it is still a bit limited and buggy.
Come to think of it, I don't know much about systemd either. Only what I've come across in my own troublshooting. I just had a goround with a bunch of sound system issues. Annoying, but I guess I learned a lot LOL.
I guess I've mellowed a bit on systemd and am a little less hostile. I'm not quite sure I'm a fan yet. I wanted to have an ssh connection established on behalf of a specific user at start up, regardless of if they log in. I tried several different systemd "approaches" but it just keeps restarting until it reaches the max and dies. I can see how this way is a little more integrated than the "old" way. If only I could get it to work LOL. I'll probably end up using cron @reboot, which has its own set of issues to deal with.
On Sat, Nov 01, 2025 at 04:06:52PM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
What logs to check? I tried `journalctl -xe` and I don't see anything.
Brian
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On Sun, Nov 02, 2025 at 11:07:31AM -0800, Gary wrote:
Well, you don't give us much to go on, but my first thought was dmesg, which I guess translates to journalctl -k. You will also see other messages if you look at the user side with --user. I think the gui runs on the user side, not the system side.
If you aren't seeing anything, I would check to see how you are configed and if you are trying to start a gui and/or run startx, or similar, manually and see what happens.
I assume you are running X and not Wayland. I don't know anything about Wayland and I understand it is still a bit limited and buggy.
I checked the fedora docs and it looks like I can run the following command.
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/configuring-x-window-system-...
``` Xorg :1 -configure ```
I feel sort of dumb because I am not exactly familiar with the details on Wayland. I remember digging into Xorg back in the day and the Wayland stuff just seemed to work. Except, that doesn't quite seem to be the case with older Nvidia cards.
I will check the `journalctl -k`. I was checking `journalctl -xe` and I didn't see anything... This could explain why!
Brian
I got my system working. I removed the Nvidia stuff and it now runs Nouveau. The nvidia cards seem to often give grief!
Removed nvidia packages
``` sudo dnf remove "*nvidia*" ```
Did the regenerate of the ramdisk
``` sudo dracut --force --regenerate-all ```
Removed nvidia blacklist from /etc/default/grub
`` GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="resume=UUID=a2af97f4-58c5-4ac6-9a89-04c0cd7f333d rhgb quiet" ```
Updated the grub boot
``` sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg ```
Reboot and it works.
On Wed, Nov 05, 2025 at 05:20:39PM -0800, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
On Sun, Nov 02, 2025 at 11:07:31AM -0800, Gary wrote:
Well, you don't give us much to go on, but my first thought was dmesg, which I guess translates to journalctl -k. You will also see other messages if you look at the user side with --user. I think the gui runs on the user side, not the system side.
If you aren't seeing anything, I would check to see how you are configed and if you are trying to start a gui and/or run startx, or similar, manually and see what happens.
I assume you are running X and not Wayland. I don't know anything about Wayland and I understand it is still a bit limited and buggy.
I checked the fedora docs and it looks like I can run the following command.
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/configuring-x-window-system-...
Xorg :1 -configureI feel sort of dumb because I am not exactly familiar with the details on Wayland. I remember digging into Xorg back in the day and the Wayland stuff just seemed to work. Except, that doesn't quite seem to be the case with older Nvidia cards.
I will check the `journalctl -k`. I was checking `journalctl -xe` and I didn't see anything... This could explain why!
Brian
-- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/
"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
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