Booting works until login, then after entering my password I get a noisy screen (no graphical interface?). Luckily, I can press Ctrl+Alt+F5
to switch to a TTY (full-screen terminal). My first idea was to bring the system up-to-date before looking at the possible other solutions
sudo apt update
sudo apt dist-upgrade
sudo reboot
but this has not helped. Neither did reinstalling the the login manager:
sudo apt install --reinstall gdm3 ubuntu-desktop gnome-shell
It might(!) be an issue with the graphics driver, so I entered
lspci | grep VGA
leading to
07:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Renoir (rev d3)
and
sudo dmidecode |grep Version
to
Version: AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 465U with Radeon Graphics
[...]
Version: ThinkPad T14 Gen 1
So now if I try to open some program which has a graphic interface I get the unable to open display
error. For example:
anaconda-navigator
gives me
2022-01-20 13:05:27,513 - WARNING linux_scaling.get_scaling_factor_using_dbus:31
An exception occured during fetching list of system display settings.
qt.qpa.screen: QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display
Could not connect to any X display.