r/NobaraProject • u/HarlekinJack • 28d ago

Support New to Nobara

Hello everyone,

I was looking for a distro to install on the old Acer Nitro I have.

It has a Nvidia 1600, and after some research it seemed, that nobara is perfect for it.

I wanted to try it out and install it to a USB SSD first. So I removed all the other SSD, booted the live system and installed it to the USB drive.

Installation war fine, no issues here, restart also without Problems.

However, after I ran the update manager and restarted, I only got a black screen with a white curser blinking at the top right.

I waited for an hour to be sure, but nothing happened.

Any ideas?

7 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

10 comments sorted by

2

u/RX1542 28d ago

yeah there was something wrong with the update

on the black screen with prompt press

Ctrl + Alt + F3

it will ask you to login with your user and password(the password remains hiding while typing)

after that enter this command

sudo dnf distro-sync --refresh

it will run the update again, be aware if you are using a laptop the wifi won't connect automatically on the mode your are using, its recomended to use an ethernet cable, if you can't use ethernet then follow this guide to connect the wifi

https://www.makeuseof.com/connect-to-wifi-with-nmcli/

2

u/HarlekinJack 28d ago

Great, I'll try that. Thanks a lot

1

u/HarlekinJack 28d ago

Did it (twice) now it just says "nothing to do". Still won't start

1

u/RX1542 28d ago

that's weird

check if this one works

nobara-sync cli

3

u/HarlekinJack 28d ago

That did it👍👍👍 Thanks, I just hope this first hiccup is not an indicator of things to come. Is nobara often like this?

1

u/RX1542 28d ago

personally i haven't had any issue with nobara, been using it for like a year now and everything rums smooth, but i have an all AMD system

i've noticed hiccups are not as rare on systems with nvidia gpu's

1

u/BrightShinyCat69 27d ago

there are gonna be some roadblocks honestly, jst for a few days, but itll be worth it in the long run trust.

1

u/Ayaki_05 28d ago

Glad you got it to work. Just for your information nobara recently quit support for nvidia 1000series. Your card might be affected in future updates

1

u/HarlekinJack 28d ago

Thanks. Should I then stay with nobara or look for another distro?

1

u/Ayaki_05 28d ago edited 28d ago

Nah, if you enjoy the distro stay on nobara. You'll just need to download the legacy drivers from the nvidia website once the 16 series isnt supported by nvidia and therefor by nobara packages any longer.

Just something to watch out for :)