Just did the Nvidia-525.85.05-1 update this morning—rebooted to commandline. Looks like there is a problem with this one-reverted to 525.78.01-1 & everything came back. Just a “Heads-up”.
Have not seen any other reports on this yet. Running current Gnome & system is current.
linux-headers
Because nvidia packages are kernel-related and only work when running with the kernel they are built on if not using nvidia-dkms package …
I have all of those…nvidia has been solid for me for months until this update this morning. I used downgrade to go back to 525.78.01-1 to get back to normal. Downgraded nvidia-dkms, nvidia-settings & nvidia-utils.
OK—so this looks like a problem with the update & GDM/Gnome…GDM won’t even start --just shows a blinking cursor in the upper left corner. I can get into a commandline season the usual way & work the “usual” way–no GUI session…Again, as soon as I downgraded–GDM started normally & I was in a Gnome session.
you should be able to downgrade the 3 nvidia packages to get x back: sudo downgrade nvidia-dkms nvidia-utils nvidia-settings
and in the dialogue make sure to use 525.78.01-1 from the selection … if you do not have internet connection choose in addition you can take the local present ones marked as local…