Ubuntu 22.04 boots to a black screen with a visible cursor

Question

Similar to this issue ubuntu-20-04-boots-to-black-screen-with-flashing-cursor Ubuntu 22.04 also boots to a black screen, however the linked solution doesn't appear to fix the issue for this version.

Answer 1

If WaylandEnable=false is commented in /etc/gdm3/custom.conf, uncomment WaylandEnable=false by removing the # character at the beginning of the line and rebooting.

At the black screen follow these steps:

1. Press the Ctrl+Alt+F3 keyboard combination to show a virtual console.
2. Edit /etc/gdm3/custom.conf with sudoedit /etc/gdm3/custom.conf
3. Uncomment out the line that contains WaylandEnable=false by removing the # character at the beginning of the line.
4. Use the keyboard combination Ctrl + O and after that press Enter to save the file to its current location. Use the keyboard combination Ctrl + X to exit nano text editor which was launched by sudoedit.
5. Reboot with sudo reboot

Answer 2

I experienced a similar issue with the newest 22.04 update. What worked for me was ctrl+alt+F1 to enter the tty, logging in and purging/updating the GPU drivers.

Answer 3

I just started with a sudo reboot before any other thing. I got this.

Note: I also use grub to multiboot.

After a hard power off and power on everything works.