Nothing changes. Also, before the issue began, during boot the only messages I saw were "kvm is disabled in bios" or something similar, while now after the issue appeared it also shows a few lines regarding some services being started successfully (such as apache server), dunno if this could be useful.
What happens if you roll liquorix back to 15.1?
KVM is 'kernel based virtual machine'. Enabling it may initialize addititional hardware or graphical abilities.
I tried booting with the option for Liquorix 15.1, but the issues are still there. Enabling KVM also didn't do anything to help. Booting with Liquorix 15.1 actually gives some more info, it gives me a "version mismatch" error with the Nvidia drivers, but it goes by too fast to catch the numbers. Booting into recovery mode (on 15.1) and then resuming boot just hangs. I installed nvidia-driver-450 via apt-get.
Well, that may be a clue- what have you tried with Nvidia drivers? This was my thinking on nomodeset - to see if disabling Nvidia makes a difference.
I uninstalled everything and purged all nvidia files, then reinstalled nvidia-driver-450.
What about the 460 driver?
the 460 driver just gives dependency errors, it never successfully installed even well before any issues appeared.
update, I tried fixing the dependency issues with the 460 driver but it just doesn't work. I installed version 450. The version mismatch error has been fixed, since I uninstalled and reinstalled the driver multiple times already and purged everything I suspect there might be something not related to the display driver causing issues.
Here are the results from booting attempts
Linux 5.4: display issue
Linux 5.4 from recovery mode: text is all boxes
Liquorix 15.1: display issue
Liquorix 15.1 from recovery mode: does not boot (blinking pointer)
Liquorix 16.1: display issue
Liquorix 16.1 from recovery mode: does not boot (blinking pointer)
(Display issue means very small resolution and all text is boxes)
What xserver are you using?
Have you tried reinstalling xorg-xserver?
sudo apt install --reinstall xorg
I tried and nothing changed, I'm using the default xserver. One of the things that could've caused issues, that is installing LoL via Wine, showed an error message about S3TC not being installed. Maybe it could have something to do with the issue?
nvidia-smi gives error "Failed to initialize NVML: Driver/library version mismatch", but I've purged everything every time I uninstall and reinstall. I'm gonna try and install an older version (nvidia-driver-390). Also, whenever I reinstall, it tells me "Need to get 0B/[total size] of archives", and I don't know how to purge that, maybe the issue lies there.
Edit: even with nvidia-driver-390 it gives me the version mismatch error.
It could. I never use WINE and am functionally useless about giving advice about it... I have no idea what software LoL is... Lord of Love? Lyrics of Llamas?
League of Legends. I uninstalled WINE but the issue is still there. I tried some guides to get rid of the version mismatch error but they don't work
Uninstalling WINE may not do the trick, as residual configuration files or pieces may still create the issue.
You would need to purge all of that to be sure.
I feel your pain, but am currently at a loss. Will keep searching- but I hope you have back ups ready considering your own attempts have been fruitless so far.
You did not log in on Wayland by accident at some point, did you?
I didn't. The issue just involves the graphics driver, so the files are still there and I can access them with a live USB or from Windows using DiskInternal's Linux reader. Reinstalling would be annoying however, as I'd have to set up and reinstall everything again. It's not really about file loss, it's about time loss. I'll try and look around and see if there are any Wine files or packages that I can remove.
I understand what you mean. In addition to removing configs from wine: Have you tried installing, then booting from, a newer kernel? Not Liquorix, but even an unsigned 5.8 or above kernel- to see if it helps?
I haven't. I'll try installing the 5.8 kernel.
I installed the latest Linux kernel and now it boots correctly but it only shows boxes instead of text. I used a font that's not preinstalled, maybe that's causing issues?
Edit: when I try to change fonts, the fonts app just crashes. It seems like all apps aside from GNOME ones work properly.
Can you try restarting Gnome Shell?
Or try
sudo apt install --reinstall zorin-os-desktop
I tried these solutions and they didn't work.