I tried switching from Wayland to Xorg but unfortunately my mouse has totally disappeared and also my computer has developed a giant lag after every keystroke. I don’t think it happened immediately because I was able to go and reset auto logon. Then next reboot it went wrong.
Not sure what happened. I have tried a couple of reboots. Unfortunately I now can’t access the menu to turn off auto log in to try and get back to Wayland.
What can I do? My computer is basically unusable.
I'm not sure what happened. You could try to press ctrl+alt+t to open a terminal, then type
sudo nano /etc/gdm3/custom.conf
And look that the line which begins with Wayland enable is set to true.
WaylandEnable=true
Then press ctrl+o to save, enter and ctrl+x to quit.
Then run
sudo systemctl restart gdm3
I don’t have a WaylandEnable=True line but the WaylandEnable=False line is commented out suggesting I may actually be in Wayland. Perhaps it isn’t a Wayland/Xorg issue at all
Then it doesn't work this way, sorry.
No, it doesn't mean that you are running Wayland at the moment, just that the Wayland function is possible on the system and you can choose between Xorg and Wayland.
The timed login lines are all commented out too which surprises me. It’s the first time I’ve ever looked at this routine.
One thing to mention, one of my start up programs is my SpiderOak One back up, which seems to have run but is still on the screen. I wonder if that might have fouled something up. Is there a way to kill it from the terminal to see if that fixes things?
You can try
killall -9 SpiderOakONE
To me, this looks a lot like a graphics issue. What graphics are you using?
sudo lshw -C video
I did kill spideroak by doing prep SpiderOak and then kill and the job number returned but it didn’t bring back my mouse and the crazy delay is still there.
I have intel graphics if I recall. If I do lshw have no way of paging up in the terminal output to find the right section.
I would not think it would be that long, especially if you maximize the window. Bu the pageup and pagedown keys should work...
Sorry, intel Rocket Lake-S GT1 UHD graphics 730
Up and down arrows and also page up page down just seem to cycle back into all the commands I have previously entered in terminal. Without mouse I cannot maximize or move the window
Oh well... That halts the common culprits, then.
Ok, some quick questions:
What method did you use to switch to Xorg?
At any point was a Hard Shutdown performed?
I went into setting/system and unchecked auto login then rebooted hit the cogwheel and selected Zorin in Xorg
Yes I did a hard reset earlier. I had tried hitting esc during reboot as first way of getting out of autologin but I got a repetitive error and a terminal like screen that I tried things like journalctl which didn’t return anything. I think I got it to try again but didn’t seem to be going anywhere so hardrebooted.
Also there was a software update as I was starting the switchover to xorg
My screen just timed out and moving the mouse brought it back so mouse is not totally dead (light is on too) may just be the pointer I don’t have. But also, not sure why the crazy lagging.
Are you thinking a hard reboot now might fix things or are you thinking the previous hard reboot screw edit up?
A hard reboot can cause file corruption. Given your symptoms - it is worth asking about given that the circumstances in the moment made a hard reboot seem likely to have happened.
But...
Can you reboot, access the grub menu and boot from an earlier kernel?
Right now, it really sounds like Extreme Lag is the primary issue - like your CPU is spinning on overdrive.
I am standardly using 6.8. Is that early enough? Should I try one of the recovery choices?
You are on 6.8 and it is the same kernel you were on before all this? If so, we can discount that idea. My thinking was if the upgrade brought the 6.17 kernel.
I am rebooting now
Ok I have
You are in emergency mode, after logging in type journalctl -xb to view system logs
Systemctl reboot to reboot or exit to continue boot up
Give root password for maintenance or ctlD to continue
What is your
journalctl -xb
output?
And yes - this definitely is not a Wayland or Xorg issue...
Looks like file system corruption.