Kubuntu 24.04 Fails to Boot on Dell XPS 13 w i7

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I’ve been using Kubuntu exclusively on my desktops and laptops for many years, mostly because I really like KDE. Recently I installed 24.04 on my late model Dell XPS 13 laptop with an i7 ands EVO chipset. I overwrote an earlier 22.04 install.

Right away I noticed that it took about 2 minutes to wake from sleep when I open the lid. Now after I select Kubuntu from the grub menu that’s it, the screen goes dark as it usually does for a few seconds while booting but nothing happens after that. I can make the keyboard back lights change, but the display remains dark. I’m choosing to be annoyed and not investigate why.

Considering this I’m tempted to leave the dreaded Canonical snaps behind and jump ship to a different KDE distro.

Do y’all have any suggestion? Manjaro does not appeal to me. KDE Neon might not be stable enough for my taste. I want to stay with a distro based on Debian because I’m so familiar with using terminal commands like apt. Maybe MX Linux?

I had considered Linux Mint with Cinnamon.

Open to suggestions, not interested in troubleshooting Kubuntu though.

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Hi Steve,

I have been using Linux Mint Cinnamon for the past 5 years as my main OS both for my desktop and laptop. I also use MX Linux with Xfce some of the time. My desktop is dual boot with Mint and MX. MX also support KDE.

Since I use both OS’s, I believe both Mint and MX are excellent choices.

Happy hunting for your next Linux.
Howard

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Linux mint debian editing is superb, just installed it and its fast, much better than windows 11 that was on the nachine before.

Removed that after unfixable virus issues

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I have to agree with Howard.
Mint is Ubuntu based but avoids snaps
MX is Debian based and has no snaps.

If you want something smaller there is Linux Lite and Antix.
Peppermint is in between, Debian or Devuan based

Real Debian ( or Devuan) are both quite workable too, if you want to stick close to the source.

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I ended up putting KDE Neon on my XPS 13 and I dee diddly love it. Problem solved.

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@Steve_Rider - I know what your Problem is. It’s a nasty thing due to plymouth login service.

You have to edit the /etc/default/grub

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="splash" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="nosplash"

Leave anything as is just change splash to nosplash

To do this go to GRUB recovery mode when GRUB menu shows up. Then do sudo nano /etc/default/grub/. Edit as above and then type sudo update-grub

If you cannot, Then, Go to grub shell during boot by pressing Shift Key continuously during dell logo.

After going to it, you will see just grub> alone in it. Type normal and press enter will get you to normal grub menu. If not, do as below. The only way to boot.

There, press ls and list your partitions.

Find your boot partition by set root=(hd0,gpt2) and then type in enter ls /boot

You will see an output as below :

grub-shell-1
grub-shell-11534×471 90.2 KB

If you get an output like this, then enter the following line by line. Then, It will boot. If not, change the gpt# part above until you find boot partition.

For the case of SSD

linux /boot/vmlinuz-6.8.0-31-generic root=/dev/nvme0n1p2 ro quiet nosplash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-6.8.0-31-generic
boot

In case of HDD do as below

linux /boot/vmlinuz-6.8.0-31-generic root=/dev/sda2 ro quiet nosplash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-6.8.0-31-generic
boot

After booting change the grub config as in first para. Use nano, Change value and update.

Somebody link this answer here - system installation - Kubuntu 24.04 not booting - Ask Ubuntu

They will hit this page when it doesn’t work as first result in Google. They could fix it by my answer. This is a tested fix. Help from Reddit and ChatGPT.

I cannot create account on AskUbuntu, it throws error for me. So, Whoever has a account, please do link it or create an account and post it if you can.

Happy computing !

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Hi @Ikel_Atomig ,
Thank you.
It is nice to hear from someone who has an understanding of a problem as well as a fix.
Someone will help with AskUbuntu.
Regards
Neville