Blank/black screen/terminal when installing - Left partially installed/configured

[GrahamJenkins]

(1) Issue/Bug Description: I have used pop shell on at least three installs/machines in the past. Recently I ran a fresh install of Ubuntu 22.04, installed the prerequisites (ts, make etc) and ran the install process.

After a couple of seconds, instead of a successful install, I ended up in a black/blank terminal that would print key escape characters, but would not otherwise respond to input. The only way out was to reboot the system.

More interesting than just failing to (fully) install, it turns out that pop shell is in a "mostly" installed state. I was able to find and enable it in the gnome tweaks/extensions area, configure settings, however a lot of features are not working.

• Focus on hover doesn't work
• Gaps were wonky but seem to have started working properly
• Keyboard shortcuts were not (all) set properly
• Other general bugginess

(2) Steps to reproduce (if you know): Fresh install of Ubuntu 22.04 Hardware: Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 5, 40 GB RAM, 256 GB NVMe, 12th gen i7, nvidia GPU using open source drivers Note: I cloned the repo into a ~/code/pop-shell folder. I imagine this shouldn't affect anything, but if any of the scripts rely on it being cloned specifically into ~/shell ...

(3) Expected behavior: A normal install, not a black screen

(4) Distribution (run cat /etc/os-release): Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

(5) Gnome Shell version: 42.5

(6) Pop Shell version (run apt policy pop-shell or provide the latest commit if building locally): Github latest: https://github.com/pop-os/shell/commit/b5acccefcaa653791d25f70a22c0e04f1858d96e

(7) Where was Pop Shell installed from: Git clone into ~/code/pop-shell

(8) Monitor Setup (2 x 1080p, 4K, Primary(Horizontal), Secondary(Vertical), etc): Single 4k (laptop) display

(9) Other Installed/Enabled Extensions: n/a

(10) Other Notes: Not my first install. I think I installed twice on Ubuntu on another laptop in the past, had it working on this machine in Fedora a couple of months ago and was expecting smooth sailing going back to Ubunut 20.04 (for other unrelated issues)

I am now 90%+ functional, but window focus (following mouse) does not work which is really irritating. But I do have a working system.

[ricksorensen]

I ran into the same problem with trying to install for secondary user on my system (Ubuntu 22.04). That user had the default "Ubuntu" desktop which I believe is Wayland driven. From the black screen with escape sequences printed, I did a Ctrl-C which terminated the user login. Logging in again returned the normal desktop.

I cleaned up the attempted install - deleting .local directories and disabling/uninstalling popos extension.
I then switched user logon desktop to "Ubuntu on Xorg", and reran the install with: $ make local-install &> doinstall which completed, and now the tiling icon appears. The window manager did not appear to restart, and the only difference on the screen was the appearance of the tiling icon. doinstall.txt

(This is my first time with PopOS Tiling)

• Mouse clicks switch tiles, but hover does not switch keyboard focus. Is this a setting?
• Don't know much about shortcuts so didn't test. I need to practice/learn
• Gaps seemed okay - not sure what to expect.

[jay-oswald]

I had the same issue installing on wayland 22.04, using the master_jammy branch. Re-trying using xorg did seam to fix it for me as well