Noted!

systemctl status sddm

● sddm.service - Simple Desktop Display Manager
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/sddm.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Mon 2018-08-13 16:49:27 MST; 50min ago
     Docs: man:sddm(1)
           man:sddm.conf(5)
 Main PID: 1446 (sddm)
    Tasks: 16 (limit: 4915)
   Memory: 247.7M
   CGroup: /system.slice/sddm.service
           ├─1446 /usr/bin/sddm
           └─1471 /usr/libexec/Xorg -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/sddm/{32230f9f-9d81-443d-8a2c-b8bd3ca0a87d} -background none -noreset -displayfd 16 -seat seat0 vt1

Aug 13 16:49:27 testlaptop.test.domail systemd[1]: Started Simple Desktop Display Manager.
Aug 13 16:49:27 testlaptop.test.domail sddm-helper[1489]: pam_unix(sddm-greeter:session): session opened for user sddm by (uid=0)
Aug 13 16:49:34 testlaptop.test.domail sddm-helper[1724]: pam_kwallet5(sddm:auth): (null): pam_sm_authenticate
Aug 13 16:49:34 testlaptop.test.domail sddm-helper[1724]: pam_kwallet5(sddm:setcred): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_setcred
Aug 13 16:49:34 testlaptop.test.domail sddm-helper[1724]: pam_unix(sddm:session): session opened for user testuser by (uid=0)
Aug 13 16:49:34 testlaptop.test.domail sddm-helper[1724]: pam_kwallet5(sddm:session): pam_kwallet5: pam_sm_open_session
Aug 13 16:49:34 testlaptop.test.domail sddm-helper[1724]: Starting: "/etc/X11/xinit/Xsession \"/usr/bin/startkde\""

(Host and domain are what is actually set, not placeholders, and I just realized I typo'd domain...)

Thomas

On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 5:38 PM Ed Greshko <ed.greshko@greshko.com> wrote:

On 08/14/18 08:27, Thomas Letherby wrote:
> Sorry, I wasn't entirely clear there, I meant the major components (GFX, CPU family
> etc) rather than down to any particular board rev, although It's not really been
> out that long, so there's probably not been any revs yet.
>
> My kids decided they'd bother my wife at the grocery store, so I dd get a chance to
> re-install and pull some logs before I try installing the graphics drivers again
>
> So to start this again, in the proper manner:
>
> Dell XPS 15 9570
> i7 8th Gen
> GeForce GTX 1050Ti 4GB
> 1TB SSD
> 32GB RAM
> 4K touchscreen
>
> BIOS changes from default:
> Secureboot off
> Drive Controller ACPI (From RAID)
> Powershare on (For charging USB devices)
> Turn off WiFi when Wired LAN connected
>
> Booted from USB the latest download of the KDE spin
>
> Added dis_ucode_ldr and nomodeset=1 to grub otherwise it won't successfully boot.
>
> Installed to blank SSD, custom partitioning with encryption.
> Allocated a bit more space to / from /home.
>
> Installed.
>
> Laptop boots successfully and appears stable.
>
> nomodeset=1 has seemingly persisted from the install.
>
> I ran dnf update to make sure everything was up to date.
>
> I pulled dmesg, lspci messages, and the X logs and dumped them all to pastebin here:
>
> https://pastebin.com/srDCLx8N
>
> My next step will be to add the Fedora workstation repo and attempt to install the
> nVidia drivers from there, following the guide here:
>
> https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA
>
> Before I do is there any other diagnostics, tests logs etc I should pull before I
> beginning for before/after comparison?
>

Yes.  Since, based on previous post, it seems the problem to be related to sddm you
should save the output of....

systemctl status sddm


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