Comment 4 for bug 1872123

Thanks for your reply. I did tick the "proprietary drivers" checkbox during the installation, but for some reason nouveau was enabled afterwards. As for the session-switching gear, it doesn't appear at all when NVidia drivers are enabled.

Now, the problem persists even on a fully up-to-date beta. But at the same time, if there was a widespread issue of such a magnitude (it does prevent booting in normal conditions) affecting NVidia users, other people should be affected...

I'm going to assume that I just picked the wrong beta build at the wrong time. If I have some time to spare, I'll check if the issue persists on a fresh install with the latest daily build. Otherwise, I'll just cross fingers and hope that I was simply unlucky and that, when the final release hits next week, everything will be fine on a fresh install.