Look into what could cause blank screen issue

[Rigidity]

The cause is unknown (and it seems rare) but this is a pretty serious issue that can't be recovered from unless you wipe the app data.

[dkackman]

This one may help #369

[KevinOnFrontEnd]

Hi,

I've experienced a white screen on debian (bookworm) when opening up. Not sure if what i have experienced is the same thing. A few things that may help

• Desktop Environment: xfce4
• OS: Debian Bookworm
• Gfx Driver: NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-570.153.02 (from nvidia site) 570.153.02

I got it working in the end, it's a little unclear what the fix was though. A few steps that i tried

• Updated to debian trixie
• Rolled back to nvidia driver 535.247.01 from trixie apt repo.
• Booted up into xfce and it worked fine.

Running the apt update log (/var/log/apt/history.log) through chatgpt seems to suggest that there was an issue with gpu acceleration when using the first driver. A few things that i checked once sage no longer showed a white screen was checking to see if sage showed up in **nvidia-smi ** (which it does) and that that sage-tauri process uses the nvidia libraries.

• ps -aux | grep sage
• sudo grep -iE 'vulkan|nvidia|egl|dri|libgl' /proc/ID/maps

In my case i think it was probably a graphics driver issue.