Random crashes and no Flatpak on Discovery

Aurora
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Hi!

I’m a new user that just installed Aurora, was excited to try it but I’ve been having some issues.

First one that I kind of fixed but maybe not in the best way, is that Aurora sometimes randomly would freeze or sometimes even crash and restart my computer.

I tried to do a system update and it got worse, it would just freeze in the login screen. Needed to revert to the initial installation on boot to enter the OS again. From some other posts here I’ve seen people having trouble with NVIDIA and that might be my issue since I have a RTX 3080. Yes I installed Aurora-dx with the NVIDIA ISO

The “way” I fixed it was to rebase from stable to latest, since then I haven’t had any freezing or crashing, but I don’t know if that is a good solution since stable should mean stable/working.

My second issue that I haven’t found a solution and also haven’t found someone having the same issue here/reddit/google, and was having this issue before I did the rebase, is that on Discovery I can’t install any application since it says the following:

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In the settings I have the Flathub source configured, can’t put another image but is the default one: dl.flathub.org

Clicking the “Add Flathub” button does nothing.

I also tried the CLI command but changed nothing:

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

If I do flatpak remotes on the CLI it shows flathub is installed (flathub system)

Is there anyone that could help me pass this issues?

Thank you!

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So which image are you on now? rpm-ostree status

You could try the nvidia-open image which uses the newer open drivers from Nvidia.

Not sure about the flathub issue though, that sounds strange. Might be somehow a corrupted install.

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Thank you for the reply.

I’m using nvidia-open since in the options is the one for nvidia RTX cards.

I have already reinstalled it before opening this post and it stayed the same, and I’m going to give another try with writing the bootable USB drive again and reinstalling again.

EDIT:
After writing the bootable USB driver again and reinstalling Aurora again, it started crashing right after the login.

After that I tried my luck with bluefin, and is working just fine. Don’t know if it was the KDE that was causing the issues or nvidia since bluefin does not have nvidia-open.

Well, going to try bluefin for a bit I guess.

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Welcome. The only difference between stable and latest is the Kernel is newer. So that may be why nVidia works better on latest for you.

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Here is some discussion on stability.