[Solved] Lost DE after Intel microcode update

[TomFo]

Greetings all,

I installed the latest Intel microcode update and now can only log into a console. The plasma DE no longer appears as it used to. Doing a STARTX from CLI only gives me a cursor and a black screen. I use Nvidia-340 drivers. Is there a way to get the DE back without having to reinstall?

Thank you.

[TomFo]

Purging Nvidia driver, rebooting and then adding the Nvidia driver back cleared the issue.