Freeze on startup unless recovery mode used (nvidia)

[RibShark]

My elementary os is freezing at startup unless recovery mode is used. It freezes on the splash screen just after the mouse is first displayed.

I once got it to work normally but only once and it randomly worked.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: elementary OS 0.2
Package: elementary-desktop 1.284-0~355~precise1 [origin: LP-PPA-elementary-os-daily]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-33.52-generic 3.2.31
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-33-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu15+elementary3~precise1
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: elementary_meta
Date: Fri Nov 16 18:10:28 2012
InstallationMedia: elementary OS 0.2 "Luna" - Beta 1 amd64 (20121114)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: elementary-meta
SuspiciousXErrors:

ThirdParty: True
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Alfred (alfredo-gore)]

I have the same problem.

[Cody Garver (codygarver)]

What graphics card? An nvidia something? With or without proprietary drivers?

[RibShark (ribshark)]

nVidia 635m w/ bumblebee + proprietary drivers. After installing bumblebee (so it will get past lightdm), boots the first time, and then subsequent boots freeze, can't even get into tty using ctrl+alt+f1/2/3/4.

[RibShark (ribshark)]

Not duplicate: cannot drop into shell.

[RibShark (ribshark)]

Also other bug freezes with text, this freezes on splash. I know because I have experienced both.

[Cody Garver (codygarver)]

It seems there are 2 separate nvidia-related breaks. Or there's 1 that leads to the other when you try to workaround it.

[Alfred (alfredo-gore)]

Todays kernel update seems to have fixed this for me.

[RibShark (ribshark)]

Confirmed, system now booting normally every time after updating kernel!

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

RibShark, could you please post the output of "uname -a"? We need to know the exact kernel version that fixes it.

[RibShark (ribshark)]

Linux Elementary-PC 3.2.0-33-generic #52-Ubuntu SMP Thu Oct 18 16:29:15 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

I've got a report that this happens only if you choose to install updates on installing the system

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

so my current hypothesis is that installing updates somehow pulls in nvidia proprietary driver and leaves it in an unconfigured state

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

Ubuntu 12.10 suffers similar issues due to missing headers package for their kernel.

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

Cody found out that installing or not installing updates during OS installation does not affect this bug.

I'm reopening the bug for now (even though it's likely a duplicate of bug 1078977) so it doesn't get lost.

[schoobami (adam-shiervani)]

I found a temporary solution for those whom encountered this bug. while booting press Ct rl + Alt + F2 and login..

[Ace (hakarune)]

This is currently a problem for me, just installed the from the x64 torrent iso (With network and dl updates during install enabled)and tty login works, but no gui startup, stuck in tty. Trying some ideas from ubuntu forums.

Tried:
[code]
sudo apt-get install lightdm
sudo apt-get install lightdm-greeter-example-gtk
sudo stop gdm
sudo start lightdm
[/code]

Getting Failed to load session "Gnome"

Just Tried: to Re-installing nvidia-current

Will let you know if it worked when i get home

[Ace (hakarune)]

Note: My install freezes on boot at the "Checking Battery State [ok]" section

Note2: And TTY = I accessed via [ctrl + alt F2]

[Ace (hakarune)]

Got it to finally boot!

nvidia-current didn't fix anything, but what did was:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bumblebee/stable

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia linux-headers-generic

Reboot

[thndsr (stijnverwaaijen)]

For what it's worth, I simply switched to TTY1, upgraded the system and rebooted into a solid session.

[thndsr (stijnverwaaijen)]

I forgot to mention that it indeed pulled in proprietary nvidia (304 if I'm not mistaken), which is weird.

[Cody Garver (codygarver)]

Anyone tried this with beta2 iso?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for elementary OS because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Christopher (cdhornb)]

I can confirm this on freya beta 1

[Himanshu Mishra (himanshu-m786)]

This happens on my "elementary OS 0.4 Loki" and also on my previous install "freya".