Computer never gets to the GDM3 login screen when nvidia- is installed
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gdm3 (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Critical
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I've experience this on two separate computers with two different nvidia cards. No optimus or Intel cards in the equation. I'm running Yakkety 16.10 with a (pure) and up-to-date Ubuntu Gnome from the gnome3-staging PPA.
Activating the proprietary NVIDIA drivers is probably the first thing anyone does, if he's got an NVIDIA card. After all, that's the point of getting one in the first place. But GMD3, the _only_ display manager installed with Ubuntu Gnome, doesn't work with _any_ of the Nvidia drivers required by the yakkety 4.8 kernel. (Nvidia must be 367 or higher, 364 doesn't cut it anymore.) The result is that anyone (i.e. everyone) who tries to activate the proprietary drivers won't be able to boot past a black screen devoid of useful information.
I've managed to temporarily bypass this inconvenience by switching to lightdm, but people installing Ubuntu Gnome can't be counted on to try this or even know about this. This really should work out of the box (and after activating the drivers).
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: gdm3 3.20.1-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Tue Oct 11 14:37:28 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-10-07 (4 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Alpha amd64 (20161006)
SourcePackage: gdm3
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
summary: |
- Computer never gets to the GMD3 login screen when nvidia- is installed + Computer never gets to the GDM3 login screen when nvidia- is installed |
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1559576, so it is being marked as such.
That bug is also mentioned in the release notes:
https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/XenialXerus /ReleaseNotes/ UbuntuGNOME# Known_Issues /wiki.ubuntu. com/YakketyYak/ ReleaseNotes/ UbuntuGNOME# Known_Bugs
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