wayland (probably) crashing on N3150

[Hadmut Danisch]

Hi,

I just installed 17.10 (64) from the regular 17.10 ubuntu desktop image onto a ASRock Beebox N3150 with N3150 CPU and

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 21)

After Installation the system booted (but required the nodmodeset flag, otherwise the screen remains black and shows just the mouse pointer or nothing) and showed the regular graphical login (gdm I guess), but immediately after entering the password the system reproducably froze with a black screen. Even the mouse pointer. (Since I had no second computer at the moment, I cannot tell whether the kernel was dead or still working to allow network login.)

There's web pages like https://itsfoss.com/switch-xorg-wayland/ telling how to start the session with X11 instead of Wayland, but in contrast to this description the session selection button was absent. I then brought the machine into recovery mode and tried to install more sessions, but did not find the suitable package which brings the "Ubuntu on Xorg" session.

I then gave up and reinstalled the system from scratch with Lubuntu 17.10, which worked well, and to take this as a starting point to install other desktops like ubuntu and xubuntu. They all are installed and work, but they do run Xorg/X11. I don't see how to make the system start Wayland now.

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[gorgooger (gorgooger)]

Well,
How should we do this?
We cannot pinpoint this to a single package, the screen stays black, as soon as the graphics is switched.
When you upgrade from 17.04 to 17.10 on an Acer R11 you will not be able to access the device locally.

[gorgooger (gorgooger)]

booting Ubuntu-17.10.1 or Ubuntu-18.04 Aspire R3-131T results in a black screen right from the beginning.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner.

Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) reached end-of-standard-support on May 31, 2023.
Ubuntu 17.10 (artful) reached end-of-life on July 19, 2018.

I'm setting the status of this bug to 'Incomplete' as it's not seen any activity for some time. If this is still an issue when using a currently maintained release of Ubuntu then please let us know which one(s) otherwise this bug report can be left to expire in approximately 60 days time.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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