Hangs on boot

[Dave Ostrander]

After upgrade to 18.04, hangs on boot.
Specifically, when UBUNTU screen displays, hangs on first "dot"

I believe due to old integrated Intel graphics.

sudo lshw -C video
  *-display UNCLAIMED
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 02
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0

PC is an old Dell Inspiron 530

Is there a work around/fix?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu7.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-33.36-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-33-generic x86_64
.tmp.unity_support_test.1:

ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: None
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Sep 7 19:08:35 2018
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: bionic
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:29c2] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Dell Inspiron 530 [1028:020d]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-01-02 (613 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 530
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.15.0-33-generic root=/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root ro recovery nomodeset
Renderer: Software
SourcePackage: xorg
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 02/24/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1.0.18
dmi.board.name: 0FM586
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: OEM
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr1.0.18:bd02/24/2009:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron530:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0FM586:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct3:cvrOEM:
dmi.product.name: Inspiron 530
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.13.1+18.04.20180302-0ubuntu1
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.91-2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 18.0.5-0ubuntu0~18.04.1
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 18.0.5-0ubuntu0~18.04.1
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.10.5-1ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:18.0.1-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20171229-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.15-2
xserver.bootTime: Wed Sep 5 21:51:07 2018
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.devices:
 input Power Button KEYBOARD, id 6
 input Power Button KEYBOARD, id 7
 input Dell Dell USB Keyboard KEYBOARD, id 8
 input USB Optical Mouse MOUSE, id 9
xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.version: 2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

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 1727356, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.