NVIDIA TU102 [GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Rev. A] [10de:1e07] Subsystem [10de:12fa] Freeze after upgrading 18.04 LTS to 20.04 LTS with NVIDIA's driver.

[Janne Heikkinen]

After upgrading 18.04 LTS to 20.04 LTS X started to freeze at the login when using NVIDIA's driver 440.82 or 440.100.

When investigating log files, the following was found in Xorg.0.log:

"(EE) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Failed to acquire modesetting permission."

To prevent the freeze, adding kernel command line parameter "nvidia_drm.modeset=1" was required.

Nouveau driver had already been blacklisted, as it has never been stable on the computer in question.
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ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.3
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC1: jamse 1570 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC0: jamse 1570 F.... pulseaudio
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=346c2d17-3996-4471-8dbd-02abeb7c4798
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-07-03 (724 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
IwConfig:
 enp5s0 no wireless extensions.

 enp6s0 no wireless extensions.

 lo no wireless extensions.
MachineType: Supermicro X10DAx
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair nvidia_modeset nvidia
Package: linux (not installed)
ProcFB: 0 VESA VGA
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-39-generic root=UUID=28b3c329-b0b5-41aa-973e-64e82767b05f ro quiet splash nvidia_drm.modeset=1 vt.handoff=7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-39.43-generic 5.4.41
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-restricted-modules-5.4.0-39-generic N/A
 linux-backports-modules-5.4.0-39-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 1.187
RfKill:

Tags: focal
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-39-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-06-25 (1 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dialout dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
_MarkForUpload: True
dmi.bios.date: 02/23/2018
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 3.0a
dmi.board.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: X10DAX
dmi.board.vendor: Supermicro
dmi.board.version: 1.02
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: To be filled by O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.version: To be filled by O.E.M.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr3.0a:bd02/23/2018:svnSupermicro:pnX10DAx:pvr123456789:rvnSupermicro:rnX10DAX:rvr1.02:cvnTobefilledbyO.E.M.:ct3:cvrTobefilledbyO.E.M.:
dmi.product.family: SMC X10
dmi.product.name: X10DAx
dmi.product.sku: 083615D9
dmi.product.version: 123456789
dmi.sys.vendor: Supermicro

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[Janne Heikkinen (janne-m-heikkinen)]

I reported the issue to NVIDIA with their Display Driver Feedback and gave link to this bug as reference.

[Janne Heikkinen (janne-m-heikkinen)]

This might not be duplicate of bug #1879949, as I get the freeze also with linux 5.4.0-26-generic, which is said to work in bug #1879949 report.