application does not display anything

[Brian Murray]

I just did a fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04.5 and the when launching nvidia-settings the GUI does not display anything.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: nvidia-settings 470.57.01-0ubuntu0.20.04.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-46.49~20.04.1-generic 5.15.39
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-46-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.24
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Aug 30 11:06:06 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-08-30 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20220829.1)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nvidia-settings
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Its empty and expanding the vertical bar on the left (which looks like a text box) also doesn't reveal any information.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

This was visible in the terminal when I ran nvidia-settings:

ERROR: Unable to load info from any available system

(nvidia-settings:7822): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 11:42:14.321: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
** Message: 11:42:14.326: PRIME: No offloading required. Abort
** Message: 11:42:14.326: PRIME: is it supported? no

However, I am using the nvidia driver:

bdmurray@bdmurray-Standard-PC-Q35-ICH9-2009:~$ nvidia-detector
nvidia-driver-470
bdmurray@bdmurray-Standard-PC-Q35-ICH9-2009:~$ lsmod | grep nvidia
nvidia_uvm 1204224 0
nvidia_drm 69632 0
nvidia_modeset 1200128 1 nvidia_drm
nvidia 35446784 8 nvidia_uvm,nvidia_modeset
drm_kms_helper 307200 4 qxl,nvidia_drm
drm 618496 9 drm_kms_helper,qxl,nvidia,drm_ttm_helper,nvidia_drm,ttm

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
https://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1988209

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Downgrading nvidia-settings to either of the versions listed below did not change anything.

     470.57.01-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 500
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/main amd64 Packages
 *** 440.64-0ubuntu1 500
        500 http://192.168.10.7/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status