GDM starts about 3 minutes after boot on nvidia

[Kirill Afonshin]

Binary package hint: nvidia-current

GDM and X doesn't start during boot when I'm using nvidia drivers. I have to wait about 3 minutes or start it manually from console. It works fine with novuveau or intel (but HL2 doesn't). Hardware: sony vaio vgn-sz640n.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: xorg 1:7.5+6ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
.proc.driver.nvidia.version:
 NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 260.19.06 Mon Sep 13 04:29:19 PDT 2010
 GCC version: gcc version 4.4.5 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.4.4-14ubuntu4)
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: c581293ed87551e20debf32c654f8c5c
CheckboxSystem: b633b4f40868d491c2ae5b50030ce6f3
Date: Thu Sep 23 13:18:34 2010
DkmsStatus: nvidia-current, 260.19.06, 2.6.35-22-generic, x86_64: installed
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha amd64 (20100803.1)
MachineType: Sony Corporation VGN-SZ640N
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic root=UUID=67771214-c6be-4bbc-907c-c7058bf77551 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=ru_RU:ru:en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
dmi.bios.date: 04/04/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
dmi.bios.version: R0122S5
dmi.board.asset.tag: N/A
dmi.board.name: VAIO
dmi.board.vendor: Sony Corporation
dmi.board.version: N/A
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Sony Corporation
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologiesLTD:bvrR0122S5:bd04/04/2008:svnSonyCorporation:pnVGN-SZ640N:pvrR5402753:rvnSonyCorporation:rnVAIO:rvrN/A:cvnSonyCorporation:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: VGN-SZ640N
dmi.product.version: R5402753
dmi.sys.vendor: Sony Corporation
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: maverick
 architecture: x86_64
 kernel: 2.6.35-22-generic

[Joey Brown (jocefus)]

This affects my machine as well, though it started after recent updates to lucid. I am not sure which one as a lot of updates were applied, including gdm. I upgraded to maverick with hopes of remedying the issue, but to no avail. However, its only about 1 minute on my amd64 desktop and gdm finally starts with some error briefly displayed: (process 522) GLib- warning**: get pwvid-r(): failed due to unknown user id (0)

[Stanislav Sidorenko (ssidorenko)]

This affects me too. I'm using 10.10, 460 GTX.

However I found that nouveau kernel module is still loaded on boot even if nvidia proprietary driver is installed and activated. When I blacklisted nouveau the issue looks to be fixed.

It is needed to create /etc/modprobe.d/disable-nouveau.conf file with the following two lines added:
blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0

After doing this I didn't meet this issue for 3 days.

Bug 657106 looks to be a duplicate of this one.

[Kirill Afonshin (pmvd)]

Creating /etc/modprobe.d/disable-nouveau.conf and 'modprobe -r nouveau' didn't solve the problem for me.

[Kirill Afonshin (pmvd)]

Workaround: add the following line to /etc/rc.local:
/etc/init.d/gdm start&

[kaefert (kaefert)]

Thanks Kirill Afonshin! I can confirm your workaround to work and the other one with disable-nouveau.conf to not work on my machine

[Stanislav Sidorenko (ssidorenko)]

> After doing this I didn't meet this issue for 3 days.

> disable-nouveau.conf to not work on my machine

Ah, yes. Seems it was just a coincidence. I've met this problem once again. It occurs on my machive not every time, but on every fifth or sixth boot.