Ubuntu 18.10 boot hangs with INTEL GRAPHICS at msg "Starting bpfilter"
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gdm3 (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
This is not a question, but I found no thread to report this bug and workaround on NON-NVIDIA-BASED systems:
Ubuntu 18.10, kernel 4.18.0-12-generic, GNOME Shell 3.30.1 on X11, after a Dec 9 update:
Boot hangs at message, "Starting bpfilter." Gnome Display Manager (login) fails to start. No keyboard response, tapping the power button just once immediately initiates power-down. Other users have reported successfully fixing this by removing nVidia drivers or disabling Wayland in GDM3 (uncommenting WaylandEnable=false in /etc/gdm3/
However, my HP laptop runs Intel graphics, and has no nVidia drivers installed.
WORKAROUND
I selected Enable Networking in Recovery Mode, then Drop to Shell Prompt (root,) and ran
apt update && apt install slim
to install SLiM display manager. the installation prompted me to choose SLiM or GDM as the default, I chose SLiM, and was able to login finally (after rebooting 50+ times.)
If you already have an alternate display manager installed, you can switch with "sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm" and select the alt dm.
This will probably be just a provisional workaround for the "bpfilter hang" on non-nVidia systems if all the other suggested solutions didn't work for you. BTW, I also tried LightDM a former Ubuntu DM, but got the identical bootup hang.
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ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-05-07 (219 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: gdm3 3.30.1-1ubuntu5
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
Tags: cosmic
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-12-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
_MarkForUpload: True
mtime.conffile.
Changed in gdm3 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Invalid |
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2. Take a photo of the problem if you can.
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