gdm3 and or gnome plus nvidia failing to start right
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| gdm3 (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
While testing 19.04 yesterday and installed nvidea gtx 390 drivers from additional drivers, rebooted.
It didn't work and came up with a bunch of text showing what happens and stops something about starting gdm and just stays their.
Pasting my reddit post of what I did to work around this problem. I didn't do anything special during the install.
Ubuntu set everything up.
This leads to gdm3 refusing to start. It'll show ubuntu then a bunch of starting stuff...then come to a screaching halt at something about gdm starting
Work around(after finding and doing a clean install: Egad I had to do a lot of googling to find this. Bear with
Before you reboot so that the nvidia card works open a terminal and do these
sudo apt-get install nvidea-common
then sudo -H gedit find etc gdm3 custom.conf
find the line that says
#WaylandEnable=
change it to look like
WaylandEnable=false
| description: | updated |
| Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote | #1 |
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 1798790, 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.