gdm not displaying any graphics in Ubuntu 19.04

[BertN45]

My hardware: GT218 in a NVIDIA GeForce 8400GS rev 3.
Driver: Nvidia 340.107

Ubuntu 19.04 does not display any graphics, it stays at the display of the CLI, after announcing the start of the gnome display manager.

I tried a fresh install of Ubuntu 19.04 and I tried to add the Ubuntu desktop to Xubuntu 19.04 with the same display manager, giving the same result.
The driver works well with Xubuntu 19.04 and Ubuntu Mate 19.04.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: gdm3 (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-47.50-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-47-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.6
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: MATE
Date: Tue Apr 23 16:15:02 2019
SourcePackage: gdm3
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[BertN45 (lammert-nijhof)]

I had a power-fail during processing the bug, so probably some info is lost.

[BertN45 (lammert-nijhof)]

The nouveau driver does work with Ubuntu 19.04.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Please try this as a workaround: edit /etc/gdm3/custom.conf and uncomment the line:

   #WaylandEnable=false

Then reboot.

[BertN45 (lammert-nijhof)]

OK! That solved my problem. Thank You

On 23/4/19 10:09 p. m., Daniel van Vugt wrote:
> Please try this as a workaround: edit /etc/gdm3/custom.conf and
> uncomment the line:
>
> #WaylandEnable=false
>
> Then reboot.
>
> ** Tags added: nvidia
>
> ** Changed in: gdm3 (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Great!

That makes this a duplicate of bug 1798790.