Ubuntu
gnome-shell package

  1. Bug #1811668
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 1811668

Revision history for this message
Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

> gnome-shell[30907]: Failed to create backend: No resources

I don't think that's an error. It's just telling you the Nvidia driver doesn't support Wayland (which always gets tried first). In theory gdm3 is then meant to drop back to Xorg in this case (as Seb says). But some Nvidia users (including Laney) have reported that this fallback doesn't work for them:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm3/+bugs?field.tag=nvidia

So this bug is possibly a duplicate of one of those.

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

   #WaylandEnable=false

Reboot, and if that fixes the problem then it appears to be a duplicate of bug 1798790.