Wayland login option is missing if booted with the monitor turned off

Bug #1919400 reported by Daniel van Vugt
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gdm3 (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Medium
Unassigned
mutter (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Wayland sessions are missing/not supported, if booted with the monitor turned off.

and the system log suggests why:

gnome-shell[1007]: Failed to create backend: No GPUs with outputs found

Tags: jammy wayland
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote : Re: Wayland support is missing, if booted with the monitor turned off

Looks like a feature that's been there since 3.30:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/commit/deb541ef5a

summary: - Wayland sessions are missing/not supported, if booted with the monitor
- turned off
+ Wayland support is missing, if booted with the monitor turned off
Changed in gdm3 (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in mutter (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in gdm3 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
Changed in mutter (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
tags: added: impish
summary: - Wayland support is missing, if booted with the monitor turned off
+ Wayland login option is missing if booted with the monitor turned off
tags: added: jammy
removed: hirsute
tags: removed: impish
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