nvidia driver stops on setting color profile

[Wolf Rogner]

Every other time the boot process is halted by the NVIDIA card

Log entries:

Nov 6 11:49:09 mbpr15 systemd-resolved[1109]: Processing query...
Nov 6 11:49:14 mbpr15 systemd[1]: Stopping NVIDIA Persistence Daemon...
Nov 6 11:49:14 mbpr15 nvidia-persistenced: Received signal 15
Nov 6 11:49:14 mbpr15 systemd[1]: Stopping Manage, Install and Generate Color Profiles...
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Reboot required

Normal behaviour would be:

Nov 6 11:49:42 mbpr15 nvidia-persistenced: Received signal 15
Nov 6 11:49:42 mbpr15 systemd[1]: Stopping NVIDIA Persistence Daemon...
Nov 6 11:49:42 mbpr15 whoopsie[1034]: [11:49:42] Using lock path: /var/lock/whoopsie/lock
Nov 6 11:49:42 mbpr15 nvidia-persistenced: Socket closed.
Nov 6 11:49:42 mbpr15 nvidia-persistenced: PID file unlocked.
Nov 6 11:49:42 mbpr15 nvidia-persistenced: PID file closed.
Nov 6 11:49:42 mbpr15 nvidia-persistenced: The daemon no longer has permission to remove its runtime data directory /var/run/nvidia-persistenced
Nov 6 11:49:42 mbpr15 nvidia-persistenced: Shutdown (1036)
Nov 6 11:49:42 mbpr15 whoopsie[1034]: [11:49:42] Could not get the Network Manager state:
Nov 6 11:49:42 mbpr15 whoopsie[1034]: [11:49:42] GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files
...

There is no guarantee that the boot process works the next time (so I have to try several times).

A workaround is to boot into recovery mode and continue from there (works always).

I have tested the videocard with macOS and the card is reported to work fine (several times).

This behaviour is new to 16.10 (nvidia-367, proprietary, tested). It does not occur using the X.Org Nouveau driver (this one is just dead slow and does not work well with presentation equipment).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: nvidia-367 367.57-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-26.28-generic 4.8.0
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-26-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm wl nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Nov 6 11:53:31 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-10-22 (15 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Release amd64 (20161012.2)
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-367
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Wolf Rogner (war-rsb)]

Maybe these two logs help

the old one is the one where the boot process stopped