Comment 165 for bug 1752053

I started to experience this problem for the first time on July 2nd, 2018 after upgrading to kernel 4.15.0-24-generic. It only happens on machines with a Nvidia card. It does not matter if ANY Nvidia drivers are installed or not. I downgraded to kernel 4.15.0-20, 0-22 and 0-23 but it didn't fix the issue. I confirmed this on 2 machines with Nvidia cards.

adding deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-proposed multiverse main universe restricted

to /etc/apt/sources.list

and running apt install libglvnd0 xserver-xorg-core libgl1-mesa-glx did not help. At least not on Linux Lite v4.0.

It's takes about 3mins and 6 seconds to get to the desktop. Everything works as normal after that.

So i ran some tests....

Lenovo ThinkPad W530
Model Type: 2436CTO GB
16GB RAM
Intel i7-3920XM @ 2.90Ghz
4 Core
256 SSD

lspci -vnn | grep VGA

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [8086:0166] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GK107GLM [Quadro K2000M] [10de:0ffb] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

Xubuntu 18.04 LTS (This is my main OS) - Broken

Kernel v4.15.0-24 after updates.

Updates downloaded during fresh install.

Works after fresh install but not after updates applied through Software Update.

Also tried kernel v4.17.0 and v4.17.3

login with ctrl+alt+f1 and after a few seconds i see:

nouveau 0000:01:00.0: msvld: unable to find firmware data

dmesg | grep nouveau

[ 34.304193] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for nouveau/nve7_fuc084 failed with error -2
[ 34.304206] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for nouveau/nve7_fuc084d failed with error -2
[ 34.304210] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: msvld: unable to load firmware data
[ 34.304277] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: msvld: init failed, -19

Kubuntu 18.04 LTS - Works

Kernel v4.15.0-20 after fresh install - Kernel v4.15.0-24 after updates.

Updates downloaded during fresh install. Full install selected.

Works after fresh install and after updates applied through Discover application.

KDE neon User Edition 5.13 - Works
16.04

Kernel v4.13.0-45 after fresh install - Kernel v4.15.0-24 after updates.

Updates downloaded during fresh install.

Works after fresh install and after updates applied through Discover application.

Installed nVidia driver v384.130 (nvidia-384) and still working.

Lubuntu - 18.04 LTS – Works

Kernel v4.15.0-20 after fresh install - Kernel v4.15.0-24 after updates.

Updates downloaded during fresh install. Full install selected.

Works after fresh install and after updates applied through Software Updater application.

Installed nVidia driver v390 (nvidia-driver-390) and still working.

Mate 18.04 LTS - Broken

Kernel v4.15.0-24 after updates.

Updates downloaded during fresh install. Full install selected.

Works after fresh install but not after updates applied through Software Update.

"Could not update ICEauthority file /home/user/.ICEauthority" appears during auto login. Desktop does not finishing loading but keyboard shortcuts work.

Elementary OS 0.4.1 Loki – Works

Kernel v4.15.0-24 after updates.

Updates downloaded during fresh install.

Works after fresh install and after updates applied through AppCenter.

Installed kernel v4.17.0 and v4.17.3 and still works. But did receive this warning when upgrading the kernel.

W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/skl_dmc_ver1_27.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_04.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/cnl_dmc_ver1_07.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/kbl_guc_ver9_39.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/bxt_guc_ver9_29.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/skl_guc_ver9_33.bin for module i915
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/nvidia/gp108/sec2/sig.bin for module nouveau
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/nvidia/gp108/sec2/image.bin for module nouveau
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/nvidia/gp108/sec2/desc.bin for module nouveau
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/nvidia/gp108/nvdec/scrubber.bin for module nouveau
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/nvidia/gp108/gr/sw_method_init.bin for module nouveau
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/nvidia/gp108/gr/sw_bundle_init.bin for module nouveau
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/nvidia/gp108/gr/sw_nonctx.bin for module nouveau
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/nvidia/gp108/gr/sw_ctx.bin for module nouveau
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/nvidia/gp108/gr/gpccs_sig.bin for module nouveau
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/nvidia/gp108/gr/gpccs_data.bin for module nouveau
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/nvidia/gp108/gr/gpccs_inst.bin for module nouveau
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/nvidia/gp108/gr/gpccs_bl.bin for module nouveau
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/nvidia/gp108/gr/fecs_sig.bin for module nouveau
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/nvidia/gp108/gr/fecs_data.bin for module nouveau
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/nvidia/gp108/gr/fecs_inst.bin for module nouveau
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/nvidia/gp108/gr/fecs_bl.bin for module nouveau
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/nvidia/gp108/acr/ucode_unload.bin for module nouveau
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/nvidia/gp108/acr/ucode_load.bin for module nouveau
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/nvidia/gp108/acr/unload_bl.bin for module nouveau
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/nvidia/gp108/acr/bl.bin for module nouveau

Installed nVidia driver v384.130 (nvidia-384) and still working.

Linux Lite 4.0 18.04 – Broken

Kernel v4.15.0-24 after updates.

Updates downloaded during fresh install.

Works after fresh install but not after updates applied through Install Updates.

Nvidia driver v390.48 installed.