Comment 11 for bug 1773113

I've got the same issue with a GTX 1080 on a desktop (lenovo ideacentre). Upgraded over time from 16.04 (as hibernate didn't work to)->17.04.->17.10 and last week to 18.04.
I tried installing nvidia-390 and nvidia-396 with all three methods (bionic package, ppa package, nvidia run script). I even tried to install the older nvidia-387 with nvidia-run script after switching nouveau driver off. Didn't work as some kernel headers don't seem to fit, so installation script aborted. I also tried to upgrade the kernel from 4.15.0-22.24 to 4.15.18, 4.16.13 and newest 4.17 release with ukuu. With newer kernels, I did not even got a gui screen (even with and without nvidia-drivers). I also tried to switch to wayland, but couldn't get it working, allthough I switched to lightdm and seen the login screen with the option (but didn't logged me in successfull).

At some point it gets absurd, if I'd handle kernel versions and co, I could use arch linux or w/e and not use ubuntu. Atm, I only can either reinstall 17.10 (that runs out of support soon), what's pretty meh, or use my desktop as pure server without a gui where I could at least run a jupyter notebook server and use it for machine learning as intended. But of course, I didn't bought it as server system intentionally. Has anybody a clue how likely the bug keeps in 18.04 (will it be fixed when 17.10 is out of support).

To be honest, that's first time I serious think about switching distributions :-o Since I've left Windows I never rebooted my computer so often. Here, the most nasty about the bug is that it is so silent after release-upgrading. I only discovered after wondering what makes machine learning slower as usual. So, I assume there will be much more new 18.04 users who have the same problem, but have not yet realized something is wrong as not everybody runs tensorflow-gpu/pytorch or games all the time.