Xorg freeze when using nvidia driver 390

[Nicolas Michel]

Hi,

Since the installation of Ubuntu 18.10, I get the login screen but once logged in I get a black screen. It happens only with the proprietary nvidia driver 390. If I remove the nvidia driver to use nouveau, it works.

My graphic card is: NVIDIA Corporation GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070 Ti]

So the automatic report in attachement will show you no nvidia driver installed. It's because I am doing this bug report after removing the nvidia driver to be able to get a desktop.

In attachement I add the journalctl of the preview boot which failed with nvidia driver.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-8.9-generic 4.18.7
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-8-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu11
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: None
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Oct 3 09:19:03 2018
DistUpgraded: 2018-10-03 00:59:01,660 ERROR got error from PostInstallScript ./xorg_fix_proprietary.py (g-exec-error-quark: Failed to execute child process “./xorg_fix_proprietary.py” (No such file or directory) (8))
DistroCodename: cosmic
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
 virtualbox, 5.2.18, 4.15.0-36-generic, x86_64: installed
 virtualbox, 5.2.18, 4.18.0-8-generic, x86_64: installed
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes
GpuHangFrequency: Continuously
GpuHangReproducibility: Yes, I can easily reproduce it
GpuHangStarted: Immediately after installing this version of Ubuntu
GraphicsCard:
 NVIDIA Corporation GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070 Ti] [10de:1b82] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070 Ti] [1043:8620]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-09-17 (380 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170915)
MachineType: System manufacturer System Product Name
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.18.0-8-generic root=UUID=567a9b2b-0864-450e-9cfe-dab7a54b9fce ro rootflags=subvol=@ quiet splash vt.handoff=1
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
Title: Xorg freeze
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to cosmic on 2018-10-02 (0 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 09/28/2012
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 0501
dmi.board.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: P8Z77-V LX2
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
dmi.board.version: Rev X.0x
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr0501:bd09/28/2012:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:rnP8Z77-VLX2:rvrRevX.0x:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.family: To be filled by O.E.M.
dmi.product.name: System Product Name
dmi.product.sku: SKU
dmi.product.version: System Version
dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer
version.compiz: compiz N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.94-1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 18.2.1-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 18.2.1-1ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.20.1-3ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:18.1.0-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20171229-1build1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.15-3
xserver.bootTime: Wed Oct 3 09:03:39 2018
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.errors:

xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.outputs:

xserver.version: 2:1.20.1-3ubuntu1

[Konstantin Vlasenko (mlnk1981)]

Ubuntu 18.10. No login screen after Nvidia-410 drivers installation.
System accessible via ssh.
Only after purge nvidia drivers login screen back and system works fine

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Konstantin Vlasenko (mlnk1981)]

Problem is in GDM3. I removed it and installed lightdm. OS booted normally.

[Konstantin Vlasenko (mlnk1981)]

Solution is

Please try, in the /etc/gdm3/custom.conf, uncomment WaylandEnable=false and Nvidia driver will work with gdm3.

Works fine.

[giantmundo (ray-carter)]

This worked for me as well.

I must say the whole business with gdm and lightdm etc is very frustrating. Every upgrade is a problem. Heaven help the man on the street. We will never get them on board unless all graphics issues are resolved prior to a release hitting the street.

[ccdisle (sim-blk)]

Uncommenting "WaylandEnable=false " worked for me as well.

Removing gdm3 did not work, I just got redirected to a tty3 login shell.

Thanks

[Konstantin Vlasenko (mlnk1981)]

Coz u need install another display manager instead of removed gdm3, lightdm for example.
But uncomment WaylandEnable in gdm3 config is much easir solution of coz

[ccdisle (sim-blk)]

That makes sense. Lightdm was never there, which probably means there was no other display manager.

[John Babrick (johnbabrick)]

Uncommenting "WaylandEnable=false " worked for me as well. And, the GPU is back and working for SETI.

[bblrlo (bblrlo-gmail)]

I have KUbuntu installed with sddm and have same problem with my GT630M on 390 and 396 drivers.

[gugaiz (gugaiz)]

Uncommenting "WaylandEnable=false" line on /etc/gdm3/custom.conf left my computer without booting the UI, it got stuck with the message "A start job is running for Hold until boot process finishes up (Xmin Xs/no limit)", I was not even able to switch to terminals using CTRL+ALT+FX. To fix it I had to boot on "safe mode" and comment out that line again to at least boot using Wayland.

This happened after I upgraded from 18.04 to 18.10

[SimonFoley (simon-d-foley)]

CTRL-ALT-F2 followed by CTRL-ALT-F1 bypassed the issue for me. However I have now uncommented the WaylandEnable in gdm3 config, and that allows the boot sequence to complete and display the login screen.

[mohammad (yosefpor)]

thank you. uncommenting "WaylandEnable=false " worked for me as well. now I can use android studio emulator with hardware accelerator.