** Description changed: gdm3: Installed: 3.28.3-0ubuntu18.04.3 Description: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS Release: 18.04 I expect the greeter to load every boot. - Instead, gdm3 is not stable on my Ubuntu 16.04 system, it will work for + Instead, gdm3 is not stable on my Ubuntu 18.04 system, it will work for either one or several boots after I take corrective action, but inevitably this results in the greeter not loading. The graphics card on my Intel Core i5 system is an Nvidia GTX 970, and I manually installed nvidia-driver-415 when I could not load a greeter as soon as I had installed. Searching here and elsewhere, I have tried many things to resolve this, which I will outline below. If you know something else I can try - to get make gdm3 stable - please let me know. Even with WaylandEnable=false uncommented in /etc/gdm3/custom.conf, I usually cannot login, instead of the greeter I would see either a black screen or graphic distortion like a black screen with some pink lines across the top, and I am only able to login setting nomodeset. With gd3 not working, I tried lightdm, and on encountering similar issues switched back to gdm3 again: sudo apt-get install gdm3 sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm3 This seemed to work - kind of, for the first few days I could boot most of the time. I have quiet splash permanently removed from my boot options, and boot was sometimes hanging on Started NVIDIA Persistence Daemon as in the attached images. Another time with gdm3 I saw the following output instead of the greeter, also attached. How can I begin to resolve this issue please?
** Description changed: gdm3: Installed: 3.28.3-0ubuntu18.04.3 Description: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS Release: 18.04 I expect the greeter to load every boot. - Instead, gdm3 is not stable on my Ubuntu 18.04 system, it will work for - either one or several boots after I take corrective action, but - inevitably this results in the greeter not loading. The graphics card on - my Intel Core i5 system is an Nvidia GTX 970, and I manually installed - nvidia-driver-415 when I could not load a greeter as soon as I had - installed. + Instead, gdm3 is not stable on my system, it will work for either one or + several boots after I take corrective action, but inevitably this + results in the greeter not loading. The graphics card on my Intel Core + i5 system is an Nvidia GTX 970, and I manually installed nvidia- + driver-415 when I could not load a greeter as soon as I had installed. Searching here and elsewhere, I have tried many things to resolve this, which I will outline below. If you know something else I can try - to get make gdm3 stable - please let me know. Even with WaylandEnable=false uncommented in /etc/gdm3/custom.conf, I usually cannot login, instead of the greeter I would see either a black screen or graphic distortion like a black screen with some pink lines across the top, and I am only able to login setting nomodeset. With gd3 not working, I tried lightdm, and on encountering similar issues switched back to gdm3 again: sudo apt-get install gdm3 sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm3 This seemed to work - kind of, for the first few days I could boot most of the time. I have quiet splash permanently removed from my boot options, and boot was sometimes hanging on Started NVIDIA Persistence Daemon as in the attached images. Another time with gdm3 I saw the following output instead of the greeter, also attached. How can I begin to resolve this issue please? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm3 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1811674 Title: Even withg WaylandEnable=false gdm3 only loads sometimes To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm3/+bug/1811674/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
