I had the blank screen, no login screen problem.
The computer was otherwise running though.
I ssh-ed from another computer to the problem computer
to execute the suggested commands.
If on a home network you can login to your router with a
web browser to get the IP address for your problem computer.
Mine was 192.168.1.3
The following fixed the problem for me.
First I did (without the comment).
sudo apt-get install lightdm # This showed lightdm was installed
Second I did uname -r and found the completion for
the linux-headers-$(uname -r) command.
I don't know why I didn't use the suggested:
sudo apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
Then I did the suggested commands, one after the other:
sudo apt purge gdm3
sudo apt purge nvidia*
sudo apt install linux-headers-4.13.0-16-generic # ADJUST THIS
sudo apt install nvidia-384
sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm # Suggested when 1st command ran
sudo shutdown -r now # Restart
Went to the problem computer, the login screen came up.
The Desktop Environment that was selected was:
Ubuntu on Xorg(Default)
I was able to login.
My problem computer is at least 10 years old.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1705369
Title:
Ubuntu 17.10 boots to black screen when using Nvidia drivers (on a
desktop with an Intel GPU)
Status in gdm3 package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-375 package in Ubuntu:
Won't Fix
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-384 package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Ubuntu 17.10 boots to black screen when using Nvidia drivers (on a
desktop with an Intel GPU)
WORKAROUNDS:
* Disable integrated graphics/GPU in your BIOS.
* Add 'nomodeset' to your kernel command line.
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION:
This bug is very similar to
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-gnome/+bug/1559576
which is closed. I have been asked to open a new bug report.
The issue is on Ubuntu 17.10 with gdm3 fully updated as of July 20,
2017. I upgraded to 17.10 from a freshly installed Ubuntu 17.04.
- Lightdm works
- Nouveau driver works
- Nvidia driver 375.66 (proprietary) does not work
- Nvidia driver 384.47 (open source) does not work (from
https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa)
- Nvidia drivers work with Ubuntu Gnome 17.04
I am using Nvidia GTX 1080 and Intel i7-4790K
lsb_release -rd:
Description: Ubuntu Artful Aardvark (development branch)
Release: 17.10
apt-cache policy gnome-shell:
gnome-shell:
Installed: 3.24.2-0ubuntu7
Candidate: 3.24.2-0ubuntu7
Version table:
*** 3.24.2-0ubuntu7 500
500 http://sa.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
uname -s -r -v -p -i -o:
Linux 4.11.0-11-generic #16-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 12 20:40:19 UTC 2017 x86_64
x86_64 GNU/Linux
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