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. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to mesa in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1752053 Title: nvidia-390 fails to boot graphical display Status in mesa package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: I'm using Bionic with the new 4.15 kernel. I've been using the nvidia-384 driver with no problem for a while. Today I issued "sudo apt-get upgrade" and I was prompted to upgrade the nvidia driver to the nvidia-390. After installing the driver and rebooting, I was only able to boot in to the tty terminal. The graphical display failed to boot. I have had similar problems with nvidia driver version 390 with Arch Linux and with Open Suse Tumbleweed. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mesa/+bug/1752053/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
