You're welcome. In this case the correct status is 'Invalid' since it's not a bug in the default Ubuntu installation. That said, I may investigate changing the default file we install so that it's more obvious and people are less likely to make the same mistake if they want to change anything.
** Changed in: gdm3 (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gdm3 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1808125 Title: Ubuntu 18.10 boot hangs with INTEL GRAPHICS at msg "Starting bpfilter" Status in gdm3 package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: This is not a question, but I found no thread to report this bug and workaround on NON-NVIDIA-BASED systems: Ubuntu 18.10, kernel 4.18.0-12-generic, GNOME Shell 3.30.1 on X11, after a Dec 9 update: Boot hangs at message, "Starting bpfilter." Gnome Display Manager (login) fails to start. No keyboard response, tapping the power button just once immediately initiates power-down. Other users have reported successfully fixing this by removing nVidia drivers or disabling Wayland in GDM3 (uncommenting WaylandEnable=false in /etc/gdm3/custom.conf.) However, my HP laptop runs Intel graphics, and has no nVidia drivers installed. WORKAROUND I selected Enable Networking in Recovery Mode, then Drop to Shell Prompt (root,) and ran apt update && apt install slim to install SLiM display manager. the installation prompted me to choose SLiM or GDM as the default, I chose SLiM, and was able to login finally (after rebooting 50+ times.) If you already have an alternate display manager installed, you can switch with "sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm" and select the alt dm. This will probably be just a provisional workaround for the "bpfilter hang" on non-nVidia systems if all the other suggested solutions didn't work for you. BTW, I also tried LightDM a former Ubuntu DM, but got the identical bootup hang. --- ProblemType: Bug ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13.1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: GNOME DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10 InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-05-07 (219 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426) NonfreeKernelModules: wl Package: gdm3 3.30.1-1ubuntu5 PackageArchitecture: amd64 ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-12.13-generic 4.18.17 Tags: cosmic Uname: Linux 4.18.0-12-generic x86_64 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo _MarkForUpload: True mtime.conffile..etc.gdm3.custom.conf: 2018-12-10T07:21:25.671742 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm3/+bug/1808125/+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