You have been subscribed to a public bug: I have had the screen go blank several times. Each time that this occurred, I was selecting the "Settings" item from the upper right corner arrow. Perhaps there are a lot of low level accesses that occur when this menu item is selected that somehow locks up the ASPEED AST driver or some other part of the display? When this problem occurs, the only way I have been able to recover is to power cycle the system. The info collected for this bug report was taken after rebooting the system.
I originally had a problem that the initial login screen did not display (blank screen) but I came across the following that provided a solution of disable Wayland: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1872091 I am not able to reproduce the problem at will. I can usually access the "Settings" without a problem. However, each time the screen has gone blank it was right after clicking on the "Settings" menu item. I have six identical machines (Supermicro SYS-5019C-FL) and this problem has occurred on several of them. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu14 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-49.55~20.04.1-generic 5.8.18 Uname: Linux 5.8.0-49-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.16 Architecture: amd64 BootLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/boot.log' CasperMD5CheckResult: skip CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins' CompositorRunning: None CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Thu Apr 15 08:16:08 2021 DistUpgraded: Fresh install DistroCodename: focal DistroVariant: ubuntu ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical GraphicsCard: ASPEED Technology, Inc. ASPEED Graphics Family [1a03:2000] (rev 41) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Super Micro Computer Inc ASPEED Graphics Family [15d9:1b0e] InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-04-13 (1 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.2.0 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20210209.1) MachineType: Supermicro Super Server ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.8.0-49-generic root=UUID=9242ef3a-0904-41c6-8ee2-4c224bb71e1a ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: xorg Symptom: display UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 10/05/2020 dmi.bios.release: 5.13 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: 1.5 dmi.board.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M. dmi.board.name: X11SCL-IF dmi.board.vendor: Supermicro dmi.board.version: 1.01 dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M. dmi.chassis.type: 17 dmi.chassis.vendor: Supermicro dmi.chassis.version: 0123456789 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1.5:bd10/05/2020:br5.13:svnSupermicro:pnSuperServer:pvr0123456789:rvnSupermicro:rnX11SCL-IF:rvr1.01:cvnSupermicro:ct17:cvr0123456789: dmi.product.family: To be filled by O.E.M. dmi.product.name: Super Server dmi.product.sku: To be filled by O.E.M. dmi.product.version: 0123456789 dmi.sys.vendor: Supermicro version.compiz: compiz N/A version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.102-1ubuntu1~20.04.1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 20.2.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx N/A version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.20.9-2ubuntu1.2~20.04.2 version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:19.1.0-1 version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20200226-1 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.16-1 ** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug focal ubuntu -- ASPEED AST driver seems unstable in 20.04.2 LTS https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1924583 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. -- 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
