It's a really stupid bug, with the proprietary nvidia driver Libmutter crashes. But I can still log into gnome-shell by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2 logging in via tty2 and then issuing startx. Weirdly everything works from there.
Excerpt of syslog around the error: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dec 16 21:24:03 jupiter /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1444]: /sbin/prime-offload: 30: /sbin/prime-offload: cannot create /var/log/prime-offload.log: Permission denied Dec 16 21:24:03 jupiter systemd[1439]: Started D-Bus User Message Bus. Dec 16 21:24:03 jupiter dbus-daemon[1462]: Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' Dec 16 21:24:03 jupiter dbus-daemon[1462]: Activating via systemd: service name='org.a11y.Bus' unit='at-spi-dbus-bus.service' Dec 16 21:24:03 jupiter systemd[1439]: Starting Accessibility services bus... Dec 16 21:24:03 jupiter dbus-daemon[1462]: Successfully activated service 'org.a11y.Bus' Dec 16 21:24:03 jupiter systemd[1439]: Started Accessibility services bus. Dec 16 21:24:03 jupiter at-spi-bus-launcher[1464]: Activating service name='org.a11y.atspi.Registry' Dec 16 21:24:03 jupiter at-spi-bus-launcher[1464]: Successfully activated service 'org.a11y.atspi.Registry' Dec 16 21:24:03 jupiter org.a11y.atspi.Registry[1469]: SpiRegistry daemon is running with well-known name - org.a11y.atspi.Registry Dec 16 21:24:03 jupiter at-spi-bus-laun[1464]: Failed to register client: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files Dec 16 21:24:03 jupiter kernel: [ 23.913800] gnome-shell[1480]: segfault at 14 ip 00007fb0f4ebb725 sp 00007ffefa786310 error 4 in libmutter.so.0.0.0[7fb0f4e7f000+ff000] Dec 16 21:24:03 jupiter gnome-session[1458]: gnome-session-binary[1458]: WARNING: Application 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' killed by signal 11 Dec 16 21:24:03 jupiter gnome-session-binary[1458]: WARNING: Application 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' killed by signal 11 Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter kernel: [ 24.162037] gnome-shell[1490]: segfault at 14 ip 00007fe700928725 sp 00007fff61a27210 error 4 in libmutter.so.0.0.0[7fe7008ec000+ff000] Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter gnome-session-binary[1458]: WARNING: Application 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' killed by signal 11 Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter gnome-session[1458]: gnome-session-binary[1458]: WARNING: Application 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' killed by signal 11 Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter gnome-session[1458]: gnome-session-binary[1458]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' respawning too quickly Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter gnome-session[1458]: gnome-session-binary[1458]: CRITICAL: We failed, but the fail whale is dead. Sorry.... Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter gnome-session-binary[1458]: Unrecoverable failure in required component org.gnome.Shell.desktop Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter gnome-session-binary[1458]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' respawning too quickly Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter gnome-session-binary[1458]: CRITICAL: We failed, but the fail whale is dead. Sorry.... Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter org.a11y.atspi.Registry[1469]: XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0" Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter org.a11y.atspi.Registry[1469]: after 21 requests (21 known processed) with 0 events remaining. Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1444]: (**) Option "fd" "25" Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1444]: (**) Option "fd" "28" Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1444]: (**) Option "fd" "29" Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1444]: (**) Option "fd" "30" Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1444]: (**) Option "fd" "31" Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1444]: (II) UnloadModule: "libinput" Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1444]: (II) systemd-logind: releasing fd for 13:66 Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1444]: (II) UnloadModule: "libinput" Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1444]: (II) systemd-logind: releasing fd for 13:76 Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1444]: (II) UnloadModule: "libinput" Dec 16 21:24:04 jupiter /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1444]: (II) systemd-logind: releasing fd for 13:67 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1632322 Title: Computer never gets to the GDM3 login screen when nvidia- is installed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm3/+bug/1632322/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
