However maybe the make.log won't help. Because you appear to have a working kernel driver.
I can also see this failure, which is important: Jun 17 21:09:53 little-black-box gnome-shell[1367]: Unable to initialize Clutter: Unable to initialize the Clutter backend: no available drivers found. Jun 17 21:09:53 little-black-box gnome-shell[1367]: Unable to initialize Clutter. which would/should be related to: Jun 17 21:09:53 little-black-box /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1434]: (II) NVIDIA(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section Jun 17 21:09:53 little-black-box /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1434]: "Default Screen Section" for depth/fbbpp 24/32 Jun 17 21:09:53 little-black-box /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1434]: (==) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (==) framebuffer bpp 32 Jun 17 21:09:53 little-black-box /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1434]: (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888 Jun 17 21:09:53 little-black-box /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1434]: (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor Jun 17 21:09:53 little-black-box /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1434]: (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) Jun 17 21:09:53 little-black-box /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1434]: (II) Applying OutputClass "nvidia" options to /dev/dri/card0 Jun 17 21:09:53 little-black-box /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1434]: (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration" Jun 17 21:09:53 little-black-box /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1434]: (**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling 2D acceleration Jun 17 21:09:53 little-black-box systemd[1]: Starting NVIDIA Persistence Daemon... Jun 17 21:09:53 little-black-box /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1434]: (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce GTX 770 (GK104) at PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0) Jun 17 21:09:53 little-black-box /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1434]: (--) NVIDIA(0): Memory: 4194304 kBytes Jun 17 21:09:53 little-black-box /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1434]: (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 80.04.c3.00.72 Jun 17 21:09:53 little-black-box /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1434]: (II) NVIDIA(0): Detected PCI Express Link width: 16X Jun 17 21:09:53 little-black-box /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1434]: (II) NVIDIA(0): Validated MetaModes: Jun 17 21:09:53 little-black-box nvidia-persistenced[1439]: Verbose syslog connection opened Jun 17 21:09:53 little-black-box /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1434]: (II) NVIDIA(0): "NULL" Jun 17 21:09:53 little-black-box /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1434]: (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 640 x 480 Jun 17 21:09:53 little-black-box /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1434]: (WW) NVIDIA(0): Unable to get display device for DPI computation. Jun 17 21:09:53 little-black-box /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1434]: (==) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (75, 75); computed from built-in default Jun 17 21:09:53 little-black-box /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1434]: (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "NULL" Jun 17 21:09:53 little-black-box /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1434]: (==) NVIDIA(0): Disabling shared memory pixmaps Jun 17 21:09:53 little-black-box /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1434]: (==) NVIDIA(0): Backing store enabled Jun 17 21:09:53 little-black-box /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1434]: (==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled Jun 17 21:09:53 little-black-box /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1434]: (==) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled Jun 17 21:09:53 little-black-box /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1434]: (II) Loading sub module "dri2" Jun 17 21:09:53 little-black-box /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1434]: (II) LoadModule: "dri2" Jun 17 21:09:53 little-black-box /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1434]: (II) Module "dri2" already built-in Jun 17 21:09:53 little-black-box /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1434]: (II) NVIDIA(0): [DRI2] Setup complete Jun 17 21:09:53 little-black-box /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1434]: (II) NVIDIA(0): [DRI2] VDPAU driver: nvidia But that looks like everything is working. ** Tags added: nvidia ** Summary changed: - GDM no longer presents GUI login Ubuntu 18.04 + [nvidia] GDM no longer presents GUI login Ubuntu 18.04 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to mutter in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1777378 Title: [nvidia] GDM no longer presents GUI login Ubuntu 18.04 Status in gdm3 package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in mutter package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Background: Did a clean install of Ubuntu 18.04, standard Gnome desktop. Used nVidia proprietary drivers from Ubuntu repo. Worked quite well for over two weeks. When booting up on Friday 15th June, 2018 no longer had a GUI login screen. There was just a few lines in tty1. Can still login to other terminals and through SSH. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: gdm3 3.28.2-0ubuntu1.2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-23.25-generic 4.15.18 Uname: Linux 4.15.0-23-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Jun 17 22:53:22 2018 InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-05-20 (28 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gdm3 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) mtime.conffile..etc.gdm3.custom.conf: 2018-05-31T00:51:08.204556 --- ProblemType: Bug ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2 Architecture: amd64 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-05-20 (28 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426) NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia Package: gdm3 3.28.2-0ubuntu1.2 PackageArchitecture: amd64 ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-23.25-generic 4.15.18 Tags: bionic Uname: Linux 4.15.0-23-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: 2018-06-18T00:27:55.234654 --- ProblemType: Bug ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2 Architecture: amd64 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-05-20 (28 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426) NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia Package: mutter PackageArchitecture: amd64 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-23.25-generic 4.15.18 Tags: bionic Uname: Linux 4.15.0-23-generic x86_64 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: _MarkForUpload: True mtime.conffile..etc.gdm3.custom.conf: 2018-06-18T00:27:55.234654 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm3/+bug/1777378/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
