Oh, Ubuntu does boot on such hardware just fine. And seeing how well it
works I'd feel guilty of wasting money and polluting the environment
when buying newer hardware.
It does not boot all up into native Wayland. Nevertheless, one can run
X11 just fine.
How to turn Wayland off? Key is to disable it in /etc/gdm3/custom.conf.
Code ('WaylandEnable=false') is already there, just commented out.
Accordingly, to get the hardware booting all up to the desktop, proceed
as following (written from head, so actual wording might be slightly
different):
- Turn the PC on.
- As soon as the Grub boot selection screen appears, use up and down arrows on
the keyboard to select 'Ubuntu (recovery mode)'.
- Hit 'Enter'.
- After a while, another selection screen appears. Select 'Enable Network',
which happens to be a simple way to re-mount the boot disk in read-write mode.
- Back on the same selection screen, select a root shell.
- Being at the root shell, enter 'vi /etc/gdm3/custom.conf'.
- Using arrow keys, navigate to the line reading '#WaylandEnable=false'.
- Make sure the cursor is over this first '#'.
- Hit the 'x' key once, the '#' should disappear.
- Enter ':wq'. This gets you back to the root shell.
- Type 'reboot' and hit Enter.
>From there on, your hardware should boot all into the desktop as if it
had been the case all the time.
Another way to get this file edited is to boot another OS on that
hardware or to physically connect the disk elsewhere, of course.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1727356
Title:
Wayland sessions (including the login screen itself) don't start up on
older Intel GPUs (pre-Sandy Bridge)
Status in GNOME Shell:
Confirmed
Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Status in mutter package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
Wayland sessions (including the login screen itself) don't start up on
older Intel GPUs.
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Workaround:
Ctrl+Alt+F4, log in, edit /etc/gdm3/custom.conf and uncomment the line:
#WaylandEnable=false
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$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 17.10
Release: 17.10
Upgraded from 17.04 today.
Steps to reproduce:
- Start the PC or log out/end session in case it's running with an Xorg
desktop already.
- Attempt to log in, using 'Ubuntu'
Expected to happen:
Desktop appears.
Actually happening:
5 seconds of black screen, then the login screen appears again.
Partial diagnosis:
- Logging in using 'Ubuntu on Xorg' works fine and as expected.
- Extracted a syslog of such a failed attempt, see attached file.
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ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
DisplayManager: gdm3
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-05-04 (539 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64
(20160420.1)
Package: gnome-shell 3.26.1-0ubuntu5
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
Tags: artful package-from-proposed third-party-packages
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-10-25 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dialout dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo www-data
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