The same workaround seems to be working for bug 1798790. Although that is about the proprietary Nvidia driver and this one is about nouveau (which also means Jeffery seems to be commenting on the wrong bug). Not sure if we can or should merge the two bugs.
** Tags added: nvidia -- 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/1796614 Title: [nouveau] Ubuntu 18.10 boots to a blank screen with a blinking cursor Status in gdm3 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in mutter package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/issues/432 --- Running startx starts X just fine, but at login I just get a blank screen with a blinking cursor. If I hit Alt+F<n> I can get a console which allows me to login and run 'startx' at which point Gnome starts normally after entering my keychain unlock password. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10 Package: xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu8 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-8.9-generic 4.18.7 Uname: Linux 4.18.0-8-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu11 Architecture: amd64 BootLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/boot.log' CompositorRunning: None CurrentDesktop: GNOME Date: Sun Oct 7 22:59:13 2018 DistUpgraded: Fresh install DistroCodename: cosmic DistroVariant: ubuntu ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, including running git bisection searches GraphicsCard: Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0877] NVIDIA Corporation GP104M [GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile] [10de:1be1] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Dell GP104M [GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile] [1028:0877] InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-10-07 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Beta amd64 (20180927) Lsusb: Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1bcf:2b8c Sunplus Innovation Technology Inc. Bus 001 Device 002: ID 187c:0550 Alienware Corporation Bus 001 Device 004: ID 8087:0025 Intel Corp. Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub MachineType: Alienware Alienware 17 R5 ProcEnviron: TERM=linux PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.18.0-8-generic root=UUID=c3d3798c-6179-472a-ba82-55ef94f4d382 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=1 SourcePackage: xorg Symptom: display Title: Xorg crash UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 08/10/2018 dmi.bios.vendor: Alienware dmi.bios.version: 1.5.0 dmi.board.name: Alienware 17 R5 dmi.board.vendor: Alienware dmi.board.version: A00 dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: Alienware dmi.chassis.version: Not Specified dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAlienware:bvr1.5.0:bd08/10/2018:svnAlienware:pnAlienware17R5:pvr1.5.0:rvnAlienware:rnAlienware17R5:rvrA00:cvnAlienware:ct10:cvrNotSpecified: dmi.product.family: Alienware dmi.product.name: Alienware 17 R5 dmi.product.sku: 0877 dmi.product.version: 1.5.0 dmi.sys.vendor: Alienware version.compiz: compiz N/A version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.94-1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 18.2.1-1ubuntu1 version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx N/A version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.20.1-3ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:18.1.0-1 version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20171229-1build1 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.15-3 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm3/+bug/1796614/+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
