As an after thought. This could be mitigated by having the nvidia drivers' postinst check for nomodeset in /etc/defaults/grub and warn if it is present. It is already running grub-update.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1830000 Title: NVIDIA driver (390) does not allow progress to login screen Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Installing the nvidia-driver-390 package and disabling (or not) the nouveau drivers results in a system that superficially appears to busy hang before reaching the login screen, leaving only the fsck "/dev/sda1: clean,..." message on the screen. The machine is alive, and logging in remotely gives a hint at what is happening. The output of top shows that init and systemd are struggling with something: ``` top - 17:24:00 up 1 min, 1 user, load average: 2.76, 1.00, 0.36 Tasks: 188 total, 2 running, 106 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 17.0 us, 15.2 sy, 0.0 ni, 67.6 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.1 si, 0.0 st KiB Mem : 16238012 total, 15513832 free, 242248 used, 481932 buff/cache KiB Swap: 16001020 total, 16001020 free, 0 used. 15716900 avail Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1 root 20 0 225600 9312 6672 S 60.4 0.1 0:51.63 /sbin/init nosplash 797 root 20 0 71656 7180 5296 S 26.8 0.0 0:14.92 /lib/systemd/systemd-logind 1133 root 20 0 46368 3584 1976 R 13.9 0.0 0:12.01 /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd 795 root 20 0 1773200 30772 12548 S 13.2 0.2 0:11.71 /usr/lib/snapd/snapd 784 message+ 20 0 51464 6036 3988 S 12.9 0.0 0:11.15 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --s+ 308 root 19 -1 249904 120460 114260 S 10.7 0.7 0:10.60 /lib/systemd/systemd-journald 1132 root 20 0 46368 3584 1976 S 10.0 0.0 0:08.71 /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd 1134 root 20 0 46368 3260 1656 S 10.0 0.0 0:08.61 /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd 333 root 20 0 46368 4684 3084 S 5.0 0.0 0:04.25 /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd ``` Eventually, Xorg does manage to get a word in, but falls over, to try again repeatedly. ``` top - 16:52:36 up 2 min, 1 user, load average: 1.69, 1.04, 0.43 Tasks: 187 total, 2 running, 106 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 9.5 us, 3.7 sy, 0.0 ni, 85.6 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 1.2 si, 0.0 st KiB Mem : 16238012 total, 15457080 free, 278152 used, 502780 buff/cache KiB Swap: 16001020 total, 16001020 free, 0 used. 15680684 avail Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1821 root 20 0 312908 61228 20584 R 65.2 0.4 0:01.97 /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg vt1 -displayfd 3 -auth /run/user/121/gdm/Xauthority -b+ 806 root 20 0 71656 7200 5320 S 18.5 0.0 0:24.83 /lib/systemd/systemd-logind ``` A further hint comes from syslog which is spammed with systemd trying to start nvidia-persistenced, which is then killed. This happens hundreds of times while the machine is up. This except shows one instance. ``` May 22 16:34:52 cube systemd[1]: Starting NVIDIA Persistence Daemon... May 22 16:34:52 cube nvidia-persistenced: Verbose syslog connection opened May 22 16:34:52 cube nvidia-persistenced: Now running with user ID 123 and group ID 127 May 22 16:34:52 cube systemd[1]: Started NVIDIA Persistence Daemon. May 22 16:34:52 cube nvidia-persistenced: Started (31927) May 22 16:34:52 cube nvidia-persistenced: device 0000:01:00.0 - registered May 22 16:34:52 cube nvidia-persistenced: Local RPC service initialized May 22 16:34:52 cube nvidia-persistenced: Received signal 15 May 22 16:34:52 cube systemd[1]: Stopping NVIDIA Persistence Daemon... May 22 16:34:52 cube nvidia-persistenced: Socket closed. May 22 16:34:52 cube nvidia-persistenced: PID file unlocked. May 22 16:34:52 cube nvidia-persistenced: PID file closed. May 22 16:34:52 cube nvidia-persistenced: The daemon no longer has permission to remove its runtime data directory /var/run/nvidia-persistenced May 22 16:34:52 cube nvidia-persistenced: Shutdown (31927) May 22 16:34:52 cube systemd[1]: Stopped NVIDIA Persistence Daemon. ``` This is a fresh install of 18.04.2 (less than an hour old). If apport has not collected all the necessary details I'll post them after this. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu7.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-20.21~18.04.1-generic 4.18.20 Uname: Linux 4.18.0-20-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia .proc.driver.nvidia.gpus.0000.01.00.0: Error: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0000:01:00.0' .proc.driver.nvidia.registry: Binary: "" .proc.driver.nvidia.version: NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 390.116 Sun Jan 27 07:21:36 PST 2019 GCC version: gcc version 7.4.0 (Ubuntu 7.4.0-1ubuntu1~18.04) ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.6 Architecture: amd64 BootLog: Date: Wed May 22 17:24:31 2019 DistUpgraded: Fresh install DistroCodename: bionic DistroVariant: ubuntu DkmsStatus: nvidia, 390.116, 4.18.0-20-generic, x86_64: installed ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes GraphicsCard: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 530 [8086:191b] (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: CLEVO/KAPOK Computer HD Graphics 530 [1558:6540] NVIDIA Corporation GM204M [GeForce GTX 970M] [10de:13d8] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: CLEVO/KAPOK Computer GM204M [GeForce GTX 970M] [1558:6540] InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-05-22 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190210) Lsusb: Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 004: ID 5986:066d Acer, Inc Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0cf3:e300 Atheros Communications, Inc. Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1c7a:0603 LighTuning Technology Inc. Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub MachineType: Notebook P65_P67RGRERA ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_AU:en TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.18.0-20-generic root=UUID=d6da27fa-5d91-4240-b3c9-c7de06124a36 ro nomodeset quiet nosplash SourcePackage: xorg Symptom: display UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 01/27/2016 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: 1.05.13 dmi.board.asset.tag: Tag 12345 dmi.board.name: P65_P67RGRERA dmi.board.vendor: Notebook dmi.board.version: Not Applicable dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: Notebook dmi.chassis.version: N/A dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1.05.13:bd01/27/2016:svnNotebook:pnP65_P67RGRERA:pvrNotApplicable:rvnNotebook:rnP65_P67RGRERA:rvrNotApplicable:cvnNotebook:ct10:cvrN/A: dmi.product.family: Not Applicable dmi.product.name: P65_P67RGRERA dmi.product.sku: Not Applicable dmi.product.version: Not Applicable dmi.sys.vendor: Notebook version.compiz: compiz N/A version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.95-1~18.04.1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 18.2.8-0ubuntu0~18.04.2 version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 18.2.8-0ubuntu0~18.04.2 version.nvidia-graphics-drivers: nvidia-graphics-drivers-* N/A version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core N/A version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati N/A version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel N/A version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau N/A To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-390/+bug/1830000/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
