I performed a fresh install of 13.10 64-bit on my Dell E6520, and was running into this freeze issue at the login screen or even shortly after logging in. Eventually, a terminal like screen would appear with nouveau error messages. Much like comment #46 above, I was able to do the following:
1) Opened Virtual Terminal, using <ctrl>+<alt>+F3 2) Logged in at the prompt 3) sudo apt-get install nvidia-319 (which is the latest version that I can see) During the nvidia driver download and install, my display would switch back to either the frozen login screen or the black screen with the stream of nouveau errors. I would just hit <ctrl>+<alt>+F3 again to continue watching the installation process. Once the install was finished, I rebooted, using the command: sudo reboot. I did not remove nouveau. It's only been about 8 hours, but I haven't hit the freeze issue again yet... fingers crossed. I'm attaching the nouveau messages grep'd from my syslog, in case it helps. ** Attachment added: "nouveau.log" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/1184451/+attachment/3923911/+files/nouveau.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg-server in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1184451 Title: Ubuntu 13.10 random screen freeze while Normal OS activites Status in “xorg-server” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “xserver-xorg-video-nouveau” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I have recently, re-installed fresh ubuntu 13.10 distribution release. But everything worked fine. until recently i had strange problem of my display screen getting freezed randomly; but no response to either mouse/keyboard. But i want to point it out; it happens randomly and is not specific ? Other day, i had music player playing in background, but screen freezed. but my music was still running. Kindly note, i used multiple monitor setup and same issue of screen freeze also cropped up. I,am not sure, whether it is bug ? thanks for the expertise support. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/1184451/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
