Public bug reported:
I've experience this on two separate computers with two different nvidia
cards. No optimus or Intel cards in the equation. I'm running Yakkety
16.10 with a (pure) and up-to-date Ubuntu Gnome from the gnome3-staging
PPA.
Activating the proprietary NVIDIA drivers is probably the first thing
anyone does, if he's got an NVIDIA card. After all, that's the point of
getting one in the first place. But GMD3, the _only_ display manager
installed with Ubuntu Gnome, doesn't work with _any_ of the Nvidia
drivers required by the yakkety 4.8 kernel. (Nvidia must be 367 or
higher, 364 doesn't cut it anymore.) The result is that anyone (i.e.
everyone) who tries to activate the proprietary drivers won't be able to
boot past a black screen devoid of useful information.
I've managed to temporarily bypass this inconvenience by switching to
lightdm, but people installing Ubuntu Gnome can't be counted on to try
this or even know about this. This really should work out of the box
(and after activating the drivers).
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: gdm3 3.20.1-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-21.23-generic 4.8.0
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Tue Oct 11 14:37:28 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-10-07 (4 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Alpha amd64 (20161006)
SourcePackage: gdm3
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: gdm3 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug gnome3-ppa release-critical third-party-packages
ubuntu-gnome yakkety
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Computer never gets to the GMD3 login screen when nvidia- is installed
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