This seems to be occurred after upgrading nvidia-driver to the latest available version (455) from "Additional drivers" menu. Reverting back to nvidia-driver 450 and the freezing issue is gone.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1903308 Title: gnome-shell freezes and restarts itself after login Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Dear developers, After clean installation of Ubuntu 20.10, gnome-shell always freezes and then restarts itself when I try to open any application for the first time after a reboot. Also I can not find any crash log related to this occurrence. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10 Package: gnome-shell 3.38.1-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-26.27-generic 5.8.14 Uname: Linux 5.8.0-26-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu50 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: skip CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Fri Nov 6 17:21:12 2020 DisplayManager: gdm3 InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-11-06 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" - Release amd64 (20201022) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.38.1-1ubuntu1 SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1903308/+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
